Cultural Interaction Studies in East Asia

New Methods and Perspectives

Demin Tao, Fujita Takao, Demin Tao, Fujita Takao

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9783847111535
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847011538
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Science General
• Index: Biological Sciences

This volume tackles the unique scholarly challenges of Cultural Interaction Studies in an East Asian context. Leading experts in a variety of related fields – from religion and history to geography, language, literature, Sinology and Japanology – have contributed a total of 18 articles, collected under the following six rubrics: "New Directions in Regional Studies", "New Trends in Humanities Studies", "Material Circulation and Cultural Transmission in East Asia", "China's Experience of Cultural Interaction with the West", "Transformation of Japanese Scholarship from Early Modern to Modern Times", and "The Wisdom of Selective Adaptation and Constructive Dialog". Among the eight award-winning contributors, Ge Zhaoguang (1950–) has received critical acclaim for his What is China? Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History (2014), while Nakanishi Susumu (1929–) has been internationally recognized for his lifelong devotion to the study of ancient Japanese literature. Nakanishi's determination to inherit Prince Shotoku's spirit of peaceful coexistence with Japan's neighboring countries led him to propose the new era name "Reiwa", which was officially adopted for use by the Emperor Naruhito upon his enthronement on May 1, 2019.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• TAO Demin: Introduction
• Body
• New Directions in Regional Studies
• NOMA Haruo: The Center and Periphery in the Magnetic Field of Cultural Systems: New Perspectives on Regional Research
• HUANG Chun-Chieh: Some Observations on the Study of the History of Cultural Interactions in East Asia
• SHIBA Yoshinobu: Japanese Studies into the History of Maritime East Asia
• New Trends in Humanities Research
• GE Zhaoguang: Trends, Positions and Methods: Seeking New Perspectives in Humanities Research
• AZUMA Jūji: The Private Academies of East Asia: Research Perspectives and Overview
• UCHIDA Keiichi: The Peripheral Approach in Chinese Linguistics as an Area of Cultural Interaction Studies
• Material Circulation and Cultural Transmission in East Asia
• NAKANISHI Susumu: Embassies and Ideas as the Third Type of Cargo
• WANG Yong: The Silk Road and Book Road in East Asia
• MATSUURA Akira: Chinese Sea Merchants and Pirates
• China's Experience of Cultural Interaction with the West
• ZHOU Zhenhe: Culture Surmounting Space: Sino-Western Cultural Encounters and Adaptations from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
• ZHANG Xiping: Returning to a Dialog of Equals
• SHEN Guowei: Modern Keywords and the Modern History of Ideas
• Transformation of Japanese Scholarship from Early Modern to Modern Times
• CHOI Gwan: War, Memory, and Imagination: Japanese Depictions of the Imjin War
• FUJITA Takao: The Establishment of the Field of “Oriental History” in Japan: Facilitating Understanding of East Asian Studies in Modern Japan
• SUZUKI Sadami: A Reevaluation of the East Asian Modern System of Knowledge
• YAN Shaodang: A Reconsideration of Japanese China Studies
• The Wisdom of Selective Adaptation and Constructive Dialog
• TANG Yijie: The Coexistence of Cultural Diversity: Sources of the Value of Harmony in Diversity
• TAO Demin: Abraham Lincoln's Reception and Destiny in East Asia
• Contributors
• Translators
• FUJITA Takao: Afterword
• Notes about this new edition
• Index