Researcher and Faculty Information

Yu Ya Ugh

YU Ya

Research Field: History, World History, Cultural History, Geography Foreign Languages

comment: I am currently conducting research in the Yellow River basin to find out what kind of cultural significance wheat flour foods have for the Chinese people. I have also traveled around Asia, including Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, and Taiwan, and conducted research while eating there. I am also broadly interested in food-related cultures, and compare and consider not only the technical and material aspects of food, but also its cultural and folkloric aspects. I am currently interested in the issue of landscape and food.

Main publications and papers: ・"The Meaning of Gyoza Eating and Regional Characteristics in Shandong Province, China" Human Geography, Vol. 57, No. 4, 2005
・"The current development and meaning of gyoza eating in rural China --A case study of Shandong Province--" 2005, Research Bulletin of the Asahi Beer Academic Promotion Foundation's Research Grant on Food Science, Culture and Earth Environmental Science (2004), Vol. 19
・"Ancient Chinese Food Culture as Seen in Han Dynasty Stone Pictures: A Case Study of Shandong Province" Hyogo Chiri 2010 No. 55
・“Shanghai food scene during the Guo Muruo era” 2012 Collection of essays commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Sixth High School Guo Muruo research
・Co-author of "Gyoza: From Shandong to the Three Northeast Provinces and to Japan" (2015) Geography 60(10)

Main classes taught: Asian urban development (geography), urban development research methods, Chinese