The Transformation of Traditional Notions of Geography in East Asia and Its Environs Caused by the Introduction of the Modern Discipline of Geography

我们课题组的研究结果如下。我们可以发现一些东亚传统地理的痕迹。在东亚地区，尤其是中国南部地区、韩国和冲绳，风水的概念已经被应用到居住和房屋建筑中。由于接受了欧洲地理学，亚洲人的世界观扩大了。(3)受宗主国地理思想的影响，殖民地国家的地理学实现了现代化。(4)近代早期的东亚是欧洲地理学家研究的对象。比如亚洲的农业，他们的方法缺乏本土的水稻种植观。(5)目前东亚地区高校地理教育是在欧美方法体系下进行的。地理对国家规划的贡献取决于国家对地理重要性的认识。

The results of our research group are as follows.(1) We could find some traces of East Asian traditional geography.The idea of feng shui has been adopted to settlement and house building in East Asia such as especially in southern region of China, Korea and Okinawa.(2) Asian people's view of the world was expanded by the acceptance of European geography.(3) The geography of colonial countries was modernized by the influence of geographical thought of suzerain.(4) East Asia in early modern age was the object of research by European geographers. Such as for Asian agriculture, their method lacked the native view of rice cultivation.(5) Nowadays geography education of universities in East Asia is practicing by the system of European or American method. Geographical contribution to national planning is depends on the significance of geography which the country recognize.