A Trial of "Modern" State based on the Confucian idea: Governing Structure of the Korean Empire and the Korean society

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370841
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of Asia and Africa
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: OGAWARA Hiroyuki 同志社大学, グローバル地域文化学部, 准教授 (10609465)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 趙 景達 千葉大学, 大学院人文科学研究院, 教授 (70188499) ; 愼 蒼宇 法政大学, 社会学部, 准教授 (80468222)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 朝鮮史 / 日朝関係史 / 東アジア / 日本史 / 儒教

Outline of Final Research Achievements

What kind of governance structure was the Korean empire that was destroyed by the Japan's Annexation of Korea? That is an important issue not only in Korean modern history, but also in history of Japan-Korea relations. Currently, the historical evaluation made to the Korean empire is based on a modernistic standpoint in both Japan and Korea. And historical facts that can not give modernity were missed. In fact, the Korean empire tried to rule over based on the Confucianism principle from a democratic position, but such a governance plan can not be evaluated sufficiently from a modernistic standpoint. In this study, we will dynamically position the process of establishing the Korean Empire from the correlation with Korean society and make a historical evaluation.

Free Research Field

歴史学