Sherzod Muminov - Overcoming empire in post-Imperial East Asia : repatriation, redressand rebuilding

OVERCOMING EMPIRE IN POST-IMPERIAL EAST ASIA

SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan

SERIES EDITOR:

Christopher Gerteis (SOAS, University of London, UK)

EDITORIAL BOARD:

Stephen Dodd (SOAS, University of London, UK)

Andrew Gerstle (SOAS, University of London, UK)

Janet Hunter (London School of Economics, UK)

Barak Kushner (University of Cambridge, UK)

Helen Macnaughtan (SOAS, University of London, UK)

Aaron W. Moore (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Timon Screech (SOAS, University of London, UK)

Naoko Shimazu (NUS-Yale College, Singapore)

Published in association with the Japan Research Centre at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.

SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan features scholarly books on modern and contemporary Japan, showcasing new research monographs as well as translations of scholarship not previously available in English. Its goal is to ensure that current, high quality research on Japan, its history, politics and culture, is made available to an English speaking audience.

Published:

Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan, Jan Bardsley

Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan, Emily Anderson

The China Problem in Postwar Japan, Robert Hoppens

Media, Propaganda and Politics in 20th-Century Japan,The Asahi Shimbun Company (translated by Barak Kushner)

Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen, Griseldis Kirsch

Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan, edited by Patrick W. Galbraith, Thiam Huat Kam and Bjrn-Ole Kamm

Politics and Power in Twentieth-Century Japan, Mikuriya Takashi and Nakamura Takafusa (translated by Timothy S. George)

Japanese Taiwan, edited by Andrew D. Morris

Japans Postwar Military and Civil Society, Tomoyuki Sasaki

The History of Japanese Psychology, Brian J. McVeigh

Postwar Emigration to South America from Japan and the Ryukyu Islands, Pedro Iacobelli

Selected Essays by Fukuzawa Yukichi, Albert M. Craig (translated by Teruko Craig)

The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan, Sari Kawana

Post-Fascist Japan, Laura Hein

Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan, Martyn David Smith

Japans Occupation of Java in the Second World War, Ethan Mark

Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan, Taka Oshikiri

Engineering Asia, Hiromi Mizuno, Aaron S. Moore and John DiMoia

Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Japan and Britain, Simon Gunn and Susan C. Townsend

The Origins of Modern Japanese Bureaucracy, Yuichiro Shimizu (translated by Amin Ghadimi)

Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism, Yuka Hiruma Kishida

Forthcoming:

Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan, Mire Koikari

OVERCOMING EMPIRE IN POST-IMPERIAL EAST ASIA

Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding

Barak Kushner,

University of Cambridge

and

Sherzod Muminov,

University of East Anglia

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CHANG Chihyun

Chang Chihyun received his doctorate from the University of Bristol, with a thesis on the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, focusing on Chinese nationalism and the foreign colonial presence in China. In 2010 he joined the Center for Geographic Information Science and in 2011 the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica as a postdoctoral fellow, where he continued his study of modern China and imperial maritime customs and trade. He later accepted the offer of a research fellowship from the Department of History at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai. He has published Government, Nationalism and Imperialism in China (2013) and The L. K. Little Diaries, 19431954: The Witness of Chinese Revolutions and Wars (2016).

Arnaud DOGLIA

Arnaud Doglia is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is interested in contemporary Japan and East Asia. He received his MA (East Asian studies) and his PhD (Japanese studies) from the University of Geneva. His first book, published by Peter Lang, is entitled Japanese Biological Warfare, 18802011: Historical Realities and the Anatomy of Memory (2016). His current research, Japanese Medical Atrocities: Narratives of Reconversion of Former War Criminals in Postwar Japan, seeks to analyze in depth the network of scientists and physicians who participated in medical experiments until 1945, equally discussing their profile, reconversion and responsibility. Other topics of interest include the birth of bioethics in Japan, Japanese war crimes and their memories in East Asia, the Second World War and Cold War atrocities as well as social history and popular culture during the Allied Occupation and in postwar Japan.

Koji HIRATA

Koji Hirata is a research fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His research centers on the history of industry, city, empires, and globalization in modern China. His current book project, Steel Metropolis: Industrial Manchuria and the Making of Chinese Socialism, 19171975, examines the development of state-owned enterprises, the concepts and practice of urban planning, and the politics of everyday life among workers in twentieth-century China. Methodologically, his research combines examination of economic activities informed by the literature on political economy, a cultural history analysis of the language used in historical texts, and a transnational history approach to the movement of ideas, goods, and people across national boundaries. His dissertation makes use of archival documents in Chinese, Japanese, English, and Russian as well as oral history interviews.

Matthew D. JOHNSON

Matthew D. Johnson is an associate fellow of the Global Diplomatic Forum, an independent political analyst, and a higher education consultant. Previously, he was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Taylors University, Malaysia, and served on the board of the Malaysian-American Commission on Educational Exchange. He is a co-founder and director of the PRC History Group (http://prchistory.org/) and board member (at-large) of the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China. His publications include Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in Chinas Era of High Socialism (co-edited with Jeremy Brown, 2015) and a forthcoming chapter on PRC responses to US cultural diplomacy and global strategy during the Kennedy administration.

Yukiko KOGA

Yukiko Koga is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College at the City University of New York, CUNY Graduate Center, and Associate Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. She is the author of the award winning Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire (2016), which explores how the introduction of the market-oriented economy in China created new dynamics concerning the contested yet under-explored past for both the Chinese and Japanese. Whereas Inheritance of Loss is set within the burgeoning economic sphere of Northeast China to explore the generational transmission of unaccounted for pasts stemming from Japanese imperialism in China, her book-in-progress takes place within a transnational legal sphere. She is currently completing a book entitled Post-imperial Reckoning: Law, Redress, Reconciliation