Macalester Collegeとの研究会・董少新教授によるセミナー /Research seminar with Macalester College, Seminar by Dong Shaoxin

2017.12.26

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2017年12月19日（火）に、二つのGHCセミナーが連続して開催された。第一は、アメリカのMacalester Collegeの研究者４名を迎えたセミナーである。一行を率いるTam Yue-him教授とGHC東京拠点代表の羽田は、2015年12月に香港で開催された国際会議で出会い、情報・意見交換を行った。その縁で、一か月ほど前にTam教授から羽田に連絡があり、日本を訪れるので、東大東洋文化研究所で研究会を開催できないかとの打診があった。せっかくの貴重な機会なので、GHC東京拠点はこの要請を受け入れ、セミナーを開催することにした。会合は、Tam教授が司会を担当し、他の３人の研究者が順次報告を行う形で行われた。報告者と報告題目は、以下の通りである。 1. Ernesto Capello (Associate Professor), “Havana’s Barrio Chin and Cuban Revolutionary Urbanism” 2. Connor Boyle (PhD candidate), “Submission, Sages and the True Lord: Islamic Principles in Ocean’s Shores by Ma Huan” 3. Jessica Pearson (Assistant Professor), “Between Leisure and Empire: Franco-Asian Voyages in the Age of Air Travel” Capelloは、Barrio Chinと呼ばれるハバナの中国人町の19世紀における誕生から現代に至るまでの盛衰をキューバ革命の展開と絡めて説明した。Boyleは、鄭和の航海に二度同行した馬歓が著した『瀛涯勝覧』を読み込み、著者のイスラーム理解の特徴を論じた。Pearsonは、第二次世界大戦直後のフランス領インドシナへの観光旅行の宣伝と1970年代以後のパリで形成された中国人町（実際は、ベトナム人町）の現実とを比較しながら、「帝国」とその遺産の関連を示した。それぞれの報告後には、多くの質問や意見が出され、報告者たちとの間で活発な意見交換が行われた。授業期間中のウィークデーの昼間の開催だったので、参加者数は必ずしも多くはなかったが、出席者はグローバルヒストリー的な見方と議論の面白さを堪能したはずである。第二は、研究者交換の枠組みで東洋文化研究所に滞在中の董少新（Dong Shaoxin）教授（復旦大学文史研究院）によるセミナーである。”Tartar in the Eyes of Europeans in the Seventeenth Century”と題する講演で、董教授は17世紀の明・清宮廷を訪れたイエズス会士による報告資料を文献学的な手法によって紹介し、その歴史資料としての豊かな可能性の一端を論じた。報告後の討論では、イエズス会報告のバイアス、同じ対象を扱った漢文資料とイエズス会文献の間での解釈の微妙な相違、イエズス会資料のグローバルヒストリー的研究など、多くの興味深い論点が出され、充実した意見交換が行われた。

Two GHC seminars were held consecutively on December 19, 2017. The first was a seminar with four researchers from Macalester College in the United States. Prof. Tam Yuehim, a leading researcher in the field, and Prof. Haneda, representative of the GHC base at the University of Tokyo, first met at an international conference held in Hong Kong in December 2015 and have since engaged in the exchange of information and ideas. Because of this connection, approximately one month ago, Prof. Tam contacted Prof. Haneda that he would be visiting Japan and inquired whether a seminar could be held at Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo. Given the preciousness of such an opportunity, the GHC base at the University of Tokyo agreed to hold a seminar. Dr. Tam facilitated the seminar with each researcher presenting their research in succession. The titles of the presentations and names of the presenters were as follows:

Ernesto Capello (Associate Professor), “Havana’s Barrio Chin and Cuban Revolutionary Urbanism”;
Connor Boyle (PhD candidate), “Submission, Sages and the True Lord: Islamic Principles in Ocean’s Shores by Ma Huan”;
Jessica Pearson (Assistant Professor), “Between Leisure and Empire: Franco-Asian Voyages in the Age of Air Travel.”

Capello explained the rise and fall of “Barrio Chin,” Havana’s Chinatown, from its emergence in the 19th century to the present in relationship to the development of the Cuban Revolution. Boyle examined the book Yingya Shenglan [The Overall Survey of the Ocean’s Shores] by Ma Huan, who accompanied Zheng He on two ocean voyages, and discussed the author’s understanding of Islam. Pearson discussed the relationship between “Empire” and its legacy by comparing advertisements for tourist travel to French Indochina immediately after the end of WWII and Paris’ Chinatown (actually Vietnam town) since the 1970s. Each presentation was followed by numerous questions and the expression of views, making for a lively exchange of ideas between the presenters and seminar attendees. Because the seminar was held on a weekday in the middle of the day, during class hours, there were not as many participants as there otherwise might have been. Nonetheless, it is certain that those who attended were able to experience the excitement of discussion from a global history perspective.

The second seminar was by Prof. Dong Shaoxin (Fudan University National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies), who is currently visiting the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia as an exchange researcher. In his lecture titled “Tartar in the Eyes of Europeans in the Seventeenth Century,” Prof. Dong, using philological methods, introduced reports by Jesuit priests who visited Ming and Qing imperial courts in the 17th century and discussed the rich potential of such works as historical documents. Prof. Dong’s presentation was followed by a substantial exchange of ideas in which various views were presented, including biases in the Jesuit reports, subtle discrepancies in interpretation between Jesuit and Chinese-language texts on the same subject, and the investigation of Jesuit texts from a global history perspective.