A Study on Change of China’s Cultural Strategy

Abstract

Both Korea and China have been progressing various cultural exchanges bound with ‘Confusian cultural areas’ or ‘Chinese character culture areas’ for a long history before modern times. The cultural exchanges of both countries which share ‘the cultural genes’ focused on buddhism, Confusianism, Chinese character, and law-code had such close and various contents and styles that we can’t find precedents easily in human history. After modern times, with the change of East Asian and international situation, though the cultural exchanges of both countries didn’t have the same width and depth as those before modern times, the exchanges in the fields of person, thought, and academy were being progressed with taking the identical national task that they should establish the modern nation against imperialism. After independence and especially ‘the Korean war’, as Korea was divided under Cold-war system and China was converted to the socialist nation, the cultural exchanges of Korea and China stopped completely. With the Korea-China diplomatic relation in 1992, however, the relationship of both countries was normalized and therefore the overall cultural exchanges started, continuing until today.