Modern Japanese History
Intellectual and Cultural
History History of Migration

Articles (refereed)

• "Drift and Modernity: On Mid-twentieth Century Japanese Intellectual Discourses" Japanese Studies (forthcoming)

• “Exploring the New Middle Ages: Japanese Intellectual Discourses and the Eurasian Intersection” EuropeNow (Sept 2023)

• "Ōrui Noburu’s Cross-Cultural Inquiry into the Histories of the Renaissance as a Critique of Modernity" Asian Studies Review (May 2023)

• "On Hani Gorō’s Exploration of the Renaissance" Japan Forum (Nov 2022)

• “Histories of Modern Migration in East Asia: Studies of the First Half of the Twentieth Century” (with Qian Zhu), International Journal of Asian Studies 14:2 (July 2017)

• “Racial Contacts across the Pacific and the Creation of Minzoku in the Japanese Empire,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 17:2 (Jun 2016): 186-205.

Book Chapters (refereed)

• “Migration and the Formation of a Diverse Japanese Nation during the First Half  of the Twentieth Century,” in Pedro Iacobelli, Danton Leary, and Shinnosuke Takahashi (eds.), Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, and Social Movements (Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Reviews

• “A Folklorist as Translator,” Review of Melek Ortabashi’s The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio. H-Net Reviews (Sep 2015).

• “Japan’s Northeast: Regionalism and Nationalism,” Review of Nathan Hopson’s Dissertation “Tōhoku as Postwar Thought: Regionalism, Nationalism, and Culturalism in Japan’s Northeast.” Japan Studies Dissertation Reviews (Dec 2013).

Externally-funded

• (01/2018-02/2022) Principal Investigator, ECS “On Transpacific Japanese Migration”

• (01/2022-12/2024) Principal Investigator, GRF “On Mid-twentieth Century Japanese Intellectual History”

Internally-funded

• Start-up grant (HKBU)