International Symposium Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Toyo Bunko
“Accumulation of Asian Knowledge and East-West Exchange”

November 16 (Sat.)
13:00–13:10
Opening Remarks: HAMASHITA Takeshi (Research Dept., Toyo Bunko)

13:10–15:00
Keynote Session. East-West Exchange of Asian Knowledge

Robert CHARD (Chair and Director, Research Centre for East Asian Cultures, St. Anne’s College, Oxford)
“Regulating the Rites: Imperial Ritual Codes before the Tang”

James ROBSON (Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute)
“The Daode Jing (The Scripture of the Way and Its Virtue) and Its Curious Route to Becoming a Classic of World Religions”

Sean Hsiang-lin LEI (Director, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)
“Civilization vs. Essence-Function (Tiyong): Tianyan Lun (On Heavenly Evolution) and the Birth of Science as Cultural Authority in China”

15:30–17:30
Session I. Asian Research Libraries and Asian Research Resources
Chair: Linda GROVE (Harvard-Yenching Institute; Toyo Bunko)

TAKATA Tokio (Library Dept., Toyo Bunko)
“From Morrison Library to Toyo Bunko: Expanding Traditional Chinese Book Collection”

Jidong YANG (Harvard-Yenching Library)
“East Asian Collections in American Academic Libraries: Past, Present, and Future”

MIURA Toru (West Asian Studies Grp., Toyo Bunko)
“Prospectus for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the Toyo Bunko”

SHIROYAMA Tomoko (The University of Tokyo; Toyo Bunko)
“Goals and Agendas of The University of Tokyo Asian Research Library”

November 17 (Sun.)
10:00–12:00
Session II. Various Kinds of Asian Sources and New Research Methods (I)
Chair: HAMASHITA Takeshi

CHOI Chi-cheung (Xiamen University)
“Fieldwork and Archives: An Integrated Approach towards the Understanding of Communal Festivals in Hong Kong”

XU Xiaojie (Toyo Bunko)
“Decoding the Historical Memory of ‘Paper’: A Study Integrating Humanities and Sciences”

NAKATSUKA Ryo (Toyo Bunko)
“Exploring the Intertextual Origins of Fēngshén Yǎnyì Using N-Gram Text Mining”

AIHARA Yoshiyuki (Toyo Bunko)
“History and Prospects of Research Database Construction in Toyo Bunko”

13:00–13:50
Exhibition Session. Toyo Bunko’s 100th Anniversary Exhibition and Its Collections

14:00–15:30
Session III. Various Kinds of Asian Sources and New Research Methods (II)
Roundtable participants:
Linda GROVE (Chair and Presentation)
“Preserving Fieldwork Records for Future Researchers”

Matthew NOELLERT (Hitotsubashi University)
“The China Rural Revolution Dataset Series: Toward an Empirical Understanding of Early PRC Society”

Devin FITZGERALD (UCLA Library)
“From Area Studies to Global Studies: Three New Objects and Their Global Entanglements in UCLA Library Special Collections”

NAKAMURA Satoru (Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo)
“Technologies Supporting the Digitalization of Historical Materials”

YOSHIMIZU Chizuko (Tibetan Studies Grp., Toyo Bunko)
“Preservation and Transmission of Tibetan Cultural Heritage: The Eighty-Four Year History and New Initiatives in Tibetan Studies at Toyo Bunko”

16:00–17:30
Session IV. Long-Term Outlook: The Next 100 Years
Roundtable participants:
HAMASHITA Takeshi (Chair)
HIROSUE Masashi (Southeast Asian Studies Grp., Toyo Bunko)
KIKUCHI Chihiro (Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo)
KOMATSU Hisao (Central Asian Studies Grp., Toyo Bunko)
Costantino MORETTI (Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient)
UMEMURA Hiroshi (Central Asian Studies Grp., Toyo Bunko)

17:30–18:00
Closing Session.
Linda GROVE
KISHIMOTO Mio (Premodern Chinese Studies Grp., Toyo Bunko)
AOYAMA Rumi (Waseda University; Contemporary Chinese Studies Grp., Toyo Bunko)
HAMASHITA Takeshi