{"title":"European Art Music and Its Role in the Cultural Interaction between Japan and the East Asian Continent in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries","authors":"M. Mehl","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2016-070106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2016-070106","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The fact that much of what the Japanese regard as part of their culture originally came to Japan from the Asian continent in ancient and medieval times is well known and has been extensively researched. For the period after 1868, however, the attention of scholars has tended to concentrate on Japan’s comprehensive importation of Western civilization. This exploratory article suggests a different perspective. Taking music in modern Japan as an example and based in part on the author’s research for her recent book Not by Love Alone: The Violin in Japan, 1850-2010, the author will argue that music is a particularly rewarding fi eld for examining transnational fl ows. Research on music in modern Japan has tended to privilege the introduction of European art music from the West and this was undoubtedly one of the most important developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. There are, however, aspects to this development that merit more attention than they have received so far, including the relationship between Western music and other musics practised in Japan in the nineteenth century and the interactions between Japan and non-Western countries and in particular its East Asian neighbours. In this article, four general themes for further enquiry are introduced: 1. The possible relation between Meiji statesmen’s and intellectuals’ kangaku education and their views on the role of music in the modern state. 2. The Chinese origins and the place of minshingaku (Ming and Qing music) in the musical culture of nineteenthcentury Japan. 3. Japan’s role in the dissemination of Western Music in East Asia. 4. The role of the East Asian continent (particularly the cities of Shanghai and Harbin) as a place of encounter between Asia and Europe.","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128536423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resources for Studying Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War around the World","authors":"D. Stowell","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2016-070117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2016-070117","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134098600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"East Asia as a Unit in Historical Research","authors":"Z. Qing","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2015-060101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2015-060101","url":null,"abstract":"It is without doubt worth considering how to understand and situate East Asia as a unit in historical research. Arnold Toynbee, in his Study of History, took the unit of historical research as his point of departure in his comparative study of the basis for the development of civilizations. Toynbee raised the issue of the unit of historical research because research limited to the national perspective greatly restricts the historian’s outlook. Indeed, Europe does not have a single people or nation that can articulate the challenges it faces. For this reason, he advocated comparing and investigating the phenomena of history under the broader concept of civilization. From this perspective, it makes even greater sense to regard East Asia as a unit of historical research, for East Asia is not only a composite culture; it is also a physical space. The new academic research field of East Asian cultural interaction studies broke through the former notion of analyzing historical issues in terms of nations and peoples, established East Asia as a composite cultural unity, focuses on cultural formations, contacts, diffusions, and changes within this region, and seeks to interpret the entire pattern of cultural interaction from a multipolar yet overarching perspective. Of course, merely taking East Asia as the unit of historical research is far from sufficient. We also have to determine how to carry out historical research. Here Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory is an analytic framework and observational perspective worthy of our attention. As Bourdieu said, “A field can be defined as a network, or configuration, of the objective relations between positions.” Obviously, East Asia forms a complex field comprising many aspects, such as economics, politics, culture, etc. From this perspective, we can say that the following topics of historical research are worth expanding on: First, how did the field of East Asia form? Establishing past spatial connections creates a foundation for carrying out research on East Asian culture. Preface","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116985936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Dialogue on “What Is China: Problems in Modernity, State, Culture”","authors":"Ge Zhaoguang","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2015-060106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2015-060106","url":null,"abstract":"On November 10, 2014, Ge Zhaoguang, Director of the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai and winner of the twenty-sixth Asia-Pacific Award アジア・太平洋賞, held a press conference at the Japan National Press Club. As part of the series “Talks with Authors,” Prof. Ge discussed “What Is China?” using such key concepts as worldviews, national borders, history, and periphery to present the contents of his awardwinning book Rethinking China: Its Territory, People, Culture, and History. Coincidentally, this press conference was held on the very day that Prime Minister Abe Shinzō and Chairman Xi Jinping met in Beijing, the first Japan-China heads-of-state meeting in two years. Prof. Ge advocates that China rid itself of the notion that it is the Celestial Empire 天朝, and encourages China and neighboring countries to adopt a sensible attitude in dealing with friction over territorial disputes. Here we present the text of his talk and the main questions and answers following.","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130780183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Discourse on Confucian Entrepreneurs: Role Models and Wealth” : The Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies and the World Ethics Institute Beijing, Peking University, May 12–13, 2014","authors":"Ming Xu","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2015-060108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2015-060108","url":null,"abstract":"1 Background Prof. Tu Weiming previously proposed that the notion of the Confucian entrepreneur could be developed as a new promising domain of discourse. With that in mind, the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies and the World Ethics Institute Beijing sought to shape this public sphere by promoting dialogue between Confucian scholars and entrepreneurs, and to create a new identity for entrepreneurs in a world shifting from an axial age to an dialogical age. “Discourse on Confucian Entrepreneurs 2014,” the second annual conference held by the two institutions, discussed “Role Models and Wealth.” The first one held in October 2013, focused on the theme of “Confucian Entrepreneurs as Public Intellectuals with Spiritual Humanism.”","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126464863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Image of China Shaped by American Missionaries and Its Impact in the Early Twentieth Century","authors":"W. Jing","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2015-060104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2015-060104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124153380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joshua Marshman and the First Chinese Book Printed with Movable Metal Type","authors":"Ma Min","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2015-060102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2015-060102","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 1998 in an essay published in Lishi yanjiu, I once discussed the pioneering efforts of Joshua Marshman and Joannes Lassar in the early nineteenth century to produce a Chinese translation of the Bible in Serampore, India. In this essay I mentioned that the Gospel of John 若翰所書之福音, translated and printed by Marshman and Lassar in 1813, “was in fact the first Chinese book printed using movable metal type.”Today, fifteen years later, I have not yet seen any new discoveries requiring that I revise my assertions, and recently I had an opportunity to visit Serampore, to inspect what remains of the old Mission Press, and to collect some books and materials preserved there. This experience greatly enhanced my understanding of this episode of history. Hence, here I would like to use the materials I have at hand to discuss in more detail the early Chinese books printed with movable metal type and the achievements of the missionaries at Serampore in printing Chinese.","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127109905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Roman Catholic Perceptions of British and American Protestant Missionaries (1807–1920)","authors":"Jean-Paul Wiest","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2015-060103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2015-060103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127397821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advisor Shibusawa Masahide’s Pilgrimage to the Temple of Confucius in Qufu on May 10–11, 2014","authors":"De-min Tao","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2015-060111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2015-060111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127772489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Turning Stone into Gold: Some Reflections on My Research about the 1854 Shōin-Perry Encounter","authors":"De-min Tao","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2015-060105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2015-060105","url":null,"abstract":"When Yoshikawa Kōjirō 吉川幸次郎 (1904–1980), a prominent scholar of Kyoto University known for teaching Chinese literature in spoken Mandarin, was writing a critical biography of the Sinologue Ogyū Sorai 荻生徂徠 (1666–1728), he commented that Sorai was a linguist when he was young, a literary man in his middle ages, and a philosopher in his later years. After three decades of research, I found the comment to be a great inspiration, reminding me that I should now try to be a bit more philosophical so as to refine and sublimate my scholarship and share my experience with students in an memorable way. In this spirit, I developed the following four-line instruction set that I call “Shihai shibei” 史海拾貝 (Collecting shells from the sea of history), based mainly on my research about the 1854 Shōin-Perry encounter at Yale, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), based in Washington, D.C., and Tokyo. This instruction set incorporates several wellknown Chinese and Japanese proverbs:","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123501886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}