東・東南アジア港町における異文化交流と「外交」活動

2015 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 13F03005
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: 羽田 正 東京大学, 東洋文化研究所, 教授 (40183090)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TREMML-WERNER BIRGIT 東京大学, 東洋文化研究所, 外国人特別研究員
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: port city / diplomacy / international history / global history / cross-cultural trade / Early modern / maritime Asia

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

By examining concrete episodes of diplomatic performances in early modern maritime Asia, my study aims to uncover hybrid elements of language, diplomatic correspondence, treaty making-practices, ceremonial and participating intermediaries, which have been constantly overlooked in previous scholarship. Pragmatism, ad-hoc strategies and purposeful geopolitics characterized hybrid negotiating practices and proto-global diplomacy of Tokugawa Japan, the Spanish Empire and representatives of South East Asian realms during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Against the background of narratives of failure and misunderstanding it has become overly due to revise conventional views by emphasizing comparison and connections in early modern diplomatic cultures. In order to do so I have analyzed multi-lingual sources and collected data for an actor-based approach. My findings help to will shift the focus away from the dichotomy of asymmetrical and equal diplomatic exchange to hybridization processes. Introducing different scenarios include (1) the Spanish experience with the Sino-Japanese diplomatic context, (2) diplomatic exchange with expanding Southeast Asian empires such as Cambodia and Siam, and (3) smaller Muslim insular chiefdoms this project pursues to provide a balanced view on diverse diplomatic practices and actors in South East Asia.

Research Progress Status

27年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。

Strategy for Future Research Activity

27年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Friends or Foes? Intercultural Diplomacy between Momoyama Japan and the Spanish Philippines in the 1590s (2016)
  • Author(s): Tremml-Werner, Birgit
  • Journal Title: Tonio Andrade and Xing Hang, eds., Sea Rovers, Silver and Samurai. Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550-1700 Conference Volume: 1 Pages: 65-85
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The Manila Galleon (2016)
  • Author(s): Tremml-Werner, Birgit
  • Journal Title: Stephan Stein, ed., The Sea in World History. Exploration, Travel and Trade Navigation History ABC Publishing Volume: 1 Pages: 2
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Spain, 1450-1770 (2016)
  • Author(s): Tremml-Werner, Birgit
  • Journal Title: Stephan Stein, ed., The Sea in World History. Exploration, Travel and Trade Navigation History ABC Publishing Volume: 1 Pages: 8
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The Americas, 1450-1770 (2016)
  • Author(s): Tremml-Werner, Birgit
  • Journal Title: Stephan Stein, ed., The Sea in World History. Exploration, Travel and Trade Navigation History ABC Publishing Volume: 1 Pages: 8
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Katsushika Hokusai (2016)
  • Author(s): Tremml-Werner, Birgit
  • Journal Title: Stephan Stein, ed., The Sea in World History. Exploration, Travel and Trade Navigation History ABC Publishing Volume: 1 Pages: 2
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] “Discussion and Review of A. Stanziani, After Oriental Despotism” (2015)
  • Author(s): Tremml-Werner, Birgit
  • Organizer: Review of Alessandro Stanziani’s Books, Global History Collaborative
  • Place of Presentation: The Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia / The University of Tokyo
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-02
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] “The Global and the Local in Early Modern Manila”. Book presentation (2015)
  • Author(s): Tremml-Werner, Birgit
  • Organizer: VSIG Wien Lecture
  • Place of Presentation: Verein zur Förderung von Studien zu Interkultureller Geschichte (Austria, Vienna)
  • Year and Date: 2015-08-05
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] “Spanish intercultural diplomacy in maritime Asia and the question of hybridity” (2015)
  • Author(s): Tremml-Werner, Birgit
  • Organizer: Stockholm University Junior Research Workshop at the Vasa Museum
  • Place of Presentation: the Vasa Museum (Sweden, Stockholm)
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-28
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] “Manila-Coromandel: “ Trade between the Coromandel Coast and Manila. An actor-based approach to post 1640s maritime trade” (2015)
  • Author(s): Tremml-Werner, Birgit
  • Organizer: Workshop on Maritime Worlds around the Chinas Seas: Emporiums, Connections and Dynamics
  • Place of Presentation: Academia Sinica (Taiwan, Taipei)
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-01
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Book] Spain, China and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644. Local Comparisons and Global Connections (2015)
  • Author(s): Tremml-Werner, Birgit
  • Total Pages: 411
  • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press