Pub Date : 2017-05-01DOI: 10.1515/jciea-2017-080106
Zhang Qing
Now is not the first time that the problem of constructing Chinese academic discourse has been raised. This problem has repeatedly arisen ever since the advent of modernity in China. In essential form, it arose when, at the end of the Qing dynasty (1644‒1911), China, as a result of outsider infl uence, faced challenges that had never before occurred in its three-thousand-year history. As the Zhuangzi states, “Scholars, with their controversies, will rend the empire asunder.”1 It is in this context that modern Chinese scholarship has developed. Hence, it is necessary to consider this background in discussing the long-term development of modern Chinese thought and scholarship. On this basis we can assert that knowing the origin of the problem not only helps us to understand it, but also enables us to see that such a problem, even today, will provoke spirited discussion, and that we may have to reorient our work accordingly. Otherwise, we will end up repeatedly raising issues of the past and will fi nd it diffi cult give the problem depth.
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Pub Date : 2017-05-01DOI: 10.1515/jciea-2017-080114
Inoue Jun
{"title":"News About Shibusawa Eiichi Denki Shiryo Digital Version","authors":"Inoue Jun","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2017-080114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2017-080114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"183 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114527603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-05-01DOI: 10.1515/jciea-2017-080104
Chun-Chieh Huang
{"title":"Food Ethics in Ancient China: A Confucian Perspective","authors":"Chun-Chieh Huang","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2017-080104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2017-080104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116447619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-01DOI: 10.1515/jciea-2016-070118
Satō Sora
{"title":"The University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy","authors":"Satō Sora","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2016-070118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2016-070118","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127440589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-01DOI: 10.1515/jciea-2016-070114
Wang Min
{"title":"Review of Nihonjin wa Nihon o dō mitekita ka: Edo kara miru jiishiki no hensen (How the Japanese Have Viewed Japan: Changes in Views in the Edo Period), edited by Tanaka Yūko. Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2015.","authors":"Wang Min","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2016-070114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2016-070114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126325323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-01DOI: 10.1515/jciea-2016-070115
Lou Zhenghao
{"title":"Review of Uō to Nihonjin: Chisuishin ga tsunagu Higashi Ajia (Yu the Great and the Japanese: East Asia Linked by the Sage-King Who Controlled the Flood Waters), by Wang Min. Tokyo: NHK Shuppan, 2014","authors":"Lou Zhenghao","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2016-070115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2016-070115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"700 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116100032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-01DOI: 10.1515/jciea-2016-070111
Ling Xuetao
Abstract China studies in Germany has undergone great changes since the 1960s. Influenced by burgeoning area studies in the United States, German scholarship shifted from traditional philological studies focused on translating and interpreting Chinese classics to practical studies of modern Chinese politics, economy, law, etc. Hence, there was also a shift in research methodologies to those of the social sciences. However, this shift, significant as it is, can never replace traditional Sinological studies aimed at Chinese history and classics. This paper uses Chinese history as an example to explore the development of German academic Sinology. It points out that research in traditional Sinology, as well as in modern China studies, no longer focuses on a particular discipline, but rather follows the trend toward interdisciplinary, comprehensive research. Hence we can expect that China studies will become increasingly decentralized and interactive in the future development of the field.
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Pub Date : 2016-05-01DOI: 10.1515/jciea-2016-070104
Shimazono Susumu
Research Report from Germany’s Ethics Committee Germany immediately established an ethics committee and decided to abandon nuclear power after the March 11 Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, which indicates that nuclear power plants are an ethical issue. The reason that the ethics committee was formed is included in the report. Germany’s action subsequently had a tremendous impact on Japan. Ethics are an important issue in social policy; in fact, I believe the concept that ethics is the determinant factor has tremendous resonance in Japan. What is the defi nition of ethics in the joint venture report for safe energy in Germany? There are about fi fteen people on the committee, of whom three are representatives of Christian churches. There are some scientists, but there are more committee members in the humanities. Of course safe energy is a problem of science and technology, but it is also an issue of public policy and the choices we make about how to live. I think that’s the realization. Looking at the content of the report, however, it is written comparatively logically. What appears in the report is the “concept that is key to ethical value judgments is having sustainability and responsibility.” As we heard a few minutes ago, the German committee’s fundamental concept is sustainability and responsibility for future generations. This is also paraphrased as the interaction between humans and nature or the relationship between society and nature. When it comes to ethics in Christianity and European culture, we are not simply talking about rules. Naturally, our sense of values is based on culture. While we inherit our sense of right and wrong from our traditions, we also formulate our own sense of values. In Europe, the consensus is that humans have the responsibility to protect and pass down the environment granted to them from God. It is a position based on the inheritance of religious tradi-
{"title":"Questions Raised by the Nuclear Power Accident of March 11, 2011","authors":"Shimazono Susumu","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2016-070104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2016-070104","url":null,"abstract":"Research Report from Germany’s Ethics Committee Germany immediately established an ethics committee and decided to abandon nuclear power after the March 11 Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, which indicates that nuclear power plants are an ethical issue. The reason that the ethics committee was formed is included in the report. Germany’s action subsequently had a tremendous impact on Japan. Ethics are an important issue in social policy; in fact, I believe the concept that ethics is the determinant factor has tremendous resonance in Japan. What is the defi nition of ethics in the joint venture report for safe energy in Germany? There are about fi fteen people on the committee, of whom three are representatives of Christian churches. There are some scientists, but there are more committee members in the humanities. Of course safe energy is a problem of science and technology, but it is also an issue of public policy and the choices we make about how to live. I think that’s the realization. Looking at the content of the report, however, it is written comparatively logically. What appears in the report is the “concept that is key to ethical value judgments is having sustainability and responsibility.” As we heard a few minutes ago, the German committee’s fundamental concept is sustainability and responsibility for future generations. This is also paraphrased as the interaction between humans and nature or the relationship between society and nature. When it comes to ethics in Christianity and European culture, we are not simply talking about rules. Naturally, our sense of values is based on culture. While we inherit our sense of right and wrong from our traditions, we also formulate our own sense of values. In Europe, the consensus is that humans have the responsibility to protect and pass down the environment granted to them from God. It is a position based on the inheritance of religious tradi-","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128265149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-01DOI: 10.1515/jciea-2016-070101
W. Min
{"title":"Toward Responsibility for a Cooperative “East Asian Era:” New Developments in Cultural Interaction Studies in East Asia","authors":"W. Min","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2016-070101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2016-070101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116524900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-01DOI: 10.1515/jciea-2016-070119
M. Min
{"title":"Impressions of the Seventeenth World Economic History Congress in Kyoto","authors":"M. Min","doi":"10.1515/jciea-2016-070119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jciea-2016-070119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439452,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128577258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}