Ming-Ch'ing Studies in Japan

1984

Bibliographic Data

ID15028077
AuthorsIshibashi Takao (corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume8
Issue1
Pages167-186
Publication date1987-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLate imperial China (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0884-3236 • E-ISSN: 1086-3257
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/late.1987.0004
OpenAlexW2174251117
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

Vol. 8, No. 1 Late Imperial ChinaJune 1987 MING-CH'ING STUDIES IN JAPAN: 1984 Ishibashi Takao Shigaku zasshi* Translated by Joshua A. Fogel Until recently studies in Ming and Ch'ing history have been concerned with trying to elucidate social and economic processes of development in land relations. This has led to a thinning in the ranks of scholars in fields other than social and economic history, and to an ossification of other research topics. In the field of Ch'ing history, the Ch'ing dynasty has generally been seen both as an alien conquest dynasty and as the last native "Chinese-style" autocratic dynasty in an agricultural society. The Ch'ing did have this dual quality, but few have examined the issue comprehensively . It would be no exaggeration to say that the two sides have been severed and researched separately. The tendency to treat the period before the Manchus entered China separately from the period after, and the fact that few scholars have examined the eight gusa (banners) system of banner lands and imperial villas in social and economic historical research, provide but one reflection of this problem. In reviewing the over 120 books and articles concerning last year's research, I see no radical change in this situation. Yet, in looking for new points of view and issues, we should pay particular attention to the publication of several symposia. I begin with these. Symposia The volume, Chugoku Kônan no inasaku bunka, sono gakujutsu teki kenkyu ^ if) M ,$) O ^L-|f & -# and Sakurai Yumio £$· 4f F %^t , represents the record of the "Kiangnan Delta Symposium" held in July 1977 at the Southeast Asia Research Center of Kyoto University. Using natural science and relying on field * Shigaku zasshi, 94.5 (May 1985), 218-225. 167 168Joshua A. Fogel work, the papers at the symposium raised criticisms of the theories of East Asian scholars who have based their work concerning the opening of the Kiangnan delta solely on written records. The collected essays from the conference are: (1)"On huo-keng shui-nou1 ^ ^M- jfc, ¿4 : Early Reclamation of the Delta,"^ (2)"On Polder Lands (yii-t'ien if v£> ) and Enclosed Lands (wei-t'ien|#1 % ·>" "*¦ ^t 4 -^ I* ^- ifZ 1*1 &X fat %t^*>$ifàM·- r*Ä" « t$¿(f^l£ (1983 Symposium on Chinese History: A Reinvestigation of State "Control" and the Image of the People in Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing times: the Distinctive Nature of Chinese "Control"; Fukuoka, Kyushu University Press). This volume is the report of the symposium convened in July 1983, and it followed two other conferences: "Problems Concerning Rent Resistance Struggles" tfL %L 4fl f o -i* lS| M,(held in 1980 at the East Asian History Department, Hokkaido University), and "The Perspective of Local Society: Local Society and Leadership" $& ^H. ^* -4î~ 1 This was a kind of slash-and-burn method used in early Chinese agriculture to make the soil more fertile. Hoshi Ayao, Chugoku shakai keizai shi goi (A Glossary for Chinese Social and Economic History, Tokyo. Töyö bunko, 1966; hereafter, Hoshi), p. 29. Ming-Ch'ing Studies in Japan: 1984169 -· "? ; (2)Ido Kazutada 4f P — 1A , "On the Imperial Bodyguard in the Yuan: Military Structure and Military Officials" iL 4*? *) -i¡h .^Ijufco.-c.· % » *f¡ >* - f « iE t'c ¿-.; (3)Wada Masahiro f? *0 ¡L JU "The Examination System in the Ming Dynasty and the Literati" d^ "Political Factions in the Wan-li Period and the Literati: On the Ministry of Personnel in the Wan-li 20's [1592-1601]" T ^jfij *> A**/*. *fc i ±***Ä--t %?% jty| fc >$ *$ ^. i i K K . The second part includes: (1)Soda Hiroshi ${ F ?>?- , "Establishment Ideology and Popular Thought in the Ming Dynasty" tf/j ft U ^- [-f-3 4^#) >\ ¿r' J[ *> K - t ft # & & ; (2)Asai Motoi >^ =r| (^Î* , "Religious Societies and the People in the Ming and Ch'ing" ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ***&$. ; / 70Joshua A. Fogel (3)Watanabe Atsushi y%_ ^p «f^. , "Secret Societies and the People in the Ch'ing Dynasty in the Lower Yangtze Delta" J^ft' ¿fri" 'If; tei* * &%. = ^1 }%*k ÌL ?** U-Cj (4)Kanbe Teruo ^? a ^* ^ , "Understanding Minority Ethnic Groups" fj^frft „ ^#j. £ * ^ ^ ; (5)Kishi Kazuyuki /^ #« ?-? , "The Image of Vagrants in Local

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