Sojunghwa

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Sojunghwa (소중화, 小中華) means "Small China" or "Little Sinocentrism" in Korean language. Like Sinocentrism, which is the belief that China is the center of the civilization of the world, Korea, which was a tributary state of China, thinks that Korea is Small China and a highly civilized state. Korea considers Japan and the Jurchen people to be barbarians (이적, 夷狄) or beasts (금수, 禽獸) under the Hua-Yi distinction. After the Qing Dynasty conquered the Ming Dynasty, Korea thought that barbarians ruined the center of the civilization of the world and that Korea became the successor of China, the center of the world.[1][2][3]

Notes

  1. ↑ 소중화 브리태니커 백과
  2. ↑ 小中華思想 世界大百科事典 第２版
  3. ↑ Lee, Jeong-Mi (2010) "Choso˘n Korea as Sojunghwa, the Small Central Civilization: Sadae kyorin Policy and Relations with Ming/Qing China and Tokugawa Japan in the Seventeenth Century" Asian cultural studies (36), 305-318, International Christian University
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