Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S):
The Hydrosphere and Socioeconomics in Modern Asia - Exploring a New Regional History Using a Database and Spatial Analysis
International Workshop 2018
| Date | Febraury 3 - 4, 2018 |
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| Venue | Kojima-hall, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo |
The International Workshop offered 5 presentations from invited researchers and 9 from our project members.

| 13:00-13:15 | Tomoko Shiroyama | Introduction of the Project |
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| 13:15-14:15 | China Group | |
| Takeshi Hamashita | Considering the Hydrosphere from the Perspective of Chinese Maritime Customs Records | |
| Yoshinori Kigoshi | Asia-Pacific Nexus Reconstructed from Shipping Intelligences of the Port-City Newspapers | |
| Ei Murakami | Trade and “Pirates” on the West River during the Late Qing Period | |
| 14:15-15:15 | Ka-chai Tam | The Historical GIS for Judicial Cases from the Coastal Provinces of Ming and Qing China (1550-1850 |
| 13:00 – 15:15 a report written by a student (PDF) | ||
| 15:15-15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30-16:30 | India Group | |
| Sayoko Kanda | Seasonality of Trade in Colonial Eastern India | |
| Michihiro Ogawa | Droughts and Famines in the 19th Century India | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Sunil Amrith | The Monsoon and South Asia’s Development |
| 17:30-17:40 | Tomoko Shiroyama | Closing Remarks for Day 1 |
| 10:30-11:30 | Akiyuki Kawasaki and Chang Liu | Reproduction of flood inundation in the Yangzi River basin in 1931 |
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| 11:30-12:30 | Shi Xie | Human-Water Interaction and Technological Options in the Development of Lower Yangzi Delta (15th -17th centuries) |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-14:30 | David Pietz | China’s Yellow River: Managing Scarcity on the North China Plain |
| 10:30 – 14:30 a report written by a student (Japanese) (PDF) | ||
| 14:30-15:30 | South East Asia Group | |
| Toshiyuki Miyata | Agriculture, Land Transactions, and Climate Changes in the Early 20th Century Thailand | |
| Atsushi Ota | Climatological, Trade, and Agricultural Data from Netherlands East Indies | |
| Atsushi Kobayashi | An Analysis of Meteorological and Trade Data or the Early 20th Century Sarawak | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Punnee Bualek and Supunnee Pladsrichuay | Rice Production and Trade in Bang Khen Field from 1867-1967 |
| 16:30-16:45 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00-18:15 | Kohei Wakimura, Bin Wong |
Comments |
| General Discussion | ||
| 17:00 – a report written by a student (Japanese) (PDF) | ||
| a report written by a student for all presentations (PDF) | ||
We had a very productive meeting and were able to discuss the great progress on this issue. Thank you for taking your time.
