This international symposium aims to explore how diverse fields such as literature, medicine, history, and Buddhism intersect and complement each other to form new understandings. It will examine the historical backgrounds of these disciplines and the impact they have on contemporary scholarship and society, elucidating how their interactions have facilitated academic development.
\nThe symposium will focus on how the unique knowledge systems and cultural backgrounds of literature, medicine, history, and Buddhism influence one another, generating new insights and perspectives. Through specific case studies, we will discuss how these fields have interacted and resonated across academic boundaries.
\nAdditionally, we will consider how intercultural exchanges have fostered advancements within each discipline and generated new cultural understandings. The symposium will also address the implications of these exchanges for modern society and explore future possibilities. By adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, we aim to highlight how literature, medicine, history and Buddhism have mutually reinforced each other, providing new knowledge and understanding, and offering insights into the future of the humanities and social sciences.<\/p>\n
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\u3000CHEN Ming is currently a Professor and Head of the Department of South Asian Studies at Peking University. He has focused on the history of cultural communication between China and Central & South Asia in the Medieval Period, mainly but not exclusively in terms of medicine. His academic interests have also been extended to a study on Buddhist literature in Sanskrit-Chinese, and the influence of ancient South Asian literature on China.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/10\/cf36a3a8b853c7b496f540df3a55d6bc.jpg\")
\u3000MACHI Senjuro is a professor at the Nishogakusya University and a head of the Institute for East Asian Studies. His research interests are in the field of Japanese history of Chinese studies and Japanese history of medicine, with a focus on the Chinese literature and medical literature of the 16th-19th centuries.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/10\/b75120cfea5eef538cc994d74e2a3c64.jpg\")
\u3000MAYANAGI Makoto is a Emeritus Professor at Ibaraki Univerity. His research interests include the history of medicine in the Chinese-speaking world, the history of pharmaceutical cultural exchange and pharmaceutical bibliography.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/11\/93d8affcd953a149e78f552c88e23cf2.jpg\")
IRIGUCHI Atsushi is a Professor, Deputy Director-General at the National Institute of Japanese Literature.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/10\/f483c904a376d07d05eea7c22d994822.jpg\")
\u3000DING Li is a Professor at School of Foreign Language, Peking University. She specialises in Heian Monogatari literature and Sino-Japanese comparative literature.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/10\/s2_Leee.jpg\")
\u3000Associate Professor of Japanese History, International College of Liberal Arts, Yamanashi Gakuin University. His research focuses on early modern Japanese medical history and intellectual history, with an eye on modern and contemporary body politics.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/10\/4c33b85a1335b39ed20461645d417615.jpg\")
KOMINE Kazuaki is a Emeritus Professor at Rikkyo University. A scholar of Japanese medieval literature. His research areas are Humanities & Social Sciences and Japanese literature.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/10\/bebfe5b04b6c2a93a4e8cddf1037b97f.jpg\")
\u3000LI Mingjing is a Professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Renmin University of China, and Head of the Japanese Language Department. Doctoral advisor. Specializes in Japanese classical literature, Buddhist literature, and the transmission of external Chinese texts.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/10\/e2d4d4fa6a1d044196f8c8d3a7c97556.jpg\")
\u3000YI Dan is a reseacher of Yanai Initiative, Waseda. Her research interests include classical Japanese literature, Chinese and Japanese comparative literature and the history of East Asian cultural exchange. She is particularly interested in literary and cultural exchanges related to medicine and conducts research on the spread of Chinese medical culture in Japan.<\/p>\n