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Professor Rana Mitter Email rana.mitter@chinese.ox.ac.uk
Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, and a Fellow of St Cross College. He is the author of The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance and Collaboration in Modern China (California, 2000) and A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World (Oxford, 2004), for which he was named Young Academic Author of the Year by the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2005, and he co-edited (with Sheila Jager) Ruptured Histories: War and Memory in the Post-Cold War (Harvard, 2007). His most recent book is Modern China: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2008). His articles have appeared in journals including The China Quarterly, Modern China, and The Historical Journal. He presents and contributes regularly to programmes on television and radio, including Night Waves and The Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3. His essays and reviews have appeared in publications including the London Review of Books, Financial Times, and History Today. http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/staff/postholder/mitter_r.htm http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/staff/staff.asp?action=show&person=119&special= http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/html/staff/ea/chinese/rmitter.html Two of his recently published articles can be accessed here; these are links to the abstracts; you may need an institutional subscription to access the full text version: "The Visual Imaginary of the War of Resistance, 1937-1947" in European Journal of East Asian Studies, Volume 7, Number 2, 2008 , pp. 167-192(26) "Writing War: Autobiography, Modernity and Wartime Narrative in Nationalist China, 1937–1946" in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Sixth Series) (2008), 18 : 187-210 Cambridge University Press
Research Associates
Dr Sherman Lai Email: sherman.lai@history.ox.ac.uk
Dr Helen Schneider Email: helen.schneider@history.ox.ac.uk
Dr Helen Schneider, a native of Washington, DC, received her BA from Swarthmore College and her PhD in History from the University of Washington in Seattle. She also spent time studying at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in Nanjing, at the Mandarin Training Center in Taipei, in Harbin and in Beijing. She is currently on leave from her position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Virginia Tech (in Blacksburg, Virginia) where she teaches East Asian history. Helen’s first monograph uses the discipline of home economics as a lens to examine how educated Chinese women interpreted their domestic and professional identities and created careers to meet the needs of the nation over the course of the twentieth century. Her current projects include the cross-cultural professional interactions of home economists in the United States and China, a study of Nationalist women’s mobilization for social relief during the Sino-Japanese War, and the role of international aid in China during and immediately following the war.
Dr Annie Hongping Nie Email hongping.nie@chinese.ox.ac.uk
Dr. Hongping Annie Nie came from China and did her graduate study in the United States (MA, Calvin College, Michigan, 1995; Ph.D., Biola University, California, 2005). She has been a tutor on Chinese Politics for different colleges at the University of Oxford since 2005. She was also a research assistant at the Department of Politics and International Relations and a language instructor at the Institute for Chinese Studies before she joined the project. Her research interests include nationalism, citizenship education, foreign relations and diplomacy in contemporary China.
Dr Matthew Johnson Email johnsonm@grinnell.edu
Matthew D. Johnson (PhD, UC San Diego, History) is Departmental Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China, Faculty of History. His research interests include international political communication, propaganda, Cold War studies, the League of Nations, and modern state formation. He is currently writing a book manuscript entitled /Before Soft Power: International Image-Making and the Chinese Communist Party, 1928-1980./ Matthew has published reviews and articles on contemporary filmmaking in China, co-edited a special issue of the /Journal of Chinese Cinemas/, and is involved in a variety of projects on the political uses of media during the twentieth century. He is a former employee of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, U.S. Department of Education Jacob K. Javits fellow, U.S. Fulbright IIE student fellow, and visiting researcher in the Department of History, Peking University.
Dr James Reilly Email james.reilly@sydney.edu.au
James Reilly was a Research Associate on the China's War with Japan programme in 2008-09. He is now Lecturer in International Relations of East Asia at the University of Sydney. He received his Ph.D. from George Washington University in August 2008 in Political Science. Dr. Reilly researches Chinese foreign policy, China-Japan relations, and state-society relations in China. He is currently preparing a book manuscript for publication based upon his dissertation: “The Role of Public Opinion in China’s Japan Policy: 1997-2007.” Dr. Reilly’s research, supported by a Fulbright-Hays dissertation grant, explores the role of public opinion in the foreign policy of authoritarian countries by drawing upon Chinese public opinion poll data, quantitative content analysis of Chinese publications, and extensive interviews with Chinese and Japanese scholars, officials, businesspeople, and activists. Dr. Reilly has published articles in The Washington Quarterly, China: An International Journal, Asian Survey, Survival, and several chapters in edited books. From 2001 through 2007, he was based in Dalian, China, where he served as the East Asia Representative of the American Friends Service Committee. He was a Fulbright Scholar based at Renmin University of China for the 2007-08 academic year. He holds an M.A. in East Asian Studies from the University of Washington, and a B. A. in History from Guilford College.
Dr Federica Ferlanti Email FerlantiF@cardiff.ac.uk
Federica Ferlanti was a Research Associate on the China's War with Japan programme in 2007-09. She is now Lecturer in Moden Chinese History at the University of Cardiff. Federica Ferlanti’s research field is Modern Chinese History and specifically China’s state-building and political history during the 1930s and 1940s. Federica holds B.A. Hons from Università di Venezia (DSAO, 1995), M.Phil. from University of Cambridge (Oriental Studies, 1996), and Ph.D. from Università di Cagliari (DiSPI, 2003). Her doctoral thesis "The New Life Movement and the Politics of the Guomindang in Jiangxi Province, 1934-1936"' explores the development of the New Life Movement, its long-term impact on political and administrative institutions, along with its contribution in shaping citizenship and national identity. Federica has taught Modern and Contemporary Chinese History at Università di Venezia at Treviso (2003-2004) and has been a recipient of the Post-doctoral Fellowship awarded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (2004-2006) with a project entitled "New Life Movement, civilian mobilisation, and state-building during the War against Japan, 1937-1945." Her current project explores the Nationalist government’s commitment to the organisation of popular resistance during the war against Japan, society’s response to the mobilisation in support of the war, and the impact of the war on Chinese society.
Dr Aaron William Moore Email aaron_w_moore@hotmail.com
Aaron William Moore (PhD Princeton 2006) is a specialist in modern East Asian history. In 2008-10 he was a postdoctoral Research Associate with the China's War with Japan programme, and in February 2010 he took up an appointment as Lecturer in Chinese History at the University of Manchester. His research, transnational in approach, primarily involves the critical study of subjectivity and diary writing during the Second World War, including texts written by Japanese, Chinese, and American servicemen. He is also working on nineteenth century Japanese anthropology, children's writings and language, work diaries in 1950s mainland China, and the intersection between popular Chinese, Japanese, and Russian genres such as science fiction with broader discourses on social management, gender, technology, and the body. His publications currently include "Essential Ingredients of Truth" (Japan Focus, August 2007), "The Chimera of Privacy" (Journal of Asian Studies, February 2009), "Talk about Heroes: Expressions of Self-Mobilization and Despair in Chinese War Diaries, 1911-1938" (Twentieth Century China, Spring 2009) as well as reviews and translations. Moore's current manuscript project is provisionally entitled, "The Peril of Self-Discipline: Chinese Nationalist, Japanese, and American Servicemen Record the Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1937-1945." His research languages include Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. At Oxford, he explored the wartime diaries of American, Chinese, and Japanese servicemen during the Second World War, focusing his efforts on the critical period 1939-1945 in mainland China. His work will contribute to an ongoing discussion among area specialists on the nature of the Japanese occupation, the effectiveness of Chinese resistance, and the successes and failures of mobilization efforts on either side. In particular, he shows how individual servicemen described their experiences during this period, and how these descriptions affected their concepts of soldiering, warfare, and the self. For Spring 2009, Moore won funding to support two conferences at Oxford. The first concerned the role of the wartime generation in the construction of historical memory in East Asia. The second examined representations of humans and machines in twentieth century China, Japan, the USSR, and Asian North America.
Dr Tehyun Ma Email: t.ma@bbk.ac.uk
Tehyun Ma received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and just completed her Ph.D. in History at the University of Bristol. Her research probes the ideological and administrative preoccupations of Chinese Nationalist leaders as they strove to mobilise Taiwan for conflict with the Communists after 1945. Her current project explores how the Nationalist Government planned the rehabilitation and reconstruction of territories occupied by the Japanese during the Second World War. Tehyun has taught at the University of Bristol and has held an Overseas Research Studentship and a Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation dissertation fellowship.
Ms Lily Chang Email: lc428@cam.ac.uk
Her DPhil thesis was entitled: “Contested Childhoods: Law and Social Deviance in Wartime China, 1937-1945.” The thesis examined how the outbreak of China’s War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945) served as a catalyst to an increase in criminality involving juveniles. Drawing on over 400 previously unexamined legal case records and archival materials from four different Chinese archives, the study demonstrated how the social circumstances of war served as an important catalyst to the recognition and institutionalisation of ideas about children and childhood within the judicial and legal settings. She is currently working a monograph that compares the development of a juvenile justice system in China, Japan, France, Germany, and the Netherlands during the Second World War.
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Ms Sha Hua Email sha.hua@history.ox.ac.uk
Ms Elina Sinkkonen Email: elina.sinkkonen@politics.ox.ac.uk.
Elina Sinkkonen graduated (M.Soc.Sc., 2008) from University of Helsinki, where her major was political science. She wrote her master’s thesis on national identity construction in China, for which she conducted her fieldwork in Beijing. In addition to Helsinki, Elina has studied Chinese language and culture at the Renmin University of China (Beijing) and at the Fudan University (Shanghai). Her research has been funded by among others Kone Foundation, Joel Toivola Foundation and various University of Helsinki’s funds. From 2007 to 2009 Elina worked as coordinator of Asia-Pacific Studies at the University of Helsinki, where her responsibilities included teaching BA/MA level courses both in English and in Finnish. In her DPhil thesis Elina analyses national identity construction in Chinese and Japanese top universities with an emphasis on the role(s) history and its representations play in identity construction. More information on Elina can be found from her personal webpage http://www.elinasinkkonen.com.
Ms Amy King Email: amy.king@trinity.ox.ac.uk
Amy is a DPhil Candidate in International Relations at Trinity College, Oxford, and an Australian Rhodes Scholar. Her doctoral research examines how the legacy of China’s war with Japan shaped China’s foreign policy towards Japan during the early years of the Cold War. Amy’s broader research interests include international security and the international relations of Northeast Asia. Amy has a B.A. in International Relations (with first class honours) and a B.Bus from the University of South Australia, an MPhil in Chinese (with distinction) from the University of Oxford, and has undertaken periods of study at Peking University and Okayama University. Prior to studying at Oxford, Amy worked as a research associate at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Canberra, and the Centre for International Risk in Adelaide, Australia. Email: tl99@leicester.ac.uk
Dr Andres Rodriguez Email: a.rodriguez@soton.ac.uk
Andres Rodriguez (D.Phil Oxford 2009) is currently Lecturer in Modern Asian History at the University of Southampton. His research focuses on the role played by China’s borderlands in the debates surrounding the re-building (and rethinking) of China during the early twentieth century. In particular, he looks at the impact of transnational networks on the shaping of ideas, research and mobilization of Chinese intellectuals in the borderlands during the wartime period (1937-45). Andres is currently revising his dissertation into a book manuscript provisionally entitled ‘Reconstructing China’s Frontier: Global and Local Encounters in China’s Southwest Borderlands (1911-1945)’. It attempts to show how global ideas of anthropology, education, and Christian missionary practices, mostly borne out of colonial contexts in both Asia and Africa, were successively indigenized by Chinese intellectuals in their pursuit of reconstructing a modern unified and civic identity for the inhabitants of the borderland areas. Recent publications include “Building the Nation, Serving the Frontier: Mobilising and Reconstructing China’s Borderlands during the War of Resistance (1937-1945)”, Modern Asian Studies, 45:2, (2011), Special Issue: China in World War II, 1937-1945: Experience, Memory, and Legacy, 345-376 and “Modern China’s Borders” in Naomi Standen ed. Demystifying China: new understandings of Chinese history, (Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield) Forthcoming 2012.
Email: luokerasa@gmail.com
Nik is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department of Nanjing University. He is recipient of a Chinese Ministry of Education Research Scholarship, for which he was nominated by the University of Oxford in 2009 while reading for an MSc in Modern Chinese Studies there. He obtained his bachelor degree, with a focus on Modern Chinese Language and History, from Bennington College in Vermont in 2007 and received his primary and secondary schooling mostly in Germany and the USA. The focus of his thesis, higher education in Nanjing between 1939 and 1945 under the Wang Jingwei government, brings together his main research interests: different perspectives on the 'Anti-Japanese War', the history of the university in China, the historical significance of China's younger generation, and the evolution of Chinese identity and nationalism. In particular, one aspect of Nik's doctorate research looks at various records and documents, held at different libraries and archives in Nanjing, Shanghai and Taipei, relating to various aspects of the 1940 to 1945 incarnation of National Central University in Nanjing. In addition to his research, Nik is also involved with INP (INC Tokyo – Nanjing University Project), an organisation dedicated to promoting mutual understanding between Chinese and Japanese youth, and has been invited to participate in meetings discussing the establishment of a museum of the culture and art of Republican China, sponsored and attended by representatives of the organisation for descendants of Whampoa Military Academy graduates from both Mainland China and Taiwan.
Email chinawar@history.ox.ac.uk Ms Boyle is the first point of contact for queries. |
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