Regional Systems and Supra-Regional Networks before Modern World System

在2004-2006年的三年中，项目组开展了以下活动：a)项目组建立了一个项目网站（http://f57.aaa.livedoor.jp/ ~ rsysnet/index.html），以广泛的信息和讨论为目的。c)项目组成员在日本和国外进行了指派研究，并在此基础上撰写了多篇期刊论文、会议论文、论文和书籍。d)项目组参加了由大阪大学21世纪国际人文交流中心项目“界面人文”与新加坡国立大学亚洲研究所联合举办的两次研讨会：“海洋视角下的东北亚：与东南亚的对话”（冲绳，2004年10月）和“动态边缘地带与开放中心地带：作为互动场所的亚洲海事”（长崎，2006年10月）。两场研讨会都聚焦东南亚与东北亚的相互联系和比较，这是世界学术界很少关注的话题。在这些研讨会上，我们的项目成员根据项目成果发表了六篇论文。e)项目团队发表了一份最终报告，包括总结项目结果的文章。研究结果的许多部分也被收录在《亚洲航海史概论》（亚洲航海史研究小组编撰，岩上出版社，印刷）中。f)在大阪大学举办的“高中历史教育研讨会”中向高中教师介绍了项目成果，该研讨会是为了改进过多的传统高中教科书和课程而组织的。通过这些活动，该项目在很大程度上促进了日本学术界和高中更广泛的学术/教育讨论，这些讨论长期以来被划分为过于狭窄的“特定领域”，因此与更广泛的人文学科圈子隔绝。少

In three year (2004-2006), the project team undertook activities as follows:a) The team held a project website (http://f57.aaa.livedoor.jp/〜rsysnet/index.html) for the purpose of broad information and discussion.b) Inviting a number of domestic and foreign scholars as guest speakers, the project team held 20 workshops and seminars at Osaka University, in which a number of related topics were discussed as : "the world of Sanskrit" in medieval and early modern India ; the evolution of Indian Ocean networks ; the regional structure of Central Asia ; the revision of Sino-centric views in world and regional history ; documental study concerning Chinese history ; global commodities in the early modern era; the relationship between China and Southeast Asia ; early modern development of mainland Southeast Asia ; trade in and around the islands of Japan.c) The project members undertook assigned research in Japan and abroad, based on which a number of individual journal articles, conference pape … More rs, and books were written. d) The project team attended two joint-workshops organized by Osaka University 21^<st> Century COE Program 《Interface Humanities》 and Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore : 《Northeast Asia from the Maritime Perspective : A Dialogue with Southeast Asia》 (Okinawa, Oct. 2004) and 《Dynamic Rimlands and Open Heartlands : Maritime Asia as a Site of Interactions》 (Nagasaki, Oct. 2006). Both workshops focused on interconnectedness and comparisons between Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia, a topic world academic circles had paid little attention. In these workshops, our project members presented six papers based on the project achievements.e) The project team published a final report including articles that summarized the project results. Many parts of the result were also incorporated into the publication An Introduction to Maritime Asian History (The Research Group of Maritime Asian History (ed.), Iwanami publishing house, in print).f) The project achievements were introduced to high school teachers in 《High School History Education Seminars》 held by Osaka University, which were organized to improve too much conventional high school textbooks and curricula.Through these activities, the project contributed to a considerable extent to stimulate broader academic/educational discussions in Japanese academic circles and high schools, which had long been divided into too narrow "specific fields" and consequently isolated in broader circle of humanities. Less