The Hydrosphere
and
Socioeconomics
in Modern Asia

Our project members have organized the session “Environmental Data and Socioeconomic History of Monsoon Asia in the 19th and the Early 20th Century” and presented papers at Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2023 in Boston.

• Date＆Time: Mar 18th, Sat., 2023, 17:45-19:15.
• Session: “Environmental Data and Socioeconomic History of Monsoon Asia in the 19th and the Early 20th Century”
• Chair: Tomoko Shiroyama, The University of Tokyo
• Discussant: Sumit Guha, University of Texas, Austin
• Papers:

  Rainfall and Malaria: Re-Examination of Socio-Environmental History of Colonial Southeast Asia Based on Climatological Data
  Atsushi Ota, Keio University

  The 1931 Yangzi River Flood: Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Calamities in Hubei ProvinceWater Circulation System of Yangzi River: From a Perspective of Chinese Maritime Customs Records
  Chang Liu, University of Tokyo, Tomoko Shiroyama, University of Tokyo

  Variations in the Distribution of Solar Radiation in Japan during the Tempo Famine Period As Reconstructed Using Historical Weather Records
  Mika Ichino, National Institute for Informatics

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