ILCAA Joint Research Project

The Formation of Cultural Areas in East and Southeast Asia: the Tay Cultural Area and Others (jrp000179)

About the Project

Project term: April, 2011 - March, 2014

AIM OF PROJECT: Past research on the Tay Cultural Area has emphasized the influence of the surrounding pre-modern and modern states of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and Vietnam. With respect to China, research has mainly concentrated on the relationship of the TCA with Yunnan and Guangxi provinces. Researchers have tended to examine ethnic groups, culture and language within the framework of continental Southeast Asia. The TCA connects with the Chinese, Tibetan and Mongol worlds to the north, and with the maritime world of the Bay of Bengal in the south.
This project aims to analyse the history, culture and languages of the TCA from the macro-perspective of a north-south axis. The principle purpose is to clarify how the history, culture and languages of the TCA changed with contact and interaction between ethnic groups and political regimes located both north and south. It sets out to examine how changes in the Tibetan, Mongol and Chinese worlds influenced the Tay Cultural Area. By taking the TCA as a case study, the project aims to contribute to the elucidation of the formation process of cultural areas in East and Southeast Asia.

Members

Coordinator

• Christian Ashley DANIELS (ILCAA)

ILCAA Staff

• Tatsuo NAKAMI

Joint Researchers

• Akiko IIJIMA
• Akira YANAGISAWA
• Atsushi YAMADA
• Chiyoko NAGATANI
• Hiroki OKA
• Kenji TATEISHI
• Mamoru HAGIHARA
• Masaru NISHITANI
• Naomichi KUROSAWA
• Naoto KATOU
• Noriyuki YAMADA
• Saho HIROKAWA
• Seiichiro YOSHIZAWA
• Tadahiko SHINTANI
• Takashi KATO
• Tatsuki KATAOKA
• Toru SHIMIZU
• Toshihiko KISHI
• Yoshiki ENATSU
• Yoshinari WATANABE

Outputs

Meetings

The 13th meeting

• Date/Time: 20 March 2014 (Thu.) 14:00-15:30(open), 15:30-16:00(closed)
• Venue: Room 303, ILCAA
• ILCAA Forum (open)

• Dr.Wulan (Ulaγan) (ILCAA Visiting Professor/Research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthoroplogy, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

  “On the Manususcropts of the Secret History of the Mongols”

• Business meeting (closed)

The 12th meeting : Report(Japanese)(162KB)

• Date/Time: 12 October 2013 (Sat.) 13:00-18:30
• Venue: Room 304, ILCAA

• Nagisa ITO (PhD Candidate, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)

  “Technology Embedded in a Social Context; textiles from the Xamneua, Huaphan Province in Northern Laos”

  Noriyuki OSADA(Research Associate, Institute of Developing Economies)

  “The Transformation of Urban Plural Society in British Colonial Rangoon and the Emergence of the Burmese State”

The 11th meeting : Report(Japanese)(188KB)

• Date/Time: 11 May 2013 (Sat.) 13:00-18:30
• Venue: Room 304, ILCAA

• Ken’ichi TAKAKURA (Kanagawa University)

  “Tourist Development as a Cultural Resource and Residents; the Case of the Old City in Lijiang, Yunnan”.

  Yasuyo MORINAGA (Kyoto Women’s University)

  “Administration of Yunnan after the Three Feudatories Rebellion with a focus on Cai Yurong”.

The 10th meeting : Report(Japanese)(144KB)

• Date/Time: 6 April 2013 (Sat.) 13:30-18:30
• Venue: Room 304 (Multimedia Conference Room), ILCAA

• Masashi NARA (Tsukuba University)

  “The Development of the Dawah movement in Chinese Muslims who move around scattered communities; the case of transregional Islamic study groups in Yunnan Province, China”

  Tadahiko SHINTANI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Some Thoughts on ‘Language’ and ‘Ethnic Groups’; movement and contact from north to south”

The 9th meeting : Report(Japanese)(232KB)

• Date/Time: 27 October 2012 (Sat.) 13:00-18:30
• Venue: Room 304 (Multimedia Conference Room), ILCAA

• Mio HORIE (Kyoto University)

  “Marriage and Migration among Lahu Women in South-west China; the influence of women married to Han men from other Provinces on their villages”

  Yoshinari WATANABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Okayama University)

  “The Histories of Multi-ethnic Cultural Areas in Myanmar Prior to the Tenth Century, with particular Reference to the Pyu, the Piao and the Mon”

The 8th meeting : Report(Japanese)(179KB)

• Date/Time: 6 October 2012 (Sat.) 13:00-18:30
• Venue: Room 304 (Multimedia Conference Room), ILCAA

• Naoto MOCHIZUKI (Kyoto University)

  “The Nature of the Kaungton Treaty (1769) between Qing China and Konbaung Burma: Qing’s participation in the International Order as seen in Chinese Sources”

The 7th meeting : Report(Japanese)(141KB)

• Date/Time: 23 June 2012 (Sat.) 13:00-18:30
• Venue: Room 304 (Multimedia Conference Room), ILCAA

• Shintaro ICHIHARA (Meiji University)

  “The Policy Towards Non-Han Peoples in Guizhou Prefecture during the Kangxi Period(1661-1722)”

  Shin’ichiro BAN (Otani University)

  “The Importance of Amdo Tibetan Rulers in Tibeto-Mongolian Relations during the Period when the Dalai Lama’s Regime was Established; The Background to the Spread of Tibetan Buddhism to Mongolia by the Zina Ruler of Xinings”

The 6th meeting : Report(Japanese)(209KB)

• Date/Time: 14 April 2012 (Sat.) 13:00-18:30
• Venue: Room 304 (Multimedia Conference Room), ILCAA

• Discussion by all Joint Research Project Members

  Discussion on proposed contributions to upcoming book on upland society in the Tay Cultural Area

  Aika TOMITA (Kyoto University)

  “Tone change in two successive syllables in the Jinghong Dialect of Tai Lue”

  Tadahiko SHINTANI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Linguistic Perspectives on the history of the Karen Peoples”

The 5th meeting

• Date/Time: 5 December 2011 (Mon.) 13:30-17:30
• Venue: Hongo Satellite 5F
• Language: Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian

• Oyungerel (Inner Mongolia University, Nihon University)

  “Foreign Merchants in the Mongolian Banners”

  Oyunjargal (Mongolian national University)

  “The Land Question in Mongolia under the Qing Dynasty”

  Yi Baozhong (Jilin University, Kyoto University)

  “Development and its Compensation: Ecological Environment in Northeast China”

The 4th meeting : Report(Japanese)(241KB)

• Date/Time：16 October 2011 (Sun.) 13:30-18:30
• Venue：Room 304 (Multismedia Conference Room), ILCAA

• Kenji TATEISHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokai University)

  “Critical Review of the Recent Book by KURIHARA Satoru, ‘The Diverse World of Yunnan; History, Ethnic Groups and Culture’”

  Junichi TERAI (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Cultural Interaction between Pagan and Surrounding Regions, 11th to 13th Centuries”

The 3rd meeting : Report(Japanese)(176KB)

• Date/Time：1 October 2011 (Sat.) 13:30-18:30
• Venue：Room 304 (Multismedia Conference Room), ILCAA

• Tadahiko SHINTANI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Some phonological features of the Yao language of Jinping county”

  Yuko TOKUYASU (Kyushu Dental College)

  “The Living Space of the Katang, a Hill People in Laos; space born by people and animistic spirits”

  Mitsuru SONOE (Tokyo Agricultural University)

  “The Tay as Hill Peoples; Various aspects of rice culture in Laos”

The 2nd meeting : Report(Japanese)(254KB)

• Date/Time：7 May 2011 (Sat.) 13:30-18:30
• Venue：Room 304 (Multismedia Conference Room), ILCAA

• Discussion by all Joint Research Project Members

  Discussion on proposed contributions to upcoming book on upland society in the Tay Cultural Area.

  Kanako KIMURA (Kyoto University)

  “Ming Dynasty Foreign policy and Its Suzerain-Vassal Relationship with Ayutthaya”

  Masato YOSHIKAI (Hokkaido University)

  “The Development of the discourse on Miao History in the 20th Century and The Historical Image of China and Thailand”

The 1st meeting : Report(Japanese)(182KB)

• Date/Time：10 April 2011 (Sun.) 13:30-18:30
• Venue：Room 304 (Multismedia Conference Room), ILCAA

• Christian DANIELS (ILCAA)

  “Concerning the New project :The Formation of the Cultural Areas in East and Southeast Asia: the Tay Cultural Area and Others”

  Discussion by all Joint Research Project Members

  Discussion on proposed contributions to upcoming book on upland society in the Tay Cultural Area.

  Noriyuki YAMADA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University)

  “Between the Chinese and Tibetan Worlds: the Mu Native Chieftains of the Naxi ethnic group in Lijiang, Yunnan”

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