2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Basic Study for Ethnic Problem of China by Utilizing Archives
| Project/Area Number |
17520464
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Asian history
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
UENO Toshihiro Tohoku University, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Associate Professor, 東北アジア研究センター, 助教授 (10333907)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2006
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| Keywords | China / Modern history / Ethnic minority / Ethnic Problem / Archives / Frontier |
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| Research Abstract |
A purpose of this research project is to inspect continuity of the ethnic policy in China from the Republic of China (ROC) period to the People's Republic of China (PRC) period by collecting and analyzing related documents which archives possesses, that has not been clarified in conventional studies. At first I started from searching of the information about archives on Internet and reading of the archives hat can read on Web, such as resources of Japan Center for Asian Historical Records. Next, I searched documents at Archives in Taiwan etc. and collected them. I investigated documents mainly at Academia Historica in Taiwan, which possesses important documents about policy decision by the Nanjing government of Kuomintang (KMT) and Chiang Kai-shek (CKS). I grasped the process of forming the reform plan postwar ethnic policy on frontier by Kuomintang in wartime with Japan. Especially, I found importance of a draft plan of frontier policy reform that was written by Wu Zhong-xin (minister of Mongolian and Tibetan affairs commission) in 1939, and was submitted to CKS. This draft plan shows the details and a concrete plan about postwar frontier policy reform mainly on reorganization from the Mongolian and Tibetan affairs commission to the Ministry of Frontier Affairs and duties expansion to the state ethnic affairs whole, and explains that the design of postwar frontier policy reform of KMT, that is common to with the ethnic policy of the PRC partially, has already determined the directionality at a wartime stage basically. In addition, through documents investigation, I understood that KMT was strongly concerned about power penetration to frontier of not only Japan but also the Soviet Union, therefore the frontier policy reform of KMT became incomplete, and ends in failure.
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