Some Notes on the Study of the History of Cultural Interactions in East Asia
Resource
臺大歷史學報, 43, 187-216
Journal
臺大歷史學報
Journal Issue
43
Pages
187-216
Date Issued
2009-06
Date
2009-06
Author(s)
Abstract
This article incorporates the history of East Asian cultural interactions into the field of "regional history," and proposes certain subjects to be explored. The article consists of five sections. Section 1 aims to draw attention to "regional history," an emerging discipline different from "national history"-which occupied great academic interest in the 20th century-and "global history"-a speedily heating issue in the 21st century. Section 2 suggests a new way of study in "regional history": to shift our focus from the "result" of cultural interactions to the "process", thus making a "paradigm shift" as well in the study of history of East Asian cultural interactions. Section 3 raises two problematiques in the proposed field of "regional history": the mutual influence between "self" and "other," and that between "culture" and "power structure." Section 4 proposes three types of "interaction" for further research: (1) interaction of personage (between "professional intermediate agents" and "others"); (2) interaction of articles (especially books); (3) interaction of thoughts. The last section concludes that, with the rise of East Asian countries on the world stage in the 21st century, the state-centrist style of historical study shall be re-directed to a broader East Asian perspective. By redefining the "history of East Asian cultural interactions" as "regional history," we will be able to make crucial revisits to and reflection upon our traditional cultures.
Subjects
區域史
東亞
文化交流史
國別史
全球史
自我
他者
媒介人物
Regional history
East Asia
history of cultural interaction
National history
global history
self
others
professional intermediate agent
Type
journal article
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