Global History Workshop: “Globalization from East Asian Perspectives”
Date: Tuesday, 15th – Thursday, 17th March 2016
Venue: Nakanoshima-Center, Osaka University
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)
(1) Bryan K. Miller (University of Oxford, UK)
“Reflections of Globalizations: Localized Consumptions of Chinese Material Culture across Eurasia
in the early First Millennium CE”
(2) Shigeo Saito (Konan University, Japan)
“Old Turkic Nomadic People and Agro-pastoral Transition Zone in Northern China during 6-8th
Century”
(3) Masaharu Arakawa (Osaka University, Japan)
“Revisiting the Silk Route Trade in East Eurasia Based on Tang Empire's View of the World”
(4) Mie Nakata (Kansai University, Japan)
“A Sogdian from the Sea : Maritime Transport in the 8th century seen from the Pilgrimage Record of
Vajrabodhi”
(5) Shinji Yamauchi (Kobe Women’s University, Japan)
“Rethinking on the 9th Century as a Notable Epoch of East Eurasian History”
Comments: Yutaka Yoshida (Kyoto University, Japan) and Toshio Hayashi (Soka University, Japan)
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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)
(1) Dai Matsui (Osaka University, Japan)
“Network under the Mongol Empire as Seen in the Turco-Mongolian Documents Discovered from
Central Asia”
(2) 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
(3) Tsubasa Nakamura (Osaka University, Japan)
“Japan's Admiration for "China" and East Asian Networks in the Mongol Period”
(4) Rila Mukherjee (Institute de Chandernagor and University of Hyderabad, India)
“Configuring Faith, Locating Monarchs, Connecting Worlds: The Strange History of Prester John
across the Indian Ocean”
(5) 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”
18:00-20:30
Welcome Reception at Scholars’ Salon of Nakanoshima-center
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)
(1) Federico Marcon (Princeton University, USA)
“Nature Knowledge in Early Modern Europe and Japan: Toward a Global History of Convergent
Developments”
(2) Sun Laichen (State University of California, Fullerton, USA)
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“The Century of Warfare in Eastern Eurasia, c. 1550-1683”
(3) 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”
(4) Kiyohiko Sugiyama (University of Tokyo, Japan)
“The Qing Empire as a Central Eurasian State: From the Manchu Khanate to the Early-modern
Eurasian Empire”
(5) Alan Strathern (University of Oxford, UK)
“Religion and global early modernity”
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)
(1) Jurre J.A. Knoest (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
“A Tale of One City: Moderating Networks and Managing Globalization in Nagasaki c.1600-1800”
(2) 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”
(3) Kwangmin Kim (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
“Muslim Clients and Capitalism in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864”
(4) Tsuyoshi Katayama (Osaka University, Japan)
“Land system and rural society in late imperial South China: comparison with Japan and Europe”
(5) Shinya Ueda (Osaka University, Japan)
“Acceptance of Confucianism and Transfiguration of Family Structure in areas around China: An
Example of Early Modern Vietnamese Society”
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17:00-19:00 Session V: Junior Scholars Session
Chairs: Wolfgang Schwentker and Hiroo Nakajima (Osaka University, Japan)
(1) Elijah J. Greenstein (Princeton University, USA)
“Dalian and Japan's Shipping Empire, 1918-1937”
(2) Kazuo Kobayashi (London School of Economics, UK)
“Indian cotton textiles and consumers along the lower Senegal River: a driving force in the birth of
the modern world”
(3) Yoshihiro Taga (Osaka University, Japan)
“Circulation of small denomination currency in early modern Vietnam -Analysis from comparative
perspective-”
(4) 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)
(1) 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－”
(2) Atsushi Ota (Hiroshima University, Japan)
“Development and Cash-crop Production in Colonial Minahasa: Non-Plantation Cultivation of
Coffee and Copra”
(3) Toshiyuki Miyata (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
“Delta Development and Rice Export in Thailand in the Late 19th and the Early 20th Century: The
Case of Chaophraya River”
(4) Yukimura Sakon (Niigata University, Japan)
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“The economic development of Russian Far East villages in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries”
(5) 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)
(1) Moritz von Brescius (University of Konstanz, Germany)
“Fateful encounters: The German and Japanese Empires, c.1870-1945”
(2) Liu Hong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
“Flows of Ideas and the Imaginations of a Transnational Asia: China, Japan and Nanyang in 1908
and Beyond”
(3) Tomoko Akami (Australian National University, Australia)
“An inter-colonial pattern of globalization in East Asia and its impact: imperial polities and
trans-border health norm making at the League of Nations Rural Hygiene Conference, Bandung,
1937’
(4) Toru Kubo (Shinshu University, Japan)
“The complex development of East Asian cotton industries in the 1940s-50s” (tentative)
(5) 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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