중국 ‘항미원조전쟁’ 기억의 소환과 굴절 - ‘인민전쟁’ 개념을 중심으로

Abstract

The current Sino-US conflict brings the memory of The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (hereafter ‘The War’), which has been marginalized for many decades, back to the center of official political discourse. However, the newly returned narrative of The War faces a significant dilemma. As a trenchant event amidst the heist of the Cold War, the political gist of The War lies in the fact that it is a successor to the CCP’s ‘people’s war’ such as the Anti-Japanese War and the Liberation War. On the contrary, the narrative of The War in the 21st century no longer includes the concept of ‘people’s war’. Furthermore, it covertly reconstructs the political meaning of The War by stripping it of remnants of ‘people’s war’ and emphasizing party over people.