Tuesday, Feb 09, 2010

New Perspectives on Japan, China, and Manchuria: In conversation with three scholarly writers from Japan Japan Institute (the Australian National University) and Asia Bookroom are jointly organising an evening event with prominent scholar writers working on histories of North East Asia (Japan, China, and Manchuria). Their research questions our stereotypical understanding about the region. Listening to their casual chat about their research and joining them in conversation will help us to imagine the region differently. The organisers are thankful to the Japan Foundation for its generous support. Speakers: Yoshiki ENATSU: Professor of Chinese Economic History and former Economics Faculty Dean at Hitotsubashi Univ. Tokyo. He is also currently a visiting professor at the Australian National University. His main research field is late Qing Chinese history. His latest research project is on the wool trade among Japan, Australia, and China. He is also the author of Banner Legacy: The Rise of the Fengtian Local Elite at the End of the Qing (University of Michigan Press, 2004). Hideo KOBAYASHI: Professor of Asian Economy at Waseda Univ. Tokyo. He is visiting the Australian National University with funding by the Ministry of Education, Japan. His latest project examines Imperial Japan and North East Asia by using newly discovered documents on security issues. Along with his numerous works in Japanese, he has also contributed a chapter to "The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1941-1945" (Princeton University Press, 1996). Mariko TAMANOI: Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles. She has just published a new book which approaches Manchurian history from a new perspective, memory of people. (Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan, University of Hawaii, 2009.). She has been invited to participate in the Japan Graduate Summer School (Asia Pacific Week 2010) at the Australian National University with Japan Foundation funding. Inquiries: Books@AsiaBookroom.com or to yasuko.kobayashi@anu.edu.au or masato.karashima@anu.edu.au RSVP: by February 8 (Monday) to Asia Bookroom 62515191 or Books@AsiaBookroom.com Admission by gold coin donation to NTA East Indonesia Aid.