ILCAA Joint Research Project

New perspectives of Text Studies in Yunnan, China (jrp000217)

Keywords

• Yunnan
• text
• writing culture
• Tay cultural area

Areas

• Yunnan
• Thailand
• Myanmar
• Laos
• Vietnam
• Tibet

Website

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2015–March, 2018

The Yunnan area, the southwestern province of China and its adjacent area, is characterized as multi-ethnic and multicultural. Many local texts from this area are still written in the characters of Thai-Tai, Tibetan, Chinese, Mongolian, Arabic, Latin, and some other language having unique characters such as Tompa or Yi. Researchers have mainly focused their attention on finding local texts, annotating them, and analyzing their contents. The present project will not only continue to accumulate primary data such as texts but also develop a comprehensive study of texts on the basis of new perspectives, as follows: (1) Text as tools: literacy, education, relationship with oral literature etc., (2) Text as records: bibliography, analysis of contents, focus on specificity etc., and (3) Human activities around texts: creation, classification, copy, preservation, tradition, rejection etc.

Members

Coordinator

• Atsushi YAMADA (Japan Health Care College)

ILCAA Staff

• Hideo SAWADA
• Izumi HOSHI

Joint Researchers

• Mio HORIE
• Akiko IIJIMA
• Tsutomu INAMURA
• Satoru ITO
• Akimasa KAWANO
• Naomichi KUROSAWA
• Chiyoko NAGATANI
• Masashi NARA
• Kazutaka NISHIKAWA
• Takashi NOMOTO
• Toru SHIMIZU
• Tadahiko SHINTANI
• Kenji TATEISHI
• Aika TOMITA
• Atsushi YAMADA
• Noriyuki YAMADA
• Akira YOSHINO

Outputs

Meetings

The 8th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(168KB)

• Date/Time: Sun 18 Mar 2018 13:00–18:00
• Venue: Room 304, ILCAA

• Tsutomu INAMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ryukyu University)

  “The end of “folklore”: On the traditional knowledge of Hani ethnic group and Kunio Yanagita”

  Hideo SAWADA (ILCAA)

  “Writing systems in Yunnan and adjacent area, from the viewpoint of Southeast Asian Indic Scripts”

  All members

  Discussion

The 7th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(168KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 2 Dec 2017 13:00–18:00
• Venue: Room 304, ILCAA

• Satoru ITO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, JSPS/Kyoto Bunkyo University)

  “A study on the current situation of the buddhist literature Lik Yaat of Dehong Tai”

  Toru SHIMIZU (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nihon University)

  “Concerning Yi language dictionary”

  All members

  Discussion

The 6th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(192KB)

• Date/Time: Sun ２ Jul 2017 13:00–18:00
• Venue: Room 304, ILCAA

• Akira YOSHINO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo Gakugei University)

  Mien song texts and song language in northern Thailand

  Gaku KAJIMARU (Kyoto University)

  Comments on Yoshino’s report

  Akimasa KAWANO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University), Kenji KANNO (Tokyo University of Science)

  About Xiao Jieyi A brief History of Cizhong Catholic and Catholic Missionary History of Northwest Yunnan

  All members

  Discussion

The 5th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(125KB)

• Date/Time: Sun 4 Dec2016 13:00–18:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Kenji TATEISHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokai University)

  “A Study of Texts of the Bai people in Dali, Yunnan Province of China: Its Current Status and Issues”

  Gaku KAJIMARU (Kyoto City University of Arts)

  “To write lyrics and to sing lyrics: a case study of Mountain Song in Guizhou”

  All members

  Discussion

The 4th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(133KB)

• Date/Time: Sun 19 Jun 2016 13:00–18:00
• Venue: Room 304, ILCAA

• Kazutaka NISHIKAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kokushikan University)

  “The Opium in Yunnan from the Late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China”

  Yoshiyuki AIHARA (Toyo Bunko, NIHU)

  “A brief introduction to forestry-related document research in southeastern Guizhou Qingshuijiang valley”

  Masashi NARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hokkaido University)

  “Islamic education and texts in Hui people”

  All members

  Discussion

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(135KB)

• Date/Time: Sun 6 Dec 2015 13:30–18:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Naomichi KUROSAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kokugakuin University)

  “An overview of Naxi Language Texts”

  Noriyuki YAMADA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka Seikei College)

  “Summary of the Historical sources on Naxi Tribe: A case of Tibetan, Mongolian, Manchurian sources”

  All members

  Discussion

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(123KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 18 Jul 2015 13:00–18:00
• Venue: Room 304, ILCAA

• Akimasa KAWANO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University)

  “Epitaph materials of Yangon Yunnan grave Garden”

  Takashi NOMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Teikyo University Junior College)

  “Generation and syncretism, heterogeneity of the text in Yunnan regional history”

  All members

  Discussion

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)(114KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 23 May 2015 13:00–18:00
• Venue: Room 304, ILCAA

• Introduction

  Atsushi YAMADA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Japan Health Care College)

  “Texts and literacy in the Wa speaking people”

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

  “Particulars of our researches in Tay cultural area”

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