Key words: China, Japan, Korea, East Asia, Cultural InteractionThis paper attempts to incorporate the history of East Asian cultural interactions into the field of regional history, and toward that end proposes that certain subjects to be explored. The paper consists of five sections. Section 1 draws attention to the newer fields of regional history and global history, as distinct from national history, which occupied great academic interest in the twentieth century. Section 2 suggests a new way to study regional history: shifting our focus from the results of cultural interactions to the process, thus bringing about a paradigm shift in the study of the history of East Asian cultural interactions. Section 3 raises two problematiques in the proposed field of regional history: the mutual influence between self and other, and that between culture and the power structure. Section 4 proposes three types of exchange for further research: (1) exchanges of persons (especially professional intermediate agents), (2) exchanges of goods (especially books), and (3) exchanges of thought.　The last section concludes that, with the rising of East Asian countries on the world stage in the twenty-first century, the state-centered style of historical study will be redirected to a broader East Asian perspective. By redefining the history of East Asian cultural interactions as regional history, we will be able to undertake the important task of revisiting and reconsidering on our traditional cultures.

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Key words: antagonistic acculturation, modernization of the non-Western society, Herodianism and Zealotism,
non-Western nationalism, Chinese Westernizers / Japanese Europeanizers / Korean reformers, national essence ideology
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Key words: Edo period, Junk, Sino-Japanese interaction, Nagasaki, Zhapu
To maintain its policy of national isolation during the Edo periodera, [Au: In English, an era is a longer period of time than a period. Hence, Edo era versus Genroku period.] Japan restricted contact with the outside world to Dutch merchant ships and Chinese junks [Au: This term is better introduced in the text] at the Japanese port of Nagasaki. Sino-Japanese interaction consisted not only of trade in goods, but also of cultural and scholarly exchanges. This paper will examine how this unofficial trade affected both Japan and China from a cultural perspective.
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-Huang Yinong , Liangtou she: Ming mo Qing chu de diyi dai Tianzhujiaotu Reviewed by INTŌ Kazuhiro-Funo Shūji, Mandara toshi: Hindū toshi no kūkan ri’nen to sono hen’yō Reviewed by HASHITERA Tomoko

-Tanigawa Ken’ichi, Yomigaeru kaijō no michi: Nihon to Ryūkyū Reviewed by OKAMOTO Hiromichi

-Senda Minoru (editor), Ajia no jidai no chirigaku: Dentō to henkaku Reviewed by NISHIMURA Masanari

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-Chinese Civilisation Center, City University of Hong Kong: A modern Approach to Chinese Tradition (香港城市大學 中國文化中心)-Department of Japanese Kanbun Instruction and Research Program, Nishōgakusha University (二松學舍大學 日本漢學專攻)

-Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome (羅馬大學 東方研究學部)

-Institute for Cultural Interaction Studies, Kansai University (關西大學 文化交涉學教育研究中心)

-Institute for Japanese Studies, Korea University (高麗大學 日本學研究所)

-Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University (京都大學 人文科學研究所)

-The China Research Center of Overseas Sinology of the Beijing Foreign Studies University (北京外國語大學 中國海外漢學研究中心)

-The Institute of Chinese Modern History, Central China Normal University (華中師範大學 中國近代史研究所)

-The Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica (中央研究院 歷史語言研究所)

-The National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University (復旦大學 文史研究院)

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-Report on the workshop at Columbia University　MASUDA Chikako-Report on the International Convention of Asia Scholars 6　KIMURA Mizuka

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