[학술논문] Historiography and the Remaking of North Korea’s Ideology in the Age of Globalization: Interpreting the Revised Edition of Ryeoksa sajeon
This paper intends to reappraise the relationship between historiography and politics in North Korea by analyzing the revised edition of Ryeoksa sajeon (Dictionary of History). Published almost 30 years after its initial publication in 1971, the new edition embodies how desperately and earnestly North Korea has struggled to remake its own imagery and national identity in order to cope with a series...
[학위논문] 남북한 고대사 인식 차이에 대한 계량적 분석 연구 : 북한의 민족주의적 고대사 인식을 중심으로
...whether it is excessive to attribute all differences in historical views solely to North Korea’s biased historical perspective. Without a detailed analysis of which aspects of North Korean historiography have been distorted, by what causes, and to what extent, it is questionable to indiscriminately attribute all the causes to a particular ideological standpoint. Therefore, this paper specifically...
[학술논문] “The Mystery of the Century:” Lay Buddhist Monk Villages (Chaegasŭngch’on) Near Korea’s Northernmost Border, 1600s–1960s
...their long history and, more importantly, their monastic identity and Buddhist lifestyle, narratives about these communities are almost absent in the historiography of Korean Buddhism. The absence of a written history is ascribed to that historiography’s privileged focus on the influential figures, doctrines, texts, and schools that contributed to the protection of the state. Colonial experiences...
[학술논문] 反식민주의 역사학에서 反역사학으로 - 동아시아의 ‘戰後 역사학’과 북한의 역사 서술 -
...independence of former colonies referring to the historical materialism, as ‘post-war historiography’, and understood the historiography of North Korea in the context of them. From the first stage of nation building, North Korea started writing the history of Korea newly to overcome the historiography of colonialism as the theories of stagnation and heteronomy. And North Korea succeeded in...
[학술논문] Marxism and History in Twentieth Century East Asia
...(China, North Korea) or the anti-communist massacres and crushing of opposition on the pro-US side (Taiwan, South Korea, Japan). This article further argues that a revival of critical Marxist historiography can contribute to a better understanding of the historical issues of twentieth century East Asia by stressing the social, political economic and geo-political dimensions that have frequently been...