Japanese and East Asian Development in the Long 19th Century: A Critical Reappraisal
This workshop critically reappraises social, intellectual, and environmental changes in a period we label Japan’s long 19th century (late 18th century through to the early 20th century) that have commonly been subsumed under the labels of “modernization” and “modernity.” It explores the possibility of new temporal and spatial perspectives that can be seen as viable alternatives to modernization and modernity frameworks commonly used in scholarship.
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Programme
Day 1 (Thursday, 22 September, 2022)
| Greetings | 9:30 am | A/P Timothy Amos
Dr Akiko Ishii |
| Session 1:
Finding Alternative Visions in Tokugawa Japan
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10:00 am | Kumazawa Banzan and Civil Engineering Projects in 17th Century Japan
Dr Akiko Ishii (National University of Singapore)
Japan’s Water Capital: Towards a New Developmentalist History of Pre-Meiji Osaka A/P Timothy Amos (National University of Singapore) |
| Morning Tea | 11:00 am | |
| Session 2:
Conditions for New Knowledge |
11:30 am | Chair: A/P Timothy Amos
The Experience of Self-Deceit and Theories of Knowledge: Warrior Society in Tokugawa Japan Dr Olivier Ansart (University of Sydney)
In Which Motoori Norinaga Answers "What is Poetry?" Dr Scot Hislop (National University of Singapore)
Meiji Citizens’ Pocketbooks for Social Information in the 1870s and 80s Dr Takeshi Moriyama (Murdoch University) |
| Lunch | 1:00 pm | |
| Session 3:
Modern Development: Prehistories and Calibrations |
2:00 pm | Chair: Dr Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore)
Feudal Remnants?: The Modern Life of Japan's Homegrown Iron Industry Dr Joanna Linzer (Harvard University Center for the Environment)
Tokyo’s First City Parks: The Making of Public Green Spaces in the Meiji Period A/P Roderick Wilson (University of Illinois)
Expertise that Travels: “Japanese River” in Early Modern Indo-China A/P Phan Hai Linh (VNU-USSH Hanoi) |
| Afternoon Tea | 3:30 pm |
Day 2 (Friday, 23 September, 2022)
| Session 4:
Development Viewed from the Periphery |
9:30 am | Chair: Dr Akiko Ishii
[Online] Local Historical Reconstruction of the Changing Relationship Between Forests and People in Japan: A Case Study of Hirosaki Domain in the 19th century Dr Masahito Kayaba (Tokugawa Institute for the History of Forestry)
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| Morning Tea | 10:10 am | |
| Session 5:
Rethinking Development in East Asia |
10:40 am | Chair: Dr Akiko Ishii
Waste Not: Thinking with Excrement about Nineteenth-Century Japan Prof David L. Howell (Harvard University)
Development and Nature during the Qing Dynasty Prof Yoichi Miyazaki (Taisho University)
Traditional Rural Landscapes on the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan: Historical Context, Geographical Extent, and Conservation Prospects A/P Bixia Chen (University of the Ryukyus)
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| Lunch | 12:10 pm | |
| Roundtable
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1:30 pm | Developmental Modernization and the Construction of Asia
Prof Tessa Morris-Suzuki (Australia National University) Prof David L. Howell (Harvard University) - Moderator
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| Afternoon Tea | 3:00 pm | |
| Wrap-up discussion | 3:30 pm |
Date
Venue
AS7-01-16/17/18