A comparative study on the pre-modern societies of East Asia

这个项目旨在对东亚社会的传统和未来之间的关系有一个新的理解。为此，我们从比较的角度研究了前现代时期：明清中国时期、朝鲜李朝时期和日本德川时期。(1)我们对东亚传统社会精英阶层的共同特征和差异有了更深刻的认识：(*)中国的世大夫(*)、韩国的杨板(**)和日本的武士(**)。(2)为了更深入地把握东亚社会，我们尝试了几种比较视角的研究，例如土地制度和土地登记制度、货币和市场制度、雨舞等。(3)我们普遍认识到传统制度对19世纪应对西方冲击的影响很大。

This project aims at gaining a new understanding about the relation between the tradition and the future of East Asia societies. For this purpose we have studied of the period of pre-moderntimes ; Ming and Ching China, the Lee Dynasty of Korea, and Tokugawa Japan in comparative perspectives. We newly gained many viewpoints as belows :(1) We have gained deeper understanding about the common features and the differences of the elite class in traditional societies of East Asia ; Chinese Shi-da-fu (***), Korean Yang-ban (**), and Japanese Bu-shi(**).(2) For the deeper grasping of East Asian societies we have tried several studies in comparative perspective, for example, land system and land register system, money and market system, and a rain dance ets..(3) We commonly recognized that traditional systems had much influence upon the response against Western impact in the nineteenth century.