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From: Christiane Reinhold
reinholdc@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU=20
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=20
her works. _The Sound of the Wind: the life and works of Uno Chiyo_=20
(Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1992) and _The Story of a Single Woman_ (which is=20
a translation of _Aru onna no hanashi_, and is published by Peter Owen,=20
1992). Although I still write on Uno Chiyo and other women writers of=20
her generation, I am currently interested in the emergence of women=20
writers in the Meiji period, particularly in the way they were influenced=20
and directed by male mentors and critics. I hope to turn this study into=20
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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From: Anne Harrington
aharri1@ORION.IT.LUC.EDU =20
I am delighted that there now exists h-japan. My name is Ann Harrington
and I am associate professor of Japanese history at Loyola University,=20
Chicago. My research interests center around Christianity in Japan,=20
Japanese women, and my current research deals with the work of Roman=20
Catholic (Western) sisters in Japan from 1872 to World War II. =20
One question I'd love an answer to concerns paper money issued during the=20
Allied Occupation of Japan. One of my students gave me a whole envelope=20
full of paper money that says "The Japanese Government" on it in English=20
and Japanese, but the denominations are written "Ten Pesos," and "One=20
Centavo." Can anyone explain this to me?
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From: Genzo Yamamoto
genzo@YALE.EDU=20
My name is Genzo Yamamoto, presently a doctoral candidate in Japanese
History at Yale University, currently researching the worldview and
ideology of the Japanese House of Peers in the interwar period in an effort
to understand better the conservative character of the people and the
period.
Genzo Yamamoto
<genzo@yale.edu>
Yale University
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From: Val Hamilton
vrh1@STIR.AC.UK=20
I am part-time Information Officer for Japanese Studies at the University=20
of Stirling Library, Scotland and so have a broad interest in Japanese=20
history.=20
I am also registered as a postgraduate student in the Japanese=20
department here. The subject of my thesis is the development of modern=20
mountaineering in Japan looking particularly at the roles of the British=20
missionary, Rev Walter Weston (the father of Japanese mountaineering!),=20
Shiga Shigetaka, as author of Nihon Fukei Ron (On Japanese landscape,=20
1894) and Kojima Usui, writer and early climber.
In general I have more than enough material: I have a great deal of=20
information on Weston and Shiga and plenty on Kojima=20
in Japanese - does anyone know of anything in English written about him?
Val Hamilton
Information Officer (Japanese Studies)
University of Stirling
Scotland
vrh1@stir.ac.uk
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