이시항의 삶을 통해 본 서북지역 엘리트의 ‘미시사적’ 이해

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article is a critical analysis of Sun Joo Kim’s book, Voice from the North: Resurrecting regional identity through the life and work of Yi Sihang (1672~1736). The author, based upon a steady interest in the Korean peninsula’s Northwest region during the Joseon dynasty period, focused its examination upon a person named Yi Sihang, who was one of the representative ‘local elites’ of the Korean peninsula’s Pyeong’an-do region. The author tried to examine the reality of the Pyeong’an-do province from the perspective of the people of the Northwest region, and analyze the nature of the Joseon society in its second half from a microscopic perspective.
The Northwest region of Joseon, the existence of ‘local elites,’ and a methodology based upon microscopic examination, are all a bit unfamiliar to the Korean historians. Even the focus of this book, an individual named Yi Shi-hang, is a figure not that well known. It is indeed a bold move to study the life and writings of this local elite. A new and systemic approach to a relatively unknown historical figure (as well as a subject) seems more than enough to inspire studies in Korea. Hopefully it will encourage future Korean studies to delve deeper into the Joseon period’s Northwest region and the region’s local elites.
Yet in spite of the meaning of this book, there are some problems that would have to be addressed. First, although this book proclaimed that it will take on a microscopic approach on the Northwest region’s local elites, in actual discussion the author seems to be more resorting to macroscopic analyses or at least depending on previous analysis of such sort. A rather lengthy discussion of the Party Conflicts is one of those examples. Second, chapters three and four, where the author analyzed the changes Yi Sihang displayed in his recollections concerning the 「Gwanseo Byeonmu-so」 office and a figure named Kim Gyeongseo, in which he supposedly revealed his so-called ‘regional identity,’ actually rather lack a prudent and sufficient attention to the reality of the time.
These can be cited as this book’s problems, but nothing of them could not be rectified with further studies in the future. The worth of this book is based upon the fact that it attempted a new approach to a new academic topic.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 들어가며
• 1. 연구목적과 연구방법
• 2. 지역 · 가문 · 이시항
• 3. 중요한 사건들
• 맺음말
• 참고문헌
• Abstract

참고문헌 (Reference)

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