一般論文] 한성도서주식회사의 출판활동과 식민지 책시장의 역학

Abstract

This article is an attempt to consider how much freedom of publishing the colonial publishing organization was able to have under the structural pressure exerted by the colonial book market. For this purpose, this article focused on Hanseongdoseo Co., Ltd. Hansungdoseo Co., Ltd. was the first publishing organization founded as a corporate organization. However, the structural pressure on the book market gradually increased due to various external factors such as the censorship of the Japanese Government-General of Korea, the disallowance of reservation publishing, imperialism of knowledge culture, material shortages, and the policy of eradicating the Korean language. The literary centralism of Chosun language books, which reached its peak in the late 1930s, was the result. Hansungdoseo Co., Ltd. was also not free from that pressure. However, Hansungdoseo Co., Ltd. tried to adhere to its own consistent publishing policy. In short, the uniqueness of Hanseongdoseo Co., Ltd.’s publishing activities, and furthermore, the freedom of publishing pursued by the colonial publishing organization, must first be found in the fact that literature was not completely brought to the fore during the period of literary centralism of Chosun language books.