The Fifth Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History (EAEH 2019)
Time: |
October 24-27 (Thursday-Sunday), 2019 |
Venue: |
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan |
General theme:
Issues of Sustainable Development in East Asia: Perspectives of Environmental History
Tentative Program
Thursday, October 24
Opening and Keynote Speech
Opening Ceremony |
Oct. 24 09:00-09:30 |
Phoenix Theater, NCKU |
Chair: Dr. Shi-yung Liu (President of AEAEH)
Welcome Address: Dr. Hsueh-chi Hsu (Director of Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica)
Dr. Chung-I Lin (Executive Vice President of National Cheng Kung University) |
Keynote Speech |
Oct. 24 09:30-10:30 |
Phoenix Theater, NCKU |
Title |
Speaker |
Chair |
Cyclical and Counter-Cyclical Relation between Human Resources and Natural Resources: 16-20 Centuries |
Takeshi Hamashita
(Toyo Bunko, Tokyo/
Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou
) |
Ts'ui-jung Liu
(Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica) |
Parallel Session 1
Parallel Session 1.1 |
Oct. 24 11:00-12:40 |
Room 25235, Dept. of History |
Land-use Patterns and Environmental Sustainability |
Chair/Discussant |
Donald Worster |
University of Kansas /
Renmin University of China |
TItle |
Presenters |
Resources in Crisis: Plowing Pastures and Mining Mountains in 1850s Xinjiang |
Peter B. Lavelle |
Temple University |
Empire of Insect Flower: Pyrethrum Cropscapes in East Asia, 1880s-1940s |
Yubin Shen |
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |
Sustainability in Mitigation Efforts during the 17th Century Cold Period in Jiāngnán |
Erling Agoey |
Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo |
Growing Cities and Shrinking Bases: A Comparison of Urban Environmental Issues and Militarized Landscapes in the Kanto, Chubu, and Kansai Regions of Japan |
Adam Tompkins |
Lakeland University Japan |
Parallel Session 1.2 |
Oct. 24 11:00-12:40 |
Room 25236, Dept. of History |
Anima Philosophica: Nature, Disaster, and Animism in Japan |
Chair/Discussant/Organizer |
Tatsushi Fujihara |
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University |
Title |
Presenters |
The Animism of Discarded Things: Why Mottainai Ghosts Appear in Japan |
Tatsushi Fujihara
|
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University |
Floating Spirits and Wandering Ghosts: The Mourning Environment in Modern Japan |
Miho Ishii |
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University |
The Fate of the World: Implications of Nishida's Philosophy for Modernized Space in Japan |
Masatake Shinohara
|
The Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (GSAIS), Kyoto University |
Science Fiction Films and Repose of Souls: The Narratives, and Images of Government, Scientists, Media, and Citizens, in First Godzilla and Shin Godzilla |
Takashi Arai |
Tono Culture Research Center |
Parallel Session 1.3 |
Oct. 24 11:00-12:40 |
Room 25237, Dept. of History |
Sustainable Urbanization |
Chair/Discussant |
Yifei Li |
New York University Shanghai |
Title |
Presenters |
(Un?)Charted Waters: Hydraulic Infrastructures in Zaanheh and Shanghai |
Yifei Li |
New York University Shanghai
Department of Enviromental Studies, New York University |
Remodeling the Urban Landscape of Kunming in Ming Dynasty |
Yuanhui Liang |
Southwest Institute of Environmental History, Yunnan University |
Planning for Industrial Nature: A Case Study on Ecopolis Ulsan |
Dongjin Kim |
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) |
Nature and the City: Remaking of the Han River in Seoul in the 1980s |
Yeonsil Kang |
Catholic University of Korea |
Parallel Session 2
Parallel Session 2.1 |
Oct. 24 14:00-15:40 |
Room 25235, Dept. of History |
Local People and Natural Relationship in Eastern Asia: Border and Adaptation to Natural and Social Change |
Chair/Discussant/Organizer |
Yoko Yasuda |
International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University |
Title |
Presenters |
A History of Fresh Water Fishery in Ob' River System from the Viewpoint of Khanty |
Yuka Oishi |
National Museum of Ethnology, Japan |
The Movement of Local Fishery Order Influenced by Natural and Social Environment from Early Modern to Modern Japan |
Shingo Nakamura |
University of Toyama |
The Borders and Natural Disasters of the Pastoral Nomadic Society of Qing-era Mongolia |
Kaori Horiuchi |
Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University |
Reasons for Live on Water |
Tsutomu Inazawa |
Shokei Gakuin University |
Parallel Session 2.2 |
Oct. 24 14:00-15:40 |
Room 25236, Dept. of History |
Transnational Technology, Market, and Environment in East Asia (1850s to 1940s) |
Chair/Discussant |
Yubin Shen |
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |
Organizer |
Ruisheng Zhang |
Department of History, Purdue University |
Title |
Presenters |
Beyond Violence: Commodity, Nature and the Expansion of a Global Market in Pre-Modern South-Eastern Mongolia |
Siping Shan |
Department of History, SOAS, University of London |
Cultivating Red China’s Agricultural Engineers- A Research on the Cooperation between the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the International Harvester Company (1945-1948) |
Ruisheng Zhang |
Department of History, Purdue University |
Parallel Session 3
Parallel Session 3.1 |
Oct. 24 16:00-17:40 |
Room 25235, Dept. of History |
Pollution and Environmental Protection |
Chair/Discussant |
Shi-yung Liu |
University of Pennsylvania /
Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Title |
Presenters |
Mining Pollution and Infant Health in Modern Japan: From Village/Town Statistics of Infant Mortality |
Keisuke Moriya
Kenichi Tomobe |
Hitotsubashi University |
Producing Engineers for Cleaner Korea: Public Health and Environmental Engineering Education in Korean Higher Education from 1979 to 1999 |
Jongmin Lee |
University of Science and Technology, Korea |
Parallel Session 3.2 |
Oct. 24 16:00-17:40 |
Room 25236, Dept. of History |
Animals in Technological Environments |
Chair/Discussant |
Tatsushi Fujihara
|
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University |
Organizer: |
Akihisa Setoguchi
|
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University |
Title |
Presenters |
Underground Animals: Humans, Canaries, and Machines in Mines and Cities |
Akihisa Setoguchi
|
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University |
Hypercultivation: Aquacultural Ecology, Pearl Crisis, and the Politics of Density in Ago Bay, 1950s-1970s |
Kjell Ericson |
Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University |
Pest and Pest Control in Postwar Taiwan, 1945-1980s |
Shao-li Lu |
Department of History, National Taiwan University |
Friday, October 25
Mid-conference Field Trip
Saturday, October 26
Round Table
Round Table |
Oct. 26 09:00-10:00 |
Heritage Hall, Dept. of History |
J. Donald Hughes Memorial Roundtable
Chair: Shi-yung Liu
Introducers: Joy Hughes (Solar Gardens)
Ts'ui-jung Liu (Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica)
Satoshi Murayama (Kagawa University) |
Parallel Session 4
Parallel Session 4.1 |
Oct. 26 10:20-12:00 |
Room 25235, Dept. of History |
Ocean Resource Utilization in East Asia |
Chair/Discussant |
Wataru Iijima |
Department of History, Aoyama Gakuin University |
Title |
Presenters |
Dried Pollack and Japanese Empire: An Economic Analysis of a Korean Indigenous Food |
Chaisung Lim |
Rikkyo University |
Fish, Subterfuge and Security in the Sea of Okhotsk: Environmental Histories of North Korean and Soviet Union Maritime Interaction |
Robert Winstanley-Chesters |
University of Leeds and Birkbeck, University of London |
Parallel Session 4.2 |
Oct. 26 10:20-12:00 |
Room 25236, Dept. of History |
Sustainable Perspective of Water and Forest Resource Utilization in China and Taiwan |
Chair/Discussant/Organizer |
Ts'ui-jung Liu |
Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica |
Title |
Presenters |
A Sustainable Development Plan under the Qing Dynasty |
Makoto Ueda |
Research Institute for Asian Studies, Rikkyo University |
The Uriyangkhai Mink Tribute during the Qing Dynasty |
Hui-min Lai |
Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica |
Water Resource Utilization in Taiwan’s Municipalities: A Comparative Perspective |
Ts'ui-jung Liu |
Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica |
Parallel Session 4.3 |
Oct. 26 10:20-12:00 |
Room 25237, Dept. of History |
Human-Animal Relationship |
Chair/Discussant |
Satoshi Murayama |
Kagawa University |
Title |
Presenters |
Gibbon of the Qin Shi Huang: A Study Centered on the Qin Bamboo Slips Unearthed at Liye |
Mian Li (1)
Fangjie Yu (2) |
(1) School of History and Society, Chongqing Normal University
(2) Sichuan Fine Arts Institute |
Urbanizing Camels: Camels in Beijing, 1800-1937 |
Lei Zhang |
Department of History, Lingnan University |
Parallel Session 5
Parallel Session 5.1 |
Oct. 26 14:00-15:40 |
Room 25235, Dept. of History |
New Horizons and Potentials in East Asian Medical History: A Survey of Chinese Maritime Customs' Medical Reports |
Chair/Discussant/Organizer |
Takeshi Hamashita
|
Toyo Bunko, Tokyo |
Title |
Presenters |
Eight Volumes of Half Yearly Published Medical Reports by the Chinese Maritime Customs from 1871 to 1911 |
Takeshi Hamashita
|
Toyo Bunko, Tokyo |
Who Were the Authors of the Medical Reports: Medicine and Public Health Networks by the Chinese Maritime Customs in the Late Nineteenth Century East Asia |
Wataru Iijima
|
Department of History, Aoyama Gakuin University |
Endemic Diseases in Modern East Asia Reported in Medical Reports: Describing a History of the Spread of Pork Tapeworm in Early Modern Ryukyu |
Hiroki Inoue
|
Aoyama Gakuin University |
A Study of Disease Control by Chinese Maritime Customs in Fujian Province |
Keisuke Tatara
|
Nihon University |
Parallel Session 5.2 |
Oct. 26 14:00-15:40 |
Room 25236, Dept. of History |
Production of Scientific Knowledge and the Japanese Empire Forestry |
Chair/Organizer |
Koji Nakashima
|
Kanazawa University |
Discussant |
Hurng-Jyuhn Wang
|
National Dong HwaUniversity |
Title |
Presenters |
Japanese Scientific Forestry and Treeless Islands in Colonial Taiwan: Controversy on the Environmental History of the Penghu Islands |
Taisaku Komeie
|
Department of Geography, Kyoto University |
The Exploration of Yushan Mountain and the Discovery of Alishan Forest in Colonial Taiwan in the Late 19th Century |
Taro Takemoto
|
Department of Ecoregion Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
Research Activity and Specimen Collection of Ryozo Kanehira: Based on the Material Evidences and His Personal History |
Misako Mishima
|
The Kyushu University Museum |
Experimental Activities of SCES and Private Companies: A Comparison with Taiwan and Hokkaido under the Japanese Empire |
Taisho Nakayama
|
Kushiro Public University of Economics |
Parallel Session 5.3 |
Oct. 26 14:00-15:40 |
Room 25237, Dept. of History |
Environmental Policy History 2.0-Nature Conservation on Private Lands |
Chair/Discussant/Organizer |
Hiroki Oikawa |
Yokohama National University |
Title |
Presenters |
A Study on the Respect for Property Rights in the Act on Protection of Cultural Properties |
Rie Uchida |
Yokohama National University |
A Consideration Regarding an Amendment to the Articles on Respecting Property Rights in the Species Conservation Act and the True Picture of the Discussion Surrounding Them |
Kazuki Kikuchi |
Secretary, House of Representatives, Japan |
The QEII National Trust and Open Space Covenants in New Zealand: A Model of Sustainable, Landowner- First Conservation by Covenants |
Keiji Akutsu |
Development Bank of Japan Inc., Tokyo |
Parallel Session 6
Parallel Session 6.1 |
Oct. 26 16:00-17:40 |
Room 25235, Dept. of History |
Disease and Medicine |
Chair/Discussant |
Shi-yung Liu |
University of Pennsylvania /
Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Title |
Presenters |
Racism in Pollen Allergy |
Kaihei Koshio
|
Tokyo University of Agriculture |
Tropical Stupor? An Investigation into Patients Affected by Earthquakes and Tropical Weather in Colonial Taiwan |
Harry Yi-Jui Wu
|
Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, The University of Hong Kong |
Parallel Session 6.2 |
Oct. 26 16:00-17:40 |
Room 25236, Dept. of History |
Knowledge and Practices in British Colonial and Postcolonial Forestry |
Chair/Organizer |
Shoko Mizuno
|
Department of Economics, Komazawa University |
Discussant |
Gregory A. Barton |
Western Sydney University |
Title |
Presenters |
Hybrid Forest Practice in British Colonial and Postcolonial Forestry Networks |
Shoko Mizuno
|
Department of Economics, Komazawa University |
Local Knowledge Blended into Forestry Development Projects of Burma / Myanmar |
Yukako Tani
|
Faculty of Economics, Tohoku Gakuin University |
How Have Forestry Knowledge and Practices Been Developed on an Invasive Species of Lantana camara in India? |
Masahiko Ota
|
Institute of Liberal Arts, Kyushu Institute of Technology |
The Evaporation of the Forest-Climate Question |
Brett M Bennett |
University of Johannesburg
Western Sydney University |
Parallel Session 6.3 |
Oct. 26 16:00-17:40 |
Room 25237, Dept. of History |
Disaster and Response |
Chair/Discussant |
Mian Li |
School of History and Society, Chongqing Normal University |
Title |
Presenters |
Impacts of Historical Flood Events and Disaster Response Strategies: A Case Study of the Huayuankou Flood in the Lower Reaches of theYellow River in 1938 |
Pi-ling Pai |
Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica |
All for One: Hong Kong for the 1991 East China Flood |
Stephen Chung-On Ng |
Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, University of Hong Kong |
Sunday, October 27
Parallel Session 7
Parallel Session 7.1 |
Oct. 27 09:00-10:40 |
Room 25235, Dept. of History |
Water-Society Relationship |
Chair/Discussant |
Satoshi Murayama |
Kagawa University |
Title |
Presenters |
Flood, Drought, and Lack of Sunshine in the East Asian Monsoon Region: An Environmental History of Takahama in the Amakusa Islands, Kyushu, Japan, 1793-1818 |
Satoshi Murayama
Hiroko Nakamura
Noboru Higashi
Toru Terao |
Kagawa University |
Water Control and Holo-Hakka Ethnic Relationship- a Case Study of the Ai-Liao River Basin of Southern Taiwan |
Ya-wen Ku |
Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica |
The Establishment of Water Companies in Modern China |
Shinobu Iguro |
Otani University |
Parallel Session 7.2 |
Oct. 27 09:00-10:40 |
Room 25236, Dept. of History |
Forest Resources and Sustainability |
Chair/Discussant |
Shi-yung Liu |
University of Pennsylvania /
Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Title |
Presenters |
From Forestry to Agriculture and Then Sustainability: Relay of Exploitation on the Northern Frontier of Taiwan in the Eighteenth Century |
Hung-yi Chien
|
Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica |
Circulation of Forestry Information between Japanese Taiwan and the American Philippines |
Er-Jian Yeh |
Department of Taiwan and Regional Studies, National Dong Hwa University |
Parallel Session 8
Parallel Session 8.1 |
Oct. 27 11:00-12:40 |
Room 25235, Dept. of History |
Ecology and Culture |
Chair/Discussant |
Hurng-Jyuhn Wang |
National Dong Hwa University |
Title |
Presenters |
Mecha and Kodomo Anime, Pop Culture and Mass Environmentalism. The Top Down Transmission of Ecological Ideas in the Decades of the Ecological Crisis (1960-1990) |
Federico Paolini |
Università della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli' |
South Korean Biologists' Appropriation of Japanese Colonial Experience |
Manyong Moon |
Chonbuk National University |
Radioactive Cherry Blossoms. Japanese Relations with Contaminated Areas around the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant. |
Aleksandra Brylska |
Faculty of 'Artes Liberales', University of Warsaw |
Parallel Session 8.2 |
Oct. 27 11:00-12:40 |
Room 25236, Dept. of History |
Forests of Empire: Sustainability in Imperial Japan |
Chair/Discussant |
Bruce Batten |
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies |
Organizer |
M. William Steele |
International Christian University |
Title |
Presenters |
From a Tiny Matchstick Does a Mighty Forest Fall: Hokkaido Wood Products in Japan's Modern Economic Development |
M. William Steele |
International Christian University |
Akita Forests in Modern Japan: A Micro View of the Green Archipelago |
Patricia Sippel |
Toyo Eiwa University |
Wilson’s Hope; Or, How to Govern “the Finest Forests of Eastern Asia” (1895-1945) |
Kuang-chi Hung
|
Department of Geography, National Taiwan University |
Parallel Session 9
Parallel Session 9.1 |
Oct. 27 14:00-15:40 |
Room 25235, Dept. of History |
Energy Utilization and Environmental Movements |
Chair/Discussant |
Takashi Nakazawa |
Shizuoka University |
Title |
Presenters |
An Analysis on the Historical Role of a Local Organization in the Local Acceptance of Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plants |
Takashi Nakazawa |
Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University |
Review of Renewable Energy Utilization and the Feed-in Tariff System in Japan |
Fuyi Chen |
Niigata University |
The Dual Character of Gentry of Civil Environmental Organization in Britain |
Sian Zhao |
Tianjin Normal University |
Parallel Session 9.2 |
Oct. 27 14:00-15:40 |
Room 25236, Dept. of History |
Human-Environment Relationship |
Chair/Discussant |
Kung-chi Hung
|
Department of Geography, National Taiwan University |
Title |
Presenters |
The Rats Plagues Japan in 1855: A Study on the Representation of Rat Swarms |
Yoko Yasuda
|
Tohoku University |
Population Decline after the 1783 Great Famine in the Oku-Aizu Region |
Hiroshi Kawaguchi
|
Tezukayama University |
The Retreat of the Human: The Human-Environmental Relationship Under Warfare in Sichuan, China (1634-1681) |
Shang Yuan |
Sichuan University |
General Meeting and Closing Ceremony
General Meeting |
Oct. 27 16:00-17:00 |
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General Meeting of AEAEH Members
Chair: Shi-yung Liu |
Closing Ceremony |
Oct. 27 17:00-17:30 |
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Chair: New President of AEAEH |
Abstract submission system is closed.
If you have questions, please contact Miss Hsiao-yun Liu, Academia Sinica (hsyunliu@gate.sinica.edu.tw).
The deadline for paper abstract or panel proposal submission is April 30, 2017.
Suggested sub-themes:
- Spatial-temporal Process and Historical Pulsation: The Origin, Expansion and Transformation of East Asian Civilization.
- Natural Environment and Social Forms: Population Behavior, Ethnic Groups and Nation-state Regimes.
- Environment and Lifestyles: Economic Systems, Material Production and the Ways of Food, Clothing, Housing and Transportation.
- Environment, Resource and Technology: Exploitation and Utilization of Material and Energy and Their Impacts to Eco-system.
- Deep blue seas changed into Mulberry Fields: The Changing Landscape Under the Joint Action of Natural and Human Forces.
- Challenge and Response: Disaster, Disease and Pollution in the Process of Human Civilization.
- Cognition and Emotion: Knowledge, Values, Beliefs and Aesthetic Related to Environment.
- East Asia and the Outside World: Cultural Contact and Ecologicallinkage Across Lands, Oceans and Skies.
The Fourth Conference of East Asian Environmental History will be held from October 26-31, 2017 in Tianjin, China. It is being jointly organized by the Association for East Asian Environmental History, Chinese Society for Environment Sciences along with a number of other institutions and will be hosted by Nankai University. It will provide an opportunity for multidisciplinary, international academic dialogue. Historians, archaeologists, ecologists, geographers, environmental scientists and other scholars in relevant fields are invited to gather together to reviewhumanity’s and especially the East Asian peoples’ environmental past, to explain the constantly expanding and deepening interrelationship between humans and the sky, the earth, and the seas, and their various biotic and abiotic components, and to examine the environmental challenges that human civilizations, including East Asian civilizations have faced in the past and are still facing today. Our goal is to reach a more profound understanding of the complex eco-historical process of the interaction and co-evolution between human beings and nature for this important world region, and to provide non-western perspectives for the search for a road to a harmonious and symbiotic relationship between man and nature and sustainable development. Scholars from all around the world who are interested in environmental history are welcome.
The general theme of the conference is Tracing the Ecological Footprint of East Asian and World Civilizations. The phrase "ecological footprint" is used in a broad sense here. It does not mean that we must all adopt in the conference a quantitative model for investigating ecological relationships between humans and nature in history, although we appreciate and eventually will need such efforts. We use the phrase to express the goal of attempting to figure out the qualitative as well as quantitative dimensions of human impact on the natural environment for the past few thousand years—to retrace the historical footprints of East Asian and world civilizations from many perspectives.
Discussions of the long-term changes in natural systems (including climate, land, sea, and species populations and distribution) are welcome. Yet we particularly encourage attention to materials, technology, economy, social structure, political institutions, living patterns, and concepts from the perspective of environmental history. What impact or “footprint” have natural forces had on the development of variouscivilizations? How do we explain how the East Asian peoples, for their own subsistence and development, have adapted to diverse natural settings, continuously expanded the utilization of natural resources, and caused tremendous environmental changes, eventually leading to a state of ecological crisis today? We also encourage a more comprehensive and extensive comparison within the region and beyond so as to grasp the pulsations, rhythms, patterns, and cycles that human systems and natural systems have exhibited. We encourage proposals that focus on East Asian civilization's historical integrity, diversity, independence, and linkages among regions and nations, as well as their common natural origin and ecological consequences. But our interest is not confined to this specific region. We also realize that East Asia has never been ecologically and culturally isolated from the outside world. More attention should be paid to the historical connections between East Asia and other parts of the world. All in all, we hope this conference will promote a more inclusive narrative and a more holistic understanding of East Asian environmental history and the region's ecological links with the rest of the world.
Participants are encouraged to organize panels and to submit sets of coordinated proposals. Single papers and individual or group posters, however, are also welcome. The organizer will invite experts to review, make selections among the proposals, and publicize the results as soon as possible.
We sincerely welcome colleagues (whether or not a member of the AEAEH) to send us their proposals to help us create that more inclusive narrative and to suggest new avenues of research.
The working language of EAEH 2017 is English. All participants except the keynote speakers are expected to provide competent translations of their work in English, both in their proposals, presentations, and commentaries. To ensure a smooth communication and to encourage young scholars (including doctoral candidates, post doctoral researchers, etc.) to participate in the conference, we plan to recruit from around the world 5 to 10 volunteers who will serve as simultaneous interpreters during the conference. In compensation, they will be exempted from the usual registration fee and entitled to free accommodation. Applicants should declare their willingness to serve as conference interpreters when they register and provide proof of their language skill. To be chosen as an interpreter, we need evidence of proficiency in both English and Chinese (1 to 2 interpreters should also be fluent in Japanese), and of a professional-level background in environmental history or a related field. If you are interested in applying for conference interpreter, please send application to Miss Hsiao-yun Liu(hsyunliu@gate.sinica.edu.tw).
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