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2025.07.22

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On Saturday, September 13th, Musashi University East-West Cultural Fusion History Study Group will hold its 12th regular meeting entitled "Exchange and Fusion of Knowledge and Technology: What Happened in the Asian World"

[Date and Time]2025year9month13Sun (Sat)16:00~18:00minutes


[Method of holding] Held in person and online together (ZoomThere is no technical support for participation.
Location: Musashi University Professor Research Building02Cconference room
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[Online application deadline]2025year9month12Sun (Fri)※Advance application required
If you are attending in person, no application is required. Please come directly to the venue.


Overview

The early modern world was characterized by the rapid advance of globalization. The roles played by navigators, conquerors, and missionaries are well known. During this period, these people brought Western cultural artifacts to the Eastern world, but the reverse flow was also powerful. Chinese thought, art, and institutions in particular had a significant influence on contemporary Western regions. This research seminar will focus on the reception and understanding of Confucianism (Confucianism) in Britain. While the presentations will be in English, a facilitator will act as the moderator and provide supplementary explanations in Japanese to ensure that the general public can understand. We hope you will participate.


Program *Titles omitted *Reports will be in English. Comments and Q&A will be in Japanese and English.

16時00分
Opening remarks Tomoji Odori representative of the research group (Musashi University)Professor)
Facilitator's introduction of the speaker: Dr. Dongseon Lee (Associate Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
16時05分～16時55分
Report:Ross Moncrieff(Fellow of All Souls College, Department of History, University of Oxford)
“The reception of Confucianism in eighteenth-century Britain”（18The Acceptance of Confucianism in 18th Century England
16時55分
 break
17時10分
comment1: Yoko Arai (Associate Professor, Daito Bunka University)
“Some comments from the perspective of Confucianism in early modern East Asia”(From the perspective of early modern East Asian Confucianism)
17時25分
comment 2: Tsuyoshi Uemura (Associate Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University)
“The problem of reception in the Age of Enlightenment(s)”(The Problem of Acceptance in the Age of Enlightenment)
17時40分
 Q&A
18時00分
Closing remarks Information about the next meeting

[Recent research by presenters, commentators, and facilitators]
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
'British understandings of Manchu-Chinese relations in Qing China and Sino-British diplomacy, c. 1792-1842', English Historical Review (forthcoming)
“Commendably industrious” or “very good friends” of the Devil?: How attitudes towards the Jesuits shaped understandings of China in early modern England', Journal of Early Modern History 27 (2023): 397-417.
 
Yoko Arai
"Discussing the Music History of One's Own Country: The Changing Perspective of Chinese Music among Chinese Intellectuals" (Hiroko Nishida and Maho Nakatsuji (eds.), Modern Japan and Western Music Theory: Toward a Global Theoretical History, Ongaku No Tomosha, 2025)
Jesuits and the Universal Empire: The Translation of Civilization by Missionaries in China (Nagoya University Press, 2017)
 
Tsuyoshi Uemura
"The American Revolution: From the War of Independence to the Establishment of the Constitution and the Expansion of Democracy" (Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2024)
The Birth of the Separation of Powers Theory: The British Empire's Adoption of the Spirit of the Laws (Iwanami Shoten, 2021)
 
Mr. Lee Dong-sun
'The Significance of the 1650s in English Religious History: Religion and Morality during the Interregnum', The East Asian Journal of British History 9 (2025), 113-120.
'The Readmission of the Jews and the Power of the Civil Magistrate: Thomas Barlow on the Jews and Natural Law, 1655-56', The Seventeenth Century 38 (2023), 575-596.
 

Applications and inquiries

Research group members and university-affiliated individuals do not need to apply in advance.​Those from outside the university who wish to participate online are requested to apply in advance. Please fill out the form below and press the "Submit" button.


Application deadline:9month12Sun (Fri)

[Responsible person] Shino Kobayashi (Research Assistant, Institute for Comprehensive Research, University of Tokyo)
[Secretariat] Research Support Division Management Department Musashi University

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