Diffusion, Transformation and Circulation of Chinese Culture : Chinese coastal area and Japan

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This research project has aimed at creating an academic field of Cultural Interchange Studies as a new discipline of history. The field that is called "history of foreign relations" has been considered a sideline to the study of national history. Besides, the traditional researches of the cultural interchange between Japan and China have been not more than the accumulation of descriptive works. No methodology or systematic perspective can be found there.Our research project adopted the perspectives as follows: 1) the Chinese culture transmitted into Japan was not the Chinese culture as a whole, but its particular part of particular region, 2) the coastal area of East China was essential for the study of China-Japan cultural interchange, 3) the transformation of Chinese culture should be considered from the view point of the persons who transmitted the particular cultural information and the route of its transmission, 4) after Meiji Restoration, the backflow of cultural information from Japan to China must be treated as phenomena of reaction to 'Western Impact' to both nations.We organized three working groups to accomplish this project; group for cultural transmission, group for cultural transformation and group for cultural circulation. The whole contents of this research project can be seen the Report of Research (342 pages), which contains a complete list of articles.