Team 3: East Asian Mediterranean
Bankoku sōzu 萬國總圖, Nagasaki, 1671
Team 3 focuses on three main themes:
- East Asian nation states or 'territorial' areas versus the East Asian world
- the nature of exchange relations in the Asian world
- military, political and religious influence on the development of early maritime trade
Team 3 Leader: Angela Schottenhammer, University of Salzburg
Schottenhammer is a Professor of Non-European and World History in the History Department at the University of Salzburg, Austria. She formerly held posts in Pre–modern Chinese History at Ghent University, and El Colegio de México, in Chinese Studies at Ludwig Maximilians University and in Chinese History at Marburg University – both in Germany. From 2002-9, Schottenhammer was PI of "The East Asian Mediterranean, c. 1500–1850," an international research project sponsored by the VW–Foundation. She is currently establishing an international Research Centre on Exchange Relations in the East Asian World.
Team 3 Collaborators
| Name | affiliation | focus |
|---|---|---|
| Akifumi Iwabuchi | Tokyo University of Marine Science & Technology | Marine Culturology |
| Tansen Sen | Baruch College, The City University of New York | History of Buddhism and the Silk Road |
| Geoff Wade | Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore | Sino-Southeast Asian historical interactions |
| Jun Kimura | Tokai University | East Asian maritime archeology and shipbuilding |
| Mathieu Torck | Ghent University | Social anthropology of China |
