The 'Global' and the 'Local' in Early Modern and Modern East Asia

Abstract

List of Contributers Introduction: An Overview, by Benjamin A. Elman Part 1 Is World History Possible? 1 Is There Still Value in National History in the Trend towards Global History?, by Zhaoguang Ge 2 Is a World History of Ideas Possible?, by Federico Marcon Part 2 What Forms of Globalization Took Shape in Traditional East Asia? 3 Conditional Universality and World History in Modern Philosophy in East Asia, by Nakajima Takahiro 4 A New Global History and Regional Histories, by Masashi Haneda 5 A Jointly Regional-Global Approach to Rethinking Early Modern East Asian History, by Benjamin A. Elman Part 3 How Did Internationalism Emerge in Modern Chinese and Japanese Higher Education? 6 Internationalization from Within: 140 Years of Internationalization at the University of Tokyo. By Jin Sato 7 Global History in China: Inheritance and Innovation-A Case Study of the Development of World History in the History Department of Fudan University, by Yunshen Gu Part 4 Doing 'World' or 'Global' History as 'Transnational' History 8 From 'East Asia' to 'East Asian Maritime Worlds': The Pros and Cons of the Construction of a Historical World, by Shaoxin Dong 9 From Sri Lanka to East Asia: A Short History of a Buddhist Scripture, by Norihisa Baba 10 'Nobody Changed Their Old Customs'-Tang Views on the History of the World, by Tineke D'Haeseleer 11 The Korean Response to Xue Xuan's Enshrinement in the Ming Confucian Temples, by Xinlei Wang 12 Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century World, by Yasushi Oki 13 Tales of an Open World: The Fall of the Ming Dynasty as Dutch Tragedy, Chinese Rumor, and Global News, by Paize Keulemans 14 The Regulation of Sailors in the Maritime Trade between Jiangnan and Nagasaki in Early Qing China, by Zhenzhong Wang 15 The Transnational History of Japanese Thrift, by Sheldon Garon Coda, by Benjamin A. Elman Index