청말 벌링게임사절단에 관한 연구현황 소개 -글로벌 히스토리의 관점에 주목하여-

Abstract

Anson Burlingame was the first American minister accredited to Beijing and the first official envoy of the Qing government to Western countries in 1868. The Burlingame mission visited 11 Western countries, and relevant records of their activities have remained to this day. Since its wide scope of activity had a negligible effect on the history of many countries, the Burlingame Mission has been studied in various fields of international academic circles. The article deals with the studies and trends of research on the Burlingame mission from a global historical perspective and organizes them by field. The article divides the research fields of the Burlingame mission into three categories. The first field is the history of politics and diplomacy. Anson Burlingame arrived in Washington, D.C., and as a representative of the Chinese side, signed The Burlingame Treaty with the United States, which greatly affected the politics and diplomacy of both countries. The research trend of the treaty reflects changes in political and diplomatic relations between China and the United States, which shows the varying tendency of Sino-American relations. The second one is cultural history. Zhigang(志剛) and Zhang Deyi(張德彝), members of the Qing’s first diplomatic corps, wrote journals that provide a rich description of Western countries in the nineteenth century, which made the journals attracted as one of the areas of the cultural history research. It is remarkable that the journals have been studied from the maritime history, one of the global historical perspectives. Last but not least, the third one is comparative history. Some scholars have been interested in studying comparing the Burlingame mission with the Iwakura mission of Japan in that both of them were sent to the West around the same time. In particular, analyzing English-language newspapers, the studies, which read the viewpoint of Western countries regarding the missions of both countries at that time and compared both missions from the maritime history as well, opened a new horizon for the research of the East Asian missions. It can be evaluated that these studies revealed the value of the Burlingame Mission in global historical research and offered the possibility of interdisciplinary studies on this subject.