Zuowei quyu shi de Dong'a wenhua jiaoliu shi -- wenti yishi yu yanjiu zhuti.

This article incorporates the history of East Asian cultural interactions into the field of “regional history,” and proposes certain subjects to be explored. The article consists of five sections. Section 1 aims to draw attention to “regional history,” an emerging discipline different from “national history”-which occupied great academic interest in the 20th century-and “global history”-a speedily heating issue in the 21st century. Section 2 suggests a new way of study in “regional history”: to shift our focus from the “result” of cultural interactions to the “process”, thus making a “paradigm shift” as well as in the study of history of East Asian cultural interactions. Section 3 raises two problematiques in the proposed field of “regional history”: the mutual influence between “self” and “other” and that between “culture” and “power structure.” Section 4 proposes three types of “interaction” for further research: (1) interaction of personage (between “professional intermediate agents” and “others”); (2) interaction of articles (especially books); (3) interaction of thoughts. The last section concludes that, with the rise of East Asian countries on the world stage n the 21st century, the state-centrist style of historical study shall be re-directed to a broader East Asian perspective. By redefining the “history of East Asian cultural interactions” as “regional history,” we will be able to make crucial revisits to and reflection upon our traditional cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]