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Global History Workshop

Global History Workshop: “Globalization from East Asian Perspectives”

Report on the International Workshop “Globalization from East Asian Perspectives”

Shigeru Akita, Osaka University　　　report

Aim of the workshop

Organized by the Institute for Academic Initiatives (IAI), Osaka University and University of Oxford Center for Global History

Supported by Osaka University and the Leverhulme Trust, UK

Date: Tuesday, 15th – Thursday, 17th March 2016

Venue: Nakanoshima-Center, Osaka University, Japan

　　　　(http://www.onc.osaka-u.ac.jp/others/map/img/map_en.pdf)　

(Closed Workshop: invited scholars only)

Contact: Department of World History, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University

Shigeru Akita: akita@let.osaka-u.ac.jp

15th March (Tuesday):

9:00-10:00 Opening Plenary Lecture

Chair: Shigeru Akita (Osaka University, Japan)

James Belich (University of Oxford, UK)　　

“Globalization and Divergence”

Early-Globalization in Eastern Eurasia and Maritime Asia: Networks, States, Commerce and Religions

10:00-13:00 Session I: the First Millennium CE

　　Chair: Kazushi Iwao (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan)

　　Aims of the Panel: Dai Matsui (Osaka University, Japan)

Bryan K. Miller (University of Oxford, UK)

“Reflections of Globalizations: Localized Consumptions of Chinese Material Culture across Eurasia in the early First Millennium CE”

Shigeo Saito (Konan University, Japan)

“Turkic Nomadic Peoples and the Agro-pastoral Transitional Zone in Northern China during the Seventh and Ninth Centuries"

Masaharu Arakawa (Osaka University, Japan)

“Revisiting Silk Road Trade Activities in Eastern Eurasia: Considering Tang China’s View of the World”

Mie Nakata (Kansai University, Japan)

“A Sogdian from the Sea : Maritime Transport in the 8th century as Seen from The Pilgrimage Record of Vajrabodhi”

Shinji Yamauchi (Kobe Women’s University, Japan)

“Rethinking the 9th Century as a Notable Epoch of East Eurasian History”

Comments: Yutaka Yoshida (Kyoto University, Japan) and Toshio Hayashi (Soka University, Japan)

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-17:30 Session II: Early Second Millennium and the Mongol Empire

　　Chair: Yoshiyuki Funada (Kyushu University, Japan)

　　Aims of the Panel: Dai Matsui (Osaka University, Japan)

Dai Matsui (Osaka University, Japan)

“Network under the Mongol Empire as Seen in the Turco-Mongolian Documents Discovered from Central Asia”

Masaki Mukai (Doshisha University, Japan)

“West-Asian Network in Yuan China as Seen in the Local Gazetteers and Islamic Epitaphs from the Southeast Coast of China

Tsubasa Nakamura (Osaka University, Japan)

“Japan's Admiration for "China" and East Asian Networks in the Mongol Period”

Rila Mukherjee (Institute de Chandernagor, India)

“Configuring Faith, Locating Monarchs, Connecting Worlds: The Strange History of Prester John across the Indian Ocean”

Shiro Momoki (Osaka University, Japan)

“Revisiting the Fourteenth Century Crisis of Đại Việt against the Background of the Yuan-Ming Transition in the Eastern Eurasia”

18:30-20:30 Welcome Reception at Legha Royal Hotel

La Ronde （ラ・ロンド）

16th March (Wednesday): Early-Modern Globalization and East Asia

9:00-12:00 Session III: Big Games and Small Games in Early-Modern East Asia

Chair and Aims of the Panel: Shiro Momoki (Osaka University, Japan)

Federico Marcon (Princeton University, USA)

“Nature Knowledge in Early Modern Europe and Japan: Toward a Global History of Convergent Developments”

Sun Laichen　(State University of California, Fullerton, USA)

“The Century of Warfare in Eastern Eurasia, c. 1550-1683”

Barend Noordam (University of Leiden, Netherlands)

“The Global and the Local of a Technologically Entangled Process of Military Innovation: The Curious Parallels between sixteenth-century Dutch and Chinese Army Reforms”

Kiyohiko Sugiyama (University of Tokyo, Japan)

“The Qing Empire as a Central Eurasian State: From the Manchu Khanate to the Early-modern Eurasian Empire”

Comment: Daisuke Furuya (Osaka University, Japan)

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-16:30 Session IV: Daily Lives and the Making of Early-Modern Empires

Chair: Chiaki Yamamoto (Osaka University, Japan)

Aims of the Panel: Kojiro Taguchi (Osaka University, Japan)

Jurre J.A. Knoest (University of Leiden, Netherlands)

“A Tale of One City: Moderating Networks and Managing Globalization in Nagasaki c.1600-1800”

Takeshi Yamazaki (IRH, Kyoto University, Japan)

“Relaxation and restoration: Ming China's management for the turmoil in the southern littoral during the late sixteenth century”

Kwangmin Kim (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)

“Muslim Clients and Capitalism in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864”

Tsuyoshi Katayama (Osaka University, Japan)

“Land system and Rural Society in Late Imperial South China: A Comparison with Japan and so on”

Shinya Ueda (Osaka University, Japan)

“Acceptance of Confucianism and Transfiguration of Family Structure in areas around China: An Example of Early Modern Vietnamese Society”

17:00-19:00 Session V: Junior Scholars Session

Chairs: Wolfgang Schwentker and Hiroo Nakajima (Osaka University, Japan)

Elijah J. Greenstein (Princeton University, USA)

“Dalian and Japan's Shipping Empire, 1918-1937”

Kazuo Kobayashi (London School of Economics, UK)

"Guinée cloth and consumers in the lower Senegal River: connections between West Africa, India and Europe in the early nineteenth century"

Yoshihiro Taga (Osaka University, Japan)

”Circulation of small denomination currency in early modern Vietnam:　Comparison with early modern Korea and Japan”
Paper

Atsushi Goto (Osaka University of Tourism, Japan)

“Surveying in the Japanese Waters and the Tokugawa Diplomacy in the Early 19th Century”

17th March (Thursday): Modern and Contemporary Globalization from East Asian Perspectives

9:00-12:00 Session VI: Reconsidering the Nineteenth Century: The Reassessment of “Agricultural Development” in South and Southeast Asia in the Nineteenth Century from the Perspective of Global History

Chair: Ryuto Shimada (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Aims of the Panel: Shigeru Akita (Osaka University, Japan)

Tsukasa Mizushima (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

“Agricultural Development and Social Transformation in the Long Nineteenth Century – An Analysis of Settlement

Registers from South India－”

Atsushi Ota (Hiroshima University, Japan)

“The Development of Cash-crop Production in Colonial Minahasa: Non-Plantation Cultivation of Coffee and Copra”

Toshiyuki Miyata (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)

“Delta Development and Rice Export in Siam in the Late 19th and the Early 20th Century: The Case of Chaophraya River”

Yukimura Sakon (Niigata University, Japan)

“The economic development of Russian Far East villages in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries”

Jan-Georg Deutsch (University of Oxford, UK)

“Globalization in the Long Nineteenth Century: African Perspectives”

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-16:30 Session VII: Historical Origins of the “East Asian Economic Resurgence”

Chair: Gerold Krozewski (Osaka University, Japan)

Aims of the Panel: Shigeru Akita (Osaka University, Japan)

Liu Hong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

“Flows of Ideas and the Imaginations of a Transnational Asia: China, Japan and Nanyang in 1908 and Beyond”

Tomoko Akami (Australian National University, Australia)

"The meaning of the imperial polities in globalization: A case of making regional and global health norms in East Asia, the 1920s and 1930s"

Toru Kubo (Shinshu University, Japan)

The Compound Development of the East Asian Cotton Industry in the Context of Global History, 1940s-1960s

Mark Metzler (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

“High-Speed Growth as Global-Historical Process”

17:00-18:00 Concluding Discussions

19:00-21:00 Farewell dinner at Japanese restaurant

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