General theme: Transformation of East Asian Environment in Historical Perspective: Local Reality and Global Connection With this general theme, panels or individual papers are encouraged to focus on the following sub-themes in comparative perspective. Each proposal of panel should include 3 or 4 papers with abstracts of the panel itself and all papers. Each panel organizer should take the responsibility to login for submitting all abstracts of the panel. Each Individual paper should be submitted by the individual him/herself. The length of each abstract should be no more than 300 words.