Assistant Professor MIYA, Noriko
Assistant Professor MIYA, Noriko
- Academic Degree
- Ph.D. in Letters, Kyoto University
- Expertise
- Chinese literature
- Research Theme
- Politics and culture in the Mongol period
Cultural exchange and institutions in the Mongol period through Eastern and Western sources
The Mongol period has been viewed as a dark age in which Chinese culture was utterly destroyed. In fact, however, senior officials employed at court at the time established Confucian education across the entire country, and there was explosive development of joint public-private publishing efforts, particularly in fourteenth-century South China. This was enormously influential not only on contemporary Goguryeo and Japan but also on later Joseon and Ming culture. The Mongols authored texts describing everything from regional folkways to bureaucratic officialdom in an organized, orderly fashion, allowing historical surveys of these topics, and were fond of visual materials like books of diagrams and illustrations. My research will draw on not only this wealth of writings, inscriptions, documents, and unearthed materials but also ancient Persian manuscripts and sources from European languages to elucidate the truth about policymaking, East-West interaction, and other aspects of the thirteenth- to fifteenth-century Mongol Empire and its various successor powers.