A commemorative photo of the change of president on May 10, 2015
From left: Vice-President UCHIDA Keiichi, Ex-President ZHANG Qing, President WANG Min

Abstract: Previous studies of the sources of thought in Yan Fu’s Tianyan lun have failed to give sufficient attention to Francis Bacon. The source of Yan Fu’s ideal of a strong and prosperous China is, I think, none other than Bacon. This paper discusses Bacon as he appeared in Yan Fu’s Tianyan lun and political essays written at the time of Tianyan lun, and Bacon’s influence on Yan Fu.

Keywords: Science, Bacon, Western studies, Tianyan lun, Yan Fu
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Abstract: The fact that much of what the Japanese regard as part of their culture originally came to Japan from the Asian continent in ancient and medieval times is well known and has been extensively researched. For the period after 1868, however, the attention of scholars has tended to concentrate on Japan’s comprehensive importation of Western civilization. This exploratory article suggests a ifferent perspective. Taking music in modern Japan as an example and based in part on the author’s research for her recent book Not by Love Alone: The Violin in Japan, 1850‒2010, the author will argue that music is a particularly rewarding fi eld for examining transnational fl ows. Research on music in modern Japan has tended to privilege the introduction of European art music from the West and this was undoubtedly one of the most important developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. There are, however, aspects to this development that merit more attention than they have received so far, including the relationship between Western music and other musics practised in Japan in the nineteenth century and the interactions between Japan and non-Western countries and in particular its East Asian neighbours. In this article, four general themes for further enquiry are introduced: 1. The possible relation between Meiji statesmen’s and intellectuals’ kangaku education and their views on the role of music in the modern state. 2. The Chinese origins and the place of minshingaku (Ming and Qing music) in the musical culture of nineteenthcentury Japan. 3. Japan’s role in the dissemination of Western Music in East Asia. 4. The role of the East Asian continent (particularly the cities of  Shanghai and Harbin) as a place of encounter between Asia and Europe.

Keywords: music, East Asia, Japan, Korea, China, transnational flows, globalization
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Abstract: Many historians have examined why Singapore failed to be a major trading center before the nineteenth century. This paper revisits the current scholarly literature on the founding of Singapore to make two arguments. First, I argue that we cannot understand the founding of Singapore and its role in the British Second Empire without delineating Singapore’s role as a forest- and marine-goods metropolis in the precolonial Chinese trading networks of Southeast Asia. Second, I try to show how the Chinese kongsis 公司 of West Borneo turned Singapore into a forest- and marine-goods metropolis, formed their own political and social institutions, and collectively functioned as a third autonomous pseudostate power alongside the British and the Dutch. This reconceptualization enables us to see the founding of Singapore as a joint enterprise, and not a solely British achievement.

Keywords: British Empire, Chinese kongsis, forest and marine goods, Singapore, West Borneo
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Abstract: China studies in Germany has undergone great changes since the 1960s. Infl uenced by burgeoning area studies in the United States, German scholarship shifted from traditional philological studies focused on translating and interpreting Chinese classics to practical studies of modern Chinese politics, economy, law, etc. Hence, there was also a shift in research methodologies to  those of the social sciences. However, this shift, signifi cant as it is, can never replace traditional Sinological studies aimed at Chinese history and classics. This paper uses Chinese history as an example to explore the development of German academic Sinology. It points out that research in traditional Sinology, as well as in modern China studies, no longer focuses on a particular discipline, but rather follows the trend toward interdisciplinary, comprehensive research. Hence we can expect that China studies will become increasingly decentralized and interactive in the future development of the field.

Keywords: German Sinology, German China studies, Chinese history in Germany
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JIANG Keshi

Review of “Ajia” o Kangaeru 2000－2015 (Thinking about “Asia,” 2000－2015), Fujiwara Shoten editorial staff, ed., June, 2015.
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WANG Min

Review of Nihonjin wa Nihon o dō mitekita ka: Edo kara miru jiishiki no hensen (How the Japanese Have Viewed Japan: Changes in Views in the Edo Period), edited by Tanaka Yūko. Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2015.
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LOU Zhenghao

Review of Uō to Nihonjin: Chisuishin ga tsunagu Higashi Ajia (Yu the Great and the Japanese: East Asia Linked by the Sage-King Who Controlled the Flood Waters), by Wang Min. Tokyo: NHK Shuppan, 2014.5.
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HINO Yoshihiro

Digital Archive Projects at the Center for the Study of Asian Cultures at Kansai University
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Daniel W. STOWELL

Resources for Studying Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War around the World
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SATŌ Sora

The University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy
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MA Min

Impressions of the Seventeenth World Economic History Congress in Kyoto
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LIU Jiafeng

The 22nd International Congress of Historical Sciences Held in Jinan, China
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