A Research on Chinese Intellectual Discourse for Constructing the Intellectual History of Contemporary China

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24320022
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of thought
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: ISHII Tsuyoshi 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 准教授 (40409529)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SUNAYAMA Yukio 愛知大学, 現代中国学部, 教授 (00236043) ; SAKAMOTO Hiroko 一橋大学, 社会学研究科, 特任教授 (30205778) ; SATO Fumiko 駒澤大学, 総合教育研究部, 教授 (60119427) ; MURATA Yujiro 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 教授 (70190923) ; TAKAMIZAWA Osamu 東京大学, 東洋文化研究所, 教授 (70212016) ; YAN Ni 明治学院大学, 文学部, 研究員 (70509140) ; TAKEMOTO Norihito 福岡教育大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (80452704) ; KAJI Hiromoto 愛知大学, 現代中国学部, 助教 (80553487)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 中国 / 現代思想史 / 東アジア / 知識界 / 言説分析 / 中国認識 / 現代と伝統 / 改革開放期

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We can summarize our achievements as follows.
1) We established the academic partnership with Kaifangshidai, the most influential academic journal in China, and some scholars in Sun Yat-sen University who belong to the advisory board. The partnership enabled us to deeply understand the situation of intellectual production in China. 2) We acquired a reflective approach for recognizing contemporary intellectual discourse. We concluded that given the specific historical and political conditions between Japan and China, the means of recognition itself inevitably contains challenges that scholars ought to be aware of. 3) By shedding light on the relevant thoughts produced in areas along China’s periphery, we clarified the limitation of studies in China, which only focus on the framework of the nation state.
We have already published and will continue to publish articles and books regarding this topic. In the future, we expect to establish a trans-East Asian academic network.

Free Research Field

中国近現代思想史・哲学