Daqing Yang
Daqing Yang
Associate Professor of History and International Affairs; Associate Director of B.A./B.S. in International Affairs
Full-time Faculty
Contact:
1957 E St. NW, Office #503H
Washington, D.C. 20052
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. He is the author of Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883-1945. He co-edited the following books: Memory, Identity, and Commemorations of World War II: Anniversary Politics in Asia Pacific; Toward a History Beyond Borders: Contentious Issues in Sino-Japanese Relations, which was also published simultaneously in China and Japan; Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia; and Communications Under the Seas: The Evolving Cable Network and Its Implications.
Modern Japanese history, Sino-Japanese relations, colonialism, memory, reconciliation
Ph.D., Harvard University
HIST 3001 Special Topics
- World War II in Asia and the Pacific
HIST 3621 History of Modern Japan
HIST 6001 Special Topics Seminar
- Japan and Its World
- The Japanese Empire and Its Legacies
- History, Memory, and Violence in Modern Asia
HIST 6030 Issues of History in International Affairs
HIST 6621 Seminar: Modern Japanese History
Memory, Identity, and Commemorations of World War II: Anniversary Politics in Asia Pacific, co-edited with Mike Mochizuki, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018.
Toward a History Beyond Borders: Contentious Issues in Sino-Japanese Relations, co-edited with Jie Liu, Hiroshi Mitani and Andrew Gordon. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion, 1883-1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War: Narratives from Europe and East Asia, co-edited with Andrea Wirsching et. al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia, co-edited with Gi-Wook Shin and Soon-Won Park. New York: Routledge, 2006.
"Convergence or Divergence? Recent Historical Writings on the Rape of Nanjing." The American Historical Review 104, no. 3 (June 1999): 842-865.