Cambridge-UTokyo ECR Research Exchange: New Frontiers of Scholarship on Modern East Asia

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Keynote presentation

Title: East Asia’s ‘Cold War’ and Relations between Japan, China and Taiwan: Chiang Kai-shek and the Diplomacy of Ōhira Masayoshi

Presenter: Professor Shin Kawashima (University of Tokyo)

Comments: Dr. John Nilsson-Wright (Cambridge)

Dr. Shin Kawashima 川島真 is a professor in the Department of International Relations at the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, University of Tokyo who specialises in the diplomatic history and international relations of China and East Asia. He was educated at the University of Tokyo, receiving his M.A. and Ph.D. in East Asian History in 1992 and 2000, respectively. He taught at Hokkaido University's Department of Politics, Faculty of Law from 1998 to 2006, before joining the University of Tokyo in 2006. He has also taught and conducted research visits at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica (Taipei), the Beijing Center for Japanese Studies, Peking University, National Chengchi University (Taipei), and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is currently an affiliate member of the Science Council of Japan, vice-chairman of the Asian Political Economy Association, and vice-president of the Japanese Society for the History of Modern East Asia. His first book, Chūgoku kindai gaikō no keisei 中国近代外交の形成 (The Formation of Chinese Modern Diplomacy, Nagoya University Press, 2004), was awarded the Suntory Academic Prize in 2004. In 2023, he received an award from the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs for his contribution to advancing Japanese studies in China and Taiwan. 

ECR Presentations

Title: Kantei Gaikō Minus One? Special Envoys and the Origins of Executive Diplomacy in Postwar Japan

Presenter: Dr. Giulia Garbagni (King’s College London)

Comments: Professor Shin Kawashima (University of Tokyo)
 

Title: Power, Wealth, and People: Discussions of Demographic Concerns in Japan's Transnational Intellectual Exchange (1870s-1940s)

Presenter: Dr. Mina Marković (Cambridge)

Comments: Professor Shin Kawashima (University of Tokyo)

Title: The Formation and Transformation of ‘Foreign Affairs Work’ (waishi 外事) in PRC China

Presenter: Min Jing (University of Tokyo)

Comments: Dr Xin Fan (Cambridge)
 

Title: Xinjiang Consuls in Soviet Central Asia in the 1920–1930s

Presenter: Kenji Matsuo (University of Tokyo)

Comments: Dr. Thomas P. Barrett (Cambridge)

Title: The 'Asia Problem' in Postwar East Asia: Japan, China, and Taiwan's Negotiation of Postimperial Boundaries

Presenter: Mariah Zhong (Cambridge)

Comments: Professor Shin Kawashima (University of Tokyo)

Funding for this event has been generously provided by the Japan and the World programme at Cambridge.