Shin Chae-ho

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Shin Chae-ho, date unknown
Shin Chae-ho, date unknown

Hangeul 신채호
Hanja 申采浩
Revised
Romanization 		Sin Chae-ho
McCune-
Reischauer 		Sin Ch'aeho

Shin Chae-ho (born December 8, 1880 in Chongju , Chungcheongnam-do Province , then Joseon , now South Korea ; † February 21, 1936 in Lüshunkou , then Republic of China , now People's Republic of China ) was a Korean historian , independence activist against the Japanese Empire and anarchist .

Life

Shin Chae-ho was born into a peasant family but received higher education. From 1898 to 1905 he studied at the Seonggyungwan Confucian University , where he obtained a doctorate. He worked as a journalist for various daily newspapers and published numerous novels. In 1907 he joined the Shin Min Hee independence movement, founded in 1906 , which campaigned for the full sovereignty of the Korean Empire after it was partially lost by the Japan-Korea Protectorate Treaty of 1905 . After the annexation of Korea by the Japanese Empire in 1910, he emigrated to China . In 1923 Shin wrote the draft for the Korean Revolutionary Manifesto .

In 1927 Shin joined the Eastern Anarchist Federation ( kor. 동방 무정부주의 연맹 , 東方 無政府主義 聯盟 ). He was arrested in Kiirun in 1928 and sentenced to ten years in prison in Dairen (then under Japanese administration). Shin died of a cerebral haemorrhage in Lüshun Prison in 1936 .

Shin believed that Korean history was only viewed from a Japanese perspective, and so tried to rewrite history to strengthen Korean identity. With his works Doksa Shillok ( Engl. A New Reading of History ) and Joseon Sanggosa ( The Early History of Joseon ) he founded the first ethnic-based history of Korea. He made the myth of Tan'Gun the starting point of Korean history.

In 1962, Shin was posthumously awarded the Presidential Order of Merit for National Foundation . In 2009 he received an entry in the South Korean family register. Up to this date he did not appear there because he had refused an entry in the Japanese registers introduced there for the first time and South Korea took over the Japanese registers.

literature

  • Shin Chae-ho: The Dreaming Sky. Anthology of Novels by Shin Chae-ho . Tongwang Publishing, 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shin Yong-ha: The philosophical world of Sin Chae-ho . In: Korean Philosophy: Its Tradition and Modern Transformation . Hollym, 2004, ISBN 978-1-56591-178-9 , pp. 441 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Sang-t'aek Yi: Religion and Social Formation in Korea: minjung and Millenarianism . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1996, p. 46ff, ISBN 3110147971
  3. ↑ Duara Prasenjit: The Global and Regional in China's Nation lineup . Taylor & Francis, 2009, pp. 29-30, ISBN 0415482895
  4. ↑ Bae Ji-sook: Independence Fighter to Get Family Register. In: The Korea Times. January 3, 2009, accessed March 7, 2009 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Shin is the family name here, Chae-ho is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Shin, Chae-ho
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 신채호 (Korean, Hangeul); 申采浩 (Korean, Hanja); Sin, Chae-ho (Revised Romanization); Sin, Ch'aeho (McCune-Reischauer); Shin, Ch'ae-ho (alternative transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Korean historian, independence activist, and anarchist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Chongju, Chungcheongnam-do Province , then Joseon , now South Korea
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1936
Place of death Lüshunkou , then Republic of China , today People's Republic of China