조선의 ‘중화문명국’ 인식과 정치적 의미 고찰 = The understanding on the Joseon-centrism and its political significance

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

By the mid 17th century, collapsed Ming dynasty that ruled China proper, Joseon dynasty declared itself the centre country of the world. And then it began to build the various symbols that succeed the legitimacy of sino-centrism. Joseon dynasty constructed ‘Daebo-dan’[the alter for repaying the kindness of Ming dynasty], and edited history of Song dynasty and Ming dynasty. Some historian define it as ‘Joseoncentrism’ and gave the significance to it, others underestimate it as a ideal ultra-nationalism.
Even though they had a lively argument on ‘Joseon-centrism’ and drew attention to academic circles, but had a critical boundaries that did not understand its political aspect. For, actions related to ‘Joseoncentrism’ of Joseon dynasty, in those times, aimed to many political purpose. And we have to consider ‘Joseon-centrism’ in political aspects, because political thoughts does generally reflect real politics. But almost korean historians understood ‘Joseon-centrism’ as an ideology, without consideration its political traits.
For this reason, this article aimed to understand ‘Joseon-centrism’ on political views beyond of historical. This studied that why Joseon dynasty declared the centre country that should be perceived as a model of civilization, and that how it tried to perform its duty as the centre country of the world.