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Waseda University established the Waseda Research Award in 2014 to promote innovative research at the university and disseminate its results...

A historian of Song-Yuan China, Professor Tomoyasu IIYAMA deserves commendation for a myriad of reasons. First of all, his innovative work on stone stele inscriptions provides keen insight into what traditional sources do not convey about Yuan North China. Iiyama’s findings on lineage, patronage, and political power reveal key differences between northern and southern China, and identify new patterns of negotiation between dynastic authority and local elites at a time of deep political change...