The "Global" and the "Local" in Early Modern and Modern East Asia

Introduction: An Overview / Benjamin A. Elman

Part 1. Is World History Possible?

Is There Still Value in National History in the Trend towards Global History? / Zhaoguang Ge

Is a World History of Ideas Possible? / Federico Marcon

Part 2. What Forms of Globalism Took Shape in Traditional East Asia?

Conditional Universality and World History in Modern Philosophy in East Asia / Nakajima Takahiro

A New Global History and Regional Histories / Masashi Haneda

A Jointly Regional-Global Approach to Rethinking Early Modern East Asian History / Benjamin A. Elman

Part 3. How Did Internationalism Emerge in Modern Chinese and Japanese Higher Education?

Internationalization from Within : 140 Years of Internationalization at the University of Tokyo / Jin Sato

Global History in China : Inheritance and Innovation : a Case Study of the Development of World History in the History Department of Fudan University / Yunshen Gu

Part 4. Doing "World" or "Global" History as "Transnational" History

From "East Asia" to "East Asian Maritime Worlds" : The Pros and Cons of the Construction of a Historical World / Shaoxin Dong

From Sri Lanka to East Asia : A Short History of a Buddhist Scripture / Norihisa Baba

"Nobody Changed Their Old Customs" : Tang Views on the History of the World / Tineke d'Haeseleer

The Korean Response to Xue Xuan's Enshrinement in Ming Confucian Temples / Xinlei Wang

Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century World / Yasushi Oki and Shiro Kuriwaki

Tales of an Open World : The Fall of the Ming Dynasty as Dutch Tragedy, Chinese Rumor, and Global News / Paize Keulemans

The Regulation of Sailors in the Maritime Trade between Jiangnan and Nagasaki in Early Qing China / Zhenzhong Wang

The Transnational History of Japanese Thrift / Sheldon Garon

Coda / Benjamin Elman.