The ‘Global’ and the ‘Local’ in Early Modern and Modern East Asia

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Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction: An Overview

Part 1: Is World History Possible?

1 Is There Still Value in National History in the Trend towards Global History?

2 Is a World History of Ideas Possible?

Part 2: What Forms of Globalism Took Shape in Traditional East Asia?

3 Conditional Universality and World History in Modern Philosophy in East Asia

4 A New Global History and Regional Histories

5 A Jointly Regional-Global Approach to Rethinking Early Modern East Asian History

Part 3: How Did Internationalism Em

6 Internationalization from Within: 140 Years of Internationalization at the University of Tokyo

7 Global History in China: Inheritance and Innovation—A Case Study of the Development of World History in the History Department of Fudan University

Part 4: Doing ‘World’ or ‘Global’ History as ‘Transnational’ History

8 From ‘East Asia’ to ‘East Asian Maritime Worlds’: The Pros and Cons of the Construction of a Historical World

9 From Sri Lanka to East Asia: A Short History of a Buddhist Scripture

10 ‘Nobody Changed Their Old Customs’—Tang Views on the History of the World

11 The Korean Response to Xue Xuan’s Enshrinement in Ming Confucian Temples

12 Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century World

13 Tales of an Open World: The Fall of the Ming Dynasty as Dutch Tragedy, Chinese Rumor, and Global News

14 The Regulation of Sailors in the Maritime Trade between Jiangnan and Nagasaki in Early Qing China

15 The Transnational History of Japanese Thrift

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