A Dialogue on East - West Exchange: Perspectives from Mexican History on Cultural Transformation in East and Southeast Asia.

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25570006
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: MIYAHARA GYO 大阪大学, グローバルコラボレーションセンター, 教授 (70294171)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 井上 幸孝 専修大学, 文学部, 教授 (20399075) ; 伏見 岳志 慶応義塾大学, 商学部, 准教授 (70376581) ; 立岩 礼子 京都外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (80321058) ; 菅谷 成子 愛媛大学, 法文学部, 教授 (90202126) ; ヒメネス・ホアン・ラモン 滋賀県立大学, 環境科学部, 准教授 (10525281) ; 野上 建紀 長崎大学, 多文化社会学部, 准教授 (60722030)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: フィリピン諸島 / メキシコ / サツマイモ / パイナップル / チョコレート / 文化の翻訳 / 中国系メスティソ / イエズス会

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study has illustrated how commodities, technologies and information had been brought from Mexico to East and Southeast Asia during the 16 to 18th Century, and how they had been translated and edited into several local versions.
With dialogue between Philippine Studies and Mexican History, we could find a unique way of translation both in the Philippines and Fujian, China, when crops originated in the New Continent such as sweet potato, corn, tobacco and pineapple were adopted to those places. We could also figure out the essential roles of Chinese Mestizos and Jesuit missionaries for the translation, for instance, the pineapple fiber manufacturing and the chocolate drinking complex respectively.

Free Research Field

社会人類学