Yi Young’s Argument over the Subject of Waegu and the Present Task
2018; Q12607016; Volume: 122; Linguagem: Inglês
10.38080/crh.2018.02.122.474
ISSN1599-1172
Autores Tópico(s)Asian Culture and Media Studies
ResumoThis paper is to research current status and perspectives of Korean Waegu(倭寇) study focusing on the study of professor Yi Young(李領) represented Waegu Studies in Korea.BR With a group of Japanese scholars, Yi have long disputed over the subject of Waegu in the late Koryo Dynasty in 14th Century. Such Japanese scholars as Tanaga Takeo(田中健夫) continued to assert that the subject of Waegu was not Japanese alone but Koryo people in alliance with Japanese. Yi proved that their assertion was ill founded with reasons through more resources, and suggested that the subject of Waegu in the late Koryo Dynasty, especially since 1350 was Japanese naval forces controled by the local government and regional powerful family of Tsushima(對馬島) and Matsuuratou(松浦黨) as group of warriors of Kyushu(九州). Because Waegu since 1350 is more frequent and enormous like never before, more organised and powerful that it beat Koryo government army.BR In his recent study, Yi started perceiving Waegu as being analogous to Corsair in the western history in that pirates hired by state or government, and he was associating Waegu with formation and collapse of Pax Mongolica. That is to say, Yi understands Waegu in the change of the East Asia international political order, and goes further and looks for a way to research Waegu and Corsair together. Through this way, Yi was beginning to get over national historic view and secure the global-marine historic view of understanding Waegu.BR
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