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

这一研究项目旨在开创文化交流学作为一门新的历史学科的学术领域。被称为“外交关系史”的领域一直被认为是国史研究的副业。此外，传统上对日本与中国文化交流的研究，多为描述性作品的积累。我们的研究项目采用了以下观点：1)传入日本的中国文化不是作为一个整体的中国文化，而是其特定区域的特定部分；2)中国东部沿海地区是研究中国与日本文化交流的必要地区；3)中国文化的转型应从特定文化信息的传播者和传播途径的角度来考虑；4)明治维新后，文化信息从日本回流到中国，必须被看作是对西方对两国影响的反应现象。我们组织了三个工作组来完成这一项目；文化传播组、文化转型组、文化流通组。这项研究项目的全部内容可以看到研究报告(342页)，其中包含了完整的论文清单。

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.