M303003Oriental History (Seminars)

Numbering Code G-LET24 7M303 SJ38 Year/Term 2022 ・ First semester
Number of Credits 2 Course Type Seminar
Target Year Target Student
Language Japanese Day/Period Mon.5
Instructor name NAKASUNA AKINORI (Graduate School of Letters Professor)
Outline and Purpose of the Course We will read a collection of papers that discusses the possibilities of global history and the significance of global history research and education in East Asia. Global history seems to be flourishing around the world today, but the circumstances in which its research and education are placed vary from country to country. By reading this collection of papers,
it may be possible to relativize global history research in Japan. The lineup is as follows.

Zhaoguang Ge(葛兆光):Is There Still Value in National History in the Trend towards Global History?
Federico Marcon: Is a World History of Ideas Possible?
Takahiro Nakajima (中島隆博):Conditional Universality and World History in Modern Philosophy in East Asia
Masashi Haneda(羽田正): A New Global History and Regional Histories
Benjamin A. Elman: A Jointly Regional-Global Approach to Rethinking Early Modern East Asian History
Jin Sato(佐藤仁):Internationalization from Within: 140 Years of Internationalization at the University of Tokyo
Yunshen Gu(顧雲深): Innovation: A Case Study of the Development of World History in the History Department of Fudan University
Shaoxin Dong(董少新):The Pros and Cons of the Construction of a Historical World
Norihisa Baba(馬場紀寿):From Sri Lanka to East Asia: A Short History of a Buddhist Scripture
Tineke D’Haeseleer: ‘Nobody Changed Their Old Customs’—Tang Views on the History of the World
Xinlei Wang(王鑫磊): The Korean Response to Xue Xuan’s Enshrinement in Ming Confucian Temples
Yasushi Oki(大木康):Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century World
Paize Keulemanns: Tales of an Open World: The Fall of the Ming Dynasty as Dutch Tragedy, Chinese Rumor, and Global News
Zhenzhong Wang(王振忠): The Regulation of Sailors in the Maritime Trade between Jiangnan and Nagasaki in Early Qing China
Sheldon Garon: The Transnational History of Japanese Thrift

Course Goals 1. You can know the trend of global history research.
2. You can know the difference in research stances of the United States, China, and Japan.
Schedule and Contents 1. Introduction
2~14. Students will be in charge of each of the above papers, introduce the content, and add comments.
15.Feedback
Evaluation Methods and Policy Evaluation will be based on class participation.
Course Requirements None
Study outside of Class (preparation and review) If the paper is introduced orally, an outline must be created as supplementary material.
Textbooks Textbooks/References その他, Students do not need to buy the book. The instructor will provide a copy.
References, etc. Introuced during class
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