A Study of Chinese Overseas Students in Japan - from the Meiji (**) period to the Early Showa (**) period -

2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 10045008
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 中国語・中国文学
• Research Institution: Kanagawa University
• Principal Investigator: OSATO Hiroaki Kanagawa University, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 (70221124)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ASAYAMA Yoshiro Kanagawa University, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 ; KIYAMA Hideo Kanagawa University, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 (10008906) ; YAMAGUCHI Kenji Kanagawa University, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 (60102224) ; ANSOK Sun Kanagawa University, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Associate Professor, 外国語学部, 助教授 (30321954)
• Project Period (FY): 1998 – 2000
• Keywords: Cultural Exchange / Chinese Overseas Students / Educational Exchange / 官報 / 官費

Research Abstract

A study of Chinese Overseas Students in Japan - from the Meiji (**) period to the Early Showa (**) period -
This project, itself an experiment in the history of cultural and educational exchange between China and Japan, has been launched being focused on the study of the Chinese oversea students in Japan from the Meiji period to the early Showa period. As much as possible, the studies has been devoted to find out related materials collected in archives, libraries and Archivea in Japan, China, and Taiwan in 1998 and 1999.
In the year of 1998, the first year of the project, we investigated voluminous materials, mostly from the University libraries in Japan such as Waseda University (*****), the University of Aichi (****), Tenri University (****), University of Tokyo (****) and so on. This was further expanded to search documentation as well as other original sources related to our interest of research from the Archives in Beijing (*********), and Nanjing (*********).
In the year of 1999, th e second year of the project, we successfully gathered important materials to carry on our research project from China and Taiwan. Among them the record of the Competent Authority on the oversea students in Japan written in the late Qing period and the Chinese oversea student documents recorded in 1930-1940 from the National History Archives (***) in Taiwan are especially valuable. This result was reported at the symposium held at Kanagawa University on November 8th 1999 (Refer to the homepage of the Society for the study of Sino-Japanese history, Kanagawa University http://www.ricoh.co.jp/not-messena/ACSADEMIA/CHINA-J/index.html).
In the year of 2000, the third year, we devoted to the collection of the materials from Archives in Shanghai (******) and National History Archives (***) in Taiwan. Our accumulated effort on this project was reported again at the symposium held by Zhejiang University, China on October 17th 2000.
The final result of this 3 year project will be published from Ochanomizu syobou in 2002. In addition, we open our research in formation and materials through the homepage of the Society for the study of Sino-Japanese history, hoping to return our research benefits to a society.