Author, Researcher and Lecturer with a Passion for History, Music and Japan
From the “PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION” of History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan: The World, the Nation and the Search for a Modern Past (pp. ix–xi; footnotes omited) ‘Historians place the highest value on monographic research, based on the archives.’ ‘We historians, I often think, tend to stop…
The December 2013 issue (Vol.10.2) of Nineteenth-Century Music Review is devoted to music in Japan. I guest edited it and wrote the introduction (pp. 211-22). It contains four articles (pp. 223-321), published for the first time: Yasuko Tsukahara (Professor of Japanese Music History at Tokyo University of the Arts): “State…
Well, sort of. I found out that my book Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan has apparently been pirated by a Russian hacker. Not sure whether to feel flattered that someone found it worthwhile to steal what is after all a fairly specialized academic study, or angry, because…