Report of 8th Research Meeting of East Asia Culture Research Meeting of 2012

Date: 7th November 2012

Time: 18:30-20:30

Venue: Hosei University Ichigaya Campus, ’58 Building 2F Research Center for International Japanese Studies Seminar Room

Speaker: Keiichi Uchida (Professor, Kansai University)

Theme: Linguistic Contact and Cultural Interaction Studies: From a Place of Chinese Linguistics and Translation Studies

Chair: Ming Wan (Professor, Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies)

Executive Summary
In this meeting, Professor Dr.Uchida examined cross-cultural communication between the East and the West focusing on linguistic contact based on a method of clutural interaction studies. In this time, an example of discussion was orientalization of Aesop’s Fables.