Historian of Japan @durham_history. Author of One Hundred Million Philosophers (Hawai’i 2016). Work in progress on rumors, public opinion and political culture.
We are living through a collision of economic trajectories set in motion forty years ago: Xi Jinping’s attachment to export-driven industrialization, pitted against Trump’s decades-long fixation on protectionist tariffs. https://t.co/1ynVpjvGWX
Delighted to announce that my article 'Eastern isles, western isles: Geographical imaginaries and trans-island identities in British conceptions of Japan, 1800–1868' is now published Open Access!
Featuring confused geographers and lots of maps of Japan: https://t.co/GqDdycP8e5
Louise Young examines four different versions of "presentism" in her article in MIH on "Past and Present in Japanese Historiography: Four Versions of Presentism" https://t.co/UQbzzfVcH8