2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A study on the movement of intellectuals and higher education institutions and cultural transformation in Xiangxi during the Sino-Japanese War

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Project/Area Number	20K00363
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Review Section	Basic Section 02020:Chinese literature-related
Research Institution	University of Toyama
Principal Investigator	Saito Hiroki 富山大学, 学術研究部人文科学系, 教授 (70361938)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	今泉秀人大阪大学, 大学院人文学研究科(外国学専攻、日本学専攻), 准教授 (00263343) 中野徹近畿大学, 文芸学部, 准教授 (20610512) 中村みどり早稲田大学, 商学学術院, 教授 (30434351) 杉村安幾子日本女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (50334793)
Project Period (FY)	2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Keywords	湘西 / 日中戦争 / 沈従文 / 銭鍾書 / 聞一多 / 苗族 / 高等教育機関の移動
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This study investigated cultural transformation in Xiangxi, western Hunan Province, China during the Sino-Japanese War. Since ancient times, Xiangxi has been an area with an ethnic composition of Han and Miao people living together. Also, during the Sino-Japanese War, it belonged to the Guomindang-controlled area and was the front line area in the battle against the Japanese army. During the Sino-Japanese War, many higher education institutions were evacuated to local cities such as Kunming in Yunnan Province. At that time, many of them headed for Kunming via Xiangxi. Many intellectuals flowed into Xiangxi, and conditions such as higher education and newspaper publishing changed significantly. This study examines the influx of intellectuals into Xiangxi, and also discusses changes in the representation of Xiangxi by writers such as Shen Congwen, who was originally from Xiangxi.
Free Research Field	中国現代文学
Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements	本研究においては、これまで重点的に研究されてこなかった日中戦争期の湘西における高等教育機関および疎開知識人流入の状況を調査し、その状況が湘西という地域に与えた文化的変容について調査した。その結果、たとえば、中央政治学校学生であった劉漢源などの幅広い層の知識人が実際に湘西の苗族社会に足を踏み入れ、その現状と課題について調査を行っていることが判明した。さらに石宏規や石啓貴といた苗族知識人の形成についても新たな知見を得ることができた。