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A Computer Ethnology of 18th Century Criminal Cases of East Asia

Research Project

Project/Area Number 09044016
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
SectionJoint Research
Research Field 文化人類学(含民族学・民俗学)
Research InstitutionNational Museum of Ethnology

Principal Investigator

SUGITA Shigeharu  National Museum of Ethnology, Dept.of Research Development, Professor, 民族学開発センター, 教授 (40026042)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) TANII Toshihiko  Mie Univ., Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assis.Professor, 人文学部, 助教授 (00242470)
SHIMA Mutsuhiko  Tohoku Univ., Faculty of Arts and Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (30115406)
FUJIMOTO Yukio  Toyama Univ., Faculty of Humanities, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (70093458)
YAMAMOTO Tadashi  NME,Dept.of Research, Development, Assistant, 民族学開発センター, 助手 (40262381)
ASAKURA Toshio  NME,Dept.of Social Research, Assis.Professor, 民族社会研究部, 助教授 (40151021)
Project Period (FY) 1997 – 1998
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1998)
Budget Amount *help
¥20,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥20,200,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥9,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥11,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,200,000)
KeywordsEast Asia / Family & Kinship / Law / History / Computer Ethnology / 18th Century
Research Abstract

The purpose of the project is to delineate and compare the family and kinship structure in its socio-cultural context utilizing selected criminal cases and related legal codes. Since all of these data are in Chinese characters the project is also a pilot project for computerizing East Asian law in Chinese characters.
Some of the accomplishments of the project are as follows.
(1)Establishment a core criminal law database of four East Asian Countries.
(2)Criminal selection of primary sources for comparative studies.
(3)Acquisition of new and rare Chinese criminal cases of 18^<th> century not yet been published even in China. The original documents are in handwritten form and are stored in the National Archives in Peking that are not accessible to the general public.
(4)Creation of different level database :
1. The unanalyzed file for full text retrieval
2. Analyzed file with a set of broad categories common to all East Asian Countries for comparative inquiries
3. Special purpose data base with further analysis
(5)Development of new analysis categories for law.
(6)Review of Studies on kinship in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
(7)Obtained new type of information about kinship which were unobtainable so far with other type of historical sources such as genealogies and household registry.
(8)Delineated those Chinese characters that cannot be computerized with the present Computer programs and developed coding system for these characters according to the international standard.
(9)Broke new ground for the studies of East Asian families, law, society and culture.
(10)And laid a firm foundation for continued research in the future for new type of studies in historical anthropology of law, and computer ethnology.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1998 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1997 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (1 results)

All Other

All Publications (1 results)

  • [Publications] 高(全)恵星: "東アジアの法と文化" Korean and Korean American Studie s Bulltein. 8・1/2. 60 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1997-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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