Two member introductions:
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From: Christiane Reinhold
reinholdc@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU
Dear H-Japan colleagues
I am a new member and I would like to introduce myself. My name is
Christiane Reinhold. I am originally from Germany where I got my Master's
degree in Chinese history (The Labor Service System in Song China).
Currently, I am working on my Ph.D. thesis at the University of Texas at
Austin with Dr. Ed Rhoads. My field is actually modern Chinese history, but
my dissertation project is spanning both China and Japan. In the widest
sense, I am trying to trace the emergence of modern Japanology in late Qing
and Republican China, emphasizing the Japan discourse in the 1920s to 1940s.
To that end, I am examining the "output" produced by the Chinese academia ,
government (both Guomindang and Communist Party), and mass media. I am
especially interested in how Chinese tried to explain Japanese imperialism
and with it the specific ideology that fed Japanese aggression. I am aware
that there is a tremendous corpus of secondary literature already exisiting
in Japan ( I guess, I only scratched the surface so far) =8B I would be
delighted to hear your comments and suggestions!
Christiane Reinhold
The University of Texas at Austin
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From: Rebecca Copeland
copeland@artsci.wustl.edu
My name is Rebecca Copeland and I'm an Assistant Professor of Japanese=20
Language and Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. I have=20
written on the author Uno Chiyo (b. 1897) and have translated several of her
works. _The Sound of the Wind: the life and works of Uno Chiyo_ (Univ. of
Hawaii Press, 1992) and _The Story of a Single Woman_ (which is a
translation of _Aru onna no hanashi_, and is published by Peter Owen,
1992). Although I still write on Uno Chiyo and other women writers of her
generation, I am currently interested in the emergence of women writers in
the Meiji period, particularly in the way they were influenced and directed
by male mentors and critics. I hope to turn this study into a book,=
eventually.
I look forward to participating in the discussions on this list and to=20
hearing from others with interests in Meiji-era women's issues.
Rebecca Copeland
Department of Asian and Near Eastern Langs & Lits
Washington University in St. Louis
copeland@artsci.wustl.edu
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