近代国家の成立と変容は東アジアの社会生活にどんな影響を与えてきたか。本研究は神戸地域と華僑の関係構築における国家の作用を論述した。

　明治期から戦後にかけての神戸の地方史、地方新聞、華僑に関する調査と報告、そして、神戸華僑自身の記述、コミュニティの新聞、自己演出のイベントなどについて考察が行われた。

　神戸と華僑の関係構築において、利益競争への関心、国家への関心、道徳倫理への関心という三者の緊張関係が示された。神戸地域も華僑も国家へ一体化するにつれ、生活世界に対する関心と他者認識が狭められ、グローバリゼーションの中で、国家は関係構築における認識と関心を狭めた上で再開放させる、という構造になる。

　「アイデンティティ」などのイデオロギーのために、人間は何が失われたのだろうか。本研究は、関係構築の視点からそれを問いつつ、華僑研究に新しい問題領域を開拓した。

　What influence has the modern nation state given to the social life of east Asia? What was lost when people get for the ideology such as "Identity"? This study ask it from the aspect of the relation construction. It analyzed the action of the nation in the relation construction between Kobe region and the overseas Chinese over there.

　From the Meiji era period to postwar days, consideration such as a local history, provincial papers of Kobe, the investigation report concerning the overseas Chinese, and the overseas Chinese's own descriptions, newspapers of the community, events for the self-production was done. Through these materials, how the relation is constructed, what role did the nation play is considered.

　In the relation construction between Kobe and overseas Chinese, the tense relation of three elements was shown: the concern for the nation, the concern for the profit competition, and the concern for morality ethics. The Kobe region and the overseas Chinese had narrowing their concern and their recognition to the life world while integration into the national system. Inthe globalization, the nation releases them after it narrows them. this process becomes a structure to recognition and the concern in the relation construction. The present study also thinks about the possibility of constructive relations scheme under the nation.