Research Article
A Study on Aspects of Local Confucians at the end of the Japanese Colonial Era and Discourse of the Orient in Chinese Poetry: Focusing on 『Hwang Gun Wi Moon Si (Imperial Army Encouragement Poem)』 by the An-byeon Confucian Scholars-
서강대학교 동아연구소
Published: January 2013 · Vol. 65, No. 0 · pp. 301-338
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33334/sieas.2013.32.2.301
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Abstract
『Hwang Gun Wi Moon Si』 is the collection of poems all written in Chinese which the Confucian scholars spontaneously composed to encourage the imperial army which took part in the Sinjo-Japanese War in 1938 and prayed victory of them. The collection includes Chinese poems of 69 confucian scholars who were belonging to the An-byeon confucians, and all of them were composed by the style of Chinese verse with seven syllables to the line. The considerable number of confucian scholars who contained their poems had a career as a governor, a member of large regional assemble, a head of a township, a member of township assembly or a member of school evaluation assembly. Further more the considerable number of local worthies or influentials who were involved in various associations such as a financial association, irrigation association, and fruit association in their area also created a poem in the name of the An-byeon confucians. 『Hwang Gun Wi Moon Si』 which they left speak one aspect of pro-Japanese Chinese literature at the end of the Japanese colonial era which the pro-Japanese ideology and literal authority of Chinese classics were included by administrators and influentials of each area as literature of the aspect and surroundings of the literal world of the Chosun Dynasty which shows an aspect of double writing in ‘Japanese-Korean’.
