학설의 유령 - 당대 중국 동아시아사 인식 중의 ‘임나일본부설’

Abstract

If a theory is still held by some scholars even when it has been denied through empirical research, it should be just a ghost of theory. A typical example of it is the ‘theory of Japanese Mimana Government(任那日本府說)’ formed in Meiji Japan, which claims that Yamato Japan ruled the southern part of the Korean peninsula.<BR>After World War II, this theory was gradually abandoned in the academia in Japan, South Korea, and North Korea, followed by the academia in the Western countries. However, contemporary Chinese college textbooks (World History, East Asian History, and Japanese History) included the gist of this theory thereby seriously distorting the ancient history of East Asia. This essay explored the origin and genealogy of this perception and analyzed the causes of the persistence of ghost of this theory taking notice of changes in the viewpoint on the westing of Japan and the easting of China.<BR>Through the foregoing, this author emphasized that the viewpoint of China to see the westing of Japan as ‘invasion’ rather than ‘conquest’ was formed early following the Soviet Union’s version of world history, and China became to require this theory continuously as a historical example of ‘invader’ Japan to justify the easting of China.