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Daqing Yang

Associate Professor of History and International Affairs

Phillips 327
801 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-8262
Fax: (202) 994-6231
E-mail: yanghist@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Harvard University

Expertise:

Modern Japanese history, Sino-Japanese relations, colonialism, memory, reconciliation

Background:

A native of China, Professor Yang graduated from Nanjing University and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He specialized in the history of modern Japan. His research interests include the Japanese empire, technological developments in modern Japan, and the legacies of World War II in East Asia.

In 2004, Dr. Yang was appointed a Historical Consultant to The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group at the U.S. National Archives. In fall 2006, Dr. Yang served as the Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies at Harvard University.

Professor Yang is a founding co-director of the Memory and Reconciliation in the Asia Pacific program based in the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, and is currently working on a new project on postwar China-Japan reconciliation. In 2006, he co-edited two books: Historical Understanding that Transcend National Boundaries, which was published simultaneously in China and Japan; and Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia. His book, Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion, 1895-1945, is forthcoming.

Courses Taught:

Hist 101 World War II in Japanese and American History
Hist 189 History of Modern Japan
Hist 289 Seminar: Modern Japanese History
Hist 297 Research Seminar: Japan and Its World
Hist 297 Research Seminar: The Japanese Empire and Its Legacies
IAff 91 East Asia: Past and Present

Last update: 10.09.07