韓國의 冷戰文化 形成과 文化大革命 ― 대중 언론매체와 학계의 문화대혁명 인식에 대한 분석을 통하여 (Understanding of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Formation of Cold War Culture in Korea)

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초록

Interest in the Chinese Cultural Revolution on the part of the mass media and China experts has played an important role in forming Koreans’ perception on Communist China during the Cold War ear. The mass media perceived the Revolution as an abnormal power struggle and created such negative images as ‘unreasonable, anti-civilized, aggressive and expansionist Communist China’ and ‘unstable Communist China riddled with confusion, civil war and disintegration.’ Experts’ mainstream perspectives were not much different from the perspectives presented by the mass media. Like the mass media, they understood it based on an angle of power struggles.
In 1970, the mass media interest in the Revolution was drastically reduced, but China experts conducted studies on it in earnest. As the Revolution became the subject to studies, experts’ perspectives on the Revolution and Communist China have been clarified. As the existing theory on the Revolution from the perspectives of power struggle is academically systematized, the Revolution was defined as an abnormal purge movement led by Mao Zedong and an incident reflecting the characteristics of the political system of a totalitarian state. And the Communist China was regarded as a totalitarian state and dictatorship characterized by abnormal power struggles. The Revolution was not confined to spreading, reproducing and enhancing an anti-communist cold war perception on Communist China in Korea. Although it was a non-mainstream idea, the Revolution was idealized as an experiment to overcome existing capitalism and socialism offering a basis for criticism against the Korean society where anti-communist cold war ideology prevails. Studies on the Revolution contributed to creating a different perception on Communist China from a mainstream idea viewing the state as the subject to negation and threat, which is summed up as a reformist model. This perception on China reflected diversified intellectual and social activities by Korean intellectuals who pushed for departure from the Cold War era and their social consciousness.

영어초록

Interest in the Chinese Cultural Revolution on the part of the mass media and China experts has played an important role in forming Koreans’ perception on Communist China during the Cold War ear. The mass media perceived the Revolution as an abnormal power struggle and created such negative images as ‘unreasonable, anti-civilized, aggressive and expansionist Communist China’ and ‘unstable Communist China riddled with confusion, civil war and disintegration.’ Experts’ mainstream perspectives were not much different from the perspectives presented by the mass media. Like the mass media, they understood it based on an angle of power struggles.
In 1970, the mass media interest in the Revolution was drastically reduced, but China experts conducted studies on it in earnest. As the Revolution became the subject to studies, experts’ perspectives on the Revolution and Communist China have been clarified. As the existing theory on the Revolution from the perspectives of power struggle is academically systematized, the Revolution was defined as an abnormal purge movement led by Mao Zedong and an incident reflecting the characteristics of the political system of a totalitarian state. And the Communist China was regarded as a totalitarian state and dictatorship characterized by abnormal power struggles. The Revolution was not confined to spreading, reproducing and enhancing an anti-communist cold war perception on Communist China in Korea. Although it was a non-mainstream idea, the Revolution was idealized as an experiment to overcome existing capitalism and socialism offering a basis for criticism against the Korean society where anti-communist cold war ideology prevails. Studies on the Revolution contributed to creating a different perception on Communist China from a mainstream idea viewing the state as the subject to negation and threat, which is summed up as a reformist model. This perception on China reflected diversified intellectual and social activities by Korean intellectuals who pushed for departure from the Cold War era and their social consciousness.

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