It is composed with analyses about border crossing, information and interchange, network building, identity formation. Through these themes, We tried to illuminate the time, space and experiencing others in East Asia, focused on China and Japan. It is ...
It is composed with analyses about border crossing, information and interchange, network building, identity formation. Through these themes, We tried to illuminate the time, space and experiencing others in East Asia, focused on China and Japan. It is a cultural history of travel, information, and network. Firstly, in the part of border-crossing, we examined the spatial expansion and articulation through the various travels, and the modes of control towards travels. Targets of inquiry are like these: Hs?an-tsang's travel to India and intellectuals' travel to Western regions in Tang Period, Isemairi of Tokugawa Japan, Hongkong tour in modern China, and Manchurian travel in modern Japan. Investigation of records about these travels, we can confirm the nexus of the politial, social, and intellectual history in East Asia. These travels revealed the power politics, exotic experience, state control, dual cognition, and the imperial consciousness. Secondly, at information and interchange, we examined the production and reproduction of information, and the various faces of interchanges. We investigated the Sima Qian's travel to southwestern boundaries of ancient China, two officials' Yangtze river journeys in the Song Period, the long-distance transport network during the Yeke Mongol Ulus period, travel to Beijing in the Ming-Ching period. These travels revealed that the Sino-centrism toward ethnic minorities in China, interrelations of Shi-da-fu groups, infrastructures of imperial governing, and the geographical knowledges are reproduced bia travels. Thirdly, in the part of network, Targets of inquiry are like these: the royal tours of Sui Yang-ti, the China tour of a Medieval Japanese monk, the Chinese travels to Southeast Asia in the Song-Yuan period, the travel to Beijing of the fifth Dalai lama during the 17th century, Mount Fuji tour of Tokugawa period, and the School trips to the Manchuria and Korea in modern Japan. By the investigation around these travels, the existence of the imperial network, sea lane network, intellectual network, civil networks in East Asian society, and religion network in North Asia were confirmed. Lastly, in the part of identity, we examined the relations of travels and identity. We could reveal the phenomenon that ancient Chinese dynasty tried to press individuals under the state-controlled identity, and divisions of monks' study tour pattern was related to theological systems. Also we appreciated the identity troubles of Ryukyuan dynasty between China and Japan. Furthermore, we could find out that modernization of East Asia made Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese to reshape the self-identity under the gaze of the West throughout the official and non-official overseas travels.