Crossings and Connections: East Asia and the World, c1800-1945

Program

Program Overview

Program ver. 3.1 [PDF]

10:30

Welcome, Opening

Venue: Auditorium (Small Hall, S011), 2nd Basement Floor

Chair: Takashi KOSEKI (General Secretary, the Japanese National Committee of ICHS/CISH, Kyoto University)

Seiichiro YOSHIZAWA (President, the Japanese National Committee of ICHS/CISH, University of Tokyo)

Catherine HOREL (President, ICHS/CISH)

Yoshihito OKINAGA (President, Teikyo University)

11:00

Keynote Lecture

Venue: Auditorium (Small Hall, S011), 2nd Basement Floor

Chair: Takashi KOSEKI (General Secretary, the Japanese National Committee of the ICHS, Kyoto University)

Imperialism and Internationalism in East Asia: The League of Nations’ Efforts to Control Opium and Improve Health in the Region

Harumi GOTO-SHIBATA (University of Tokyo)

Harumi GOTO-SHIBATA (D.Phil., University of Oxford) is a professor of international history at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. She was a Nitobe fellow and a senior associate member of St Antony’s College, Oxford, in 2003-4; a visiting fellow at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Oxford, in 2018-19; and a visiting senior fellow at the international history department of London School of Economics and Political Science in 2023. Her publications in English include The League of Nations and the East Asian Imperial Order, 1920-1946 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), and Japan and Britain in Shanghai, 1925-31 (Macmillan, St Antony’s series, 1995).

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break (Soratio Kitchen, 6th Floor)

13:50-17:00

Panel I: Diplomacy and Cultural Diplomacy

Venue: Room S61, 6th Floor

13:50-15:00

Part 1

Chair: Takuya SASAKI (Rikkyo University)

13:50-14:10

The Transformation of Interpreters (通事) in East Asia's Modernization

Zikang ZHANG (Nagasaki University)

14:10-14:30

Commercial Treaty and Alliance in Modern East Asia

Satoko KOKETSU (Osaka University)

14:30-15:00

Discussion

15:00-15:30

Coffee/Tea Break

15:30-17:00

Part 2

Chair: Hiroaki OZAWA (Chiba University)

15:30-15:50

“The Most Complete Diplomatic Defeat”: The Japanese Branch of the China Association, 1890-1905

Alexander O'KANE (Flinders University)

15:50-16:10

“National” Culture for Power: Tourism Promotion, Internationalism, and the Development of Japanese Cultural Diplomacy and Propaganda, 1910-1950

Jason BUTTERS (Columbia University)

16:10-16:30

Japan and the Post World War One Balance of Power in Eastern Europe: The Use of Diplomatic Tools in the Ratification Process of the October 1920 Paris Treaty on Bessarabia

Mihail DOBRE (University of Bucharest)

16:30-17:00

Discussion

13:30-17:00

Panel II: Political Thought and Practice

Venue: Room S62, 6th Floor

13:30-15:00

Part 1

Chair: Yuko MATSUMOTO (Chuo University)

13:30-13:50

Sone Toshitora's Hōetsu Kōheiki: Literati Collaboration and Sinographic Cosmopolitanism in 1880s Shanghai

Alan DAI (University of California, Los Angeles)

13:50-14:10

George Washington in East Asia: The Transnational Invention of a Hero in Japan and China

Fei CHEN (Nagoya University of Commerce and Business)

14:10-14:30

“Pan-Africa Stands beside Pan-Asia, and Europe Trembles”: Marcus Garvey and the Complexities of Black Internationalism in East Asia

Zifeng LIU (Hong Kong Baptist University)

14:30-15:00

Discussion

15:00-15:30

Coffee/Tea Break

15:30-17:00

Part 2

Chair: Yukimura SAKON (Kyushu University)

15:30-15:50

From Butler to Bebel to Baba: The Crisscross of Anti-Prostitution Feminist Thought in Prewar Japan

Caroline NORMA (RMIT University)

15:50-16:10

Bound Feet Women in Western Women's Eyes in the Late Qing China

Tomoko GOMI (Keio University)

16:10-16:30

Describing the "Indies": Vincenzo Marchi S.J. and His Letters from China (1871-1912)

Irene GADDO (Università del Piemonte Orientale)

16:30-17:00

Discussion

13:30-16:40

Panel III: Culture and Science

Venue: Room S63, 6th Floor

13:30-15:00

Part 1

Chair: Ken ISHIDA (Chiba University)

13:30-13:50

Norwegian Encounters with Meiji Japan through Material Objects

Ulrike SPRING (University of Oslo)

13:50-14:10

The Screening of the Italian Movie "The Ship" (1921) in Japan in 1922: Crossings and Connections Between East Asia and the World Through the Lens of Cinematic Art

Andrea NANETTI (Nanyang Technological University Singapore)

14:10-14:30

How to Turn Otherness into Familiarity: Fosco Maraini and Japan

Edoardo TORTAROLO (Università del Piemonte Orientale)

14:30-15:00

Discussion

15:00-15:30

Coffee/Tea Break

15:30-16:40

Part 2

Chair: Wataru IIJIMA (Nagasaki University)

15:30-15:50

Fossil Histories: Prehistoric Animals and Scientific Encounters with Deep Time in East and South Asia, 1850s-1920s

Amelia BONEA (University of Manchester)

15:50-16:10

When Animal Kindness is Imperial: British Humanitarianism and the Hong Kong SPCA

Catherine S. CHAN (Lingnan University)

16:10-16:40

Discussion

13:50-17:00

Panel IV: Mobility, War, and Gender

Venue: Room S64, 6th Floor

13:50-15:00

Part 1

Chair: Shoko MIZUNO (Komazawa University)

13:50-14:10

The Lives of Amy and George Doo: A Microhistory of Trans-imperial Mobility in Asia, 1889-1943

Vivian KONG (University of Bristol)

14:10-14:30

Moving Beyond British Imperial Control: The Migration of Punjabis in Early 20th Century China

Kaori MIZUKAMI (Hosei University)

14:30-15:00

Discussion

15:00-15:30

Coffee/Tea Break

15:30-16:40

Part 2

Chair: Satoshi NAKANO (Hitotsubashi University)

15:30-15:50

Humanitarian Confluence: The Transcultural Formation of Red Cross Humanitarianism in Interwar Asia

Yoshiya MAKITA (Hitotsubashi University)

15:50-16:10

The Strategy of "Transnational" Collaboration: Okinawan Southern Expansion in 1940’s

Yuri OKUBO (University of Tokyo)

16:10-16:30

Picture Bride, War Bride: Gender, Migration, and the Japanese in America

Sonia C. GOMEZ (Santa Clara University)

16:30-17:00

Discussion

13:30-17:20

Panel V: Economy and Society

Venue: Room S65, 6th Floor

13:30-15:20

Part 1

Chair: Kazuhiko YAGO (Waseda University)

13:30-13:50

The Relationship between Market Interest Rates and International Capital in Shanghai in the First Half of the 20th Century

Hiroaki MOROTA (Takushoku University)

13:50-14:10

Direction of Reforms and Reaction from the Business Community: The Income Tax System during 1920s and 1930s Japan, UK and US

Shunsuke NAKAOKA (Kokushikan University)

14:10-14:30

French Bankers, Entrepreneurs, Industrialists and Engineers in the Far East from 1839 to 1939

Dominique BARJOT (French Academy of Overseas Sciences)

Franck MICHELIN (Teikyo University)

14:30-14:50

Economic Strategies and Colonial Minds: The Economists at the Keijo Imperial University

Yufei ZHOU (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

14:50-15:20

Discussion

15:20-15:50

Coffee/Tea Break

15:50-17:20

Part 2

Chair: Yinglin WANG (Komazawa University)

15:50-16:10

Global Meeting Place: Hong Kong and the Germans, 1842-1945

Bert BECKER (University of Hong Kong)

16:10-16:30

Cross-border Craftsmanship and Business Connections: Ningbonese Tailors in Yokohama and Shanghai

Katon LEE (Lingnan University)

16:30-16:50

Diasporic Entrepreneurship: The Role of Japanese Immigrants in Cotton Trade between Japan and Peru (1920s-1950s)

Ayumi TAKENAKA (Hitotsubashi University)

16:50-17:20

Discussion

18:00-19:30

Reception Party (Light Meals and Drinks; 2,000 yen)

Venue: Reception Hall, 21st Floor

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