李始榮의 『感時漫語』 硏究

The study of 『Kamsimanuh: The essay to discuss historical events』

『Kamsimanuh: The essay to discuss historical events』(感時漫語) is a book of historical review, which was written by Lee-si young(李始榮) who was one of leading persons in provisional government of Korea and the first vice president of Republic of Korea. Written in classical chinese letters, This book was published in 1934. seventies pages, twenty-three chapter, and came out in Shanghai, china, 『Kamsimanuh』 is not written on a definite standard. the first motivation to publication of this book is to refute 『Chosun』(朝鮮) which was written by Huang-yan pei(黃炎培), one of famous pedagogists in modern China. Came out in 1929, 『Chosun』 was not only for the purpose of bringing chinese people to an awareness of the realities of international situations, but based on the feeling of crisis that china would be ‘the second Korea' Based on materials of Japanese scholars and the Japanese government general in Korea, Huang-yan pei could`t help distort the history of Korea and the realities of Korean people in 『Chosun』. Because of such a reason, Lee-si young wrote 『Kamsimanuh』 to criticize 『Chosun』 Despite of smaller quantity, 『Kamsimanuh』 shows various historical facts related to the period from Ancient times to Modern times in Korea and Lee-Si young's comments on them. Lee-si young contradicted Huang-yan pei whose work, 『Choson』, had distorted Korean history. So, Lee-Si young emphasized the originality and the subjecthood of Korean history as well as the Korean quality. But this hadn't a single purpose of this essay. In Chapter 20 ‘a China's instruction', Lee-Si young said that both China and Korea were being suffered from Japan, and Korea had already lost the sovereignty, thus China needed to establish the co-anti-Japan battle line with Korea. In 『Kamsimanuh』, several works written by Kim-Gyo hun(金敎獻) were cited. Lee-Si young especially often referred to Kim Gyo-hun's works in historical section of ancient Korea. This means that he strongly got influenced from the historical cognition of (大倧敎: a Korean typical religion which originated from the religion named Dong-Hak). So 『Kamsimanuh』 has several important meanings as follows. ① This book is a historical work which put the basis on the historical cognition of and was published in China. It's more meaningful that this is a first one which contradicted chinese works related Korea history in the eyes of Korean ② 『Kamsimanuh』 was written by Lee-Si young, a important official of the Provisional Government of Korea. Only Lee-si young, right-nationalists who led the Provisional Government, wrote a historical work. So we can confirm the historical cognition of right-nationalist leaders through this book. ③ This book extends the limit of nationalist history more widely.