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Sessions, Papers and Lectures in the First Congress of the Asian Association
of World Historians
Plenary Keynote Lectures/Plenary Panal Session/Big Sessions
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Big Session3
30 May 2009, 16:20 – 19:00. Saji Keizo Memorial Hall (10F)
Pre-modern Global History Reconstructed: New Perspectives from Nomadic and Oasis People
Organizer: Takao Moriyasu (Osaka University)
Based on the combination of multi-lingual textual studies and new theoretical
frameworks of nomadic and oasis societies and states, research in pre-modern "Silk
road" history has been dramatically renovated in recent years (especially in Japan). It
has almost replaced conventional "romantic" pictures of East-West interactions with
more structural views of central Eurasian states and societies. It in turn influences upon
the revision of Chinese Empire and pre-modern Eurasia as a whole. For instance, (1)
The Chinese Empire was never a nation-state of Han people. The role of people from
central Eurasia was often larger, as was the case of the Sui-Tang period. (2) The legacy
of Central Eurasia was so important in the making of early modern world. Both major
Eurasian empires (Ottoman, Mughal, the Ming and the Qing, and Russia) and "global"
economy in the early modern era inherited much from the statecraft and
commercial/financial systems of central Eurasian nomadic empires, especially those of
the Mongol empire.
The third major topic, namely the early supra-regional networks and their infrastructures
will be mainly discussed in this session, through such examples as Manicheism and
Sogdien merchants, networks that extended even to maritime Asia before the Mongol
era. Renovated textual methodology of how to exploit multi-lingual documents will also
be shown.
Chair:
Masami Hamada (Kyoto University)
Title of papers:
The Discovery of Manichaean Paintings in Japan and Their HIstorical Background
Takao Moriyasu (Osaka University)
The Aspects of Sogdians' Trading Activities under the Western Turk State and the Tang Empire
Masaharu Arakawa (Osaka University)
Mongol Globalism Attested by the Uigur and Mongol
Documents from East Turkestan
Dai Matsui (Hirosaki University)
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