SHIMAZU Naoko

I am a historian whose work has strong interdisciplinary foundations. My interest is to explore how history and historical methods can ‘converse’ meaningfully, not only with cognate disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, but with sciences, engineering, medicine, and creative arts. We need to go out of our comfort zones to engage with new thinking and, moreover, to engender new conversations through radical interdisciplinarity. ‘Knowledge and Practice’ is a basic framework through which to explore how we create knowledge and how we communicate our practice of creating that knowledge to others.

Publications (select)

Books:

Cold War Asia: A Visual History of Global Diplomacy (edited with Matthew Phillips, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023). Editor and author.

Oxford Handbook on the Cultural History of Global Diplomacy, c.1750-2000 (Editor with Christian Goeschel, contracted, forthcoming 2024). Editor and author.

The Russian Revolution in Asia: From Baku to Batavia (edited with Sabine Dullin, Etienne Forestier-Peyrat, Yuexin Rachel Lin), (London: Routledge, 2022). Editor and co-author.

Postcard Impressions from Early 20^th Century Singapore: Perspective from the Japanese Community, co-authored with Regina Hong and Ling Xi Min (Singapore: National Library Board, 2020). Co-author.

Imagining Japan in Postwar East Asia: Identity Politics, Schooling and Popular Culture (edited with Paul Morris and Edward Vickers), (London: Routledge, 2013). Editor and author.

 Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory, and the Russo-Japanese War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). Single-authored.

 Nationalisms in Japan (editor) (London: Routledge, 2006). Editor and author.

 Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919 (London: Routledge, 1998). Single-authored.

Articles and Book Chapters (select):

‘Epilogue: Afro-Asianism Revisited’, in Su Lin Lewis and C.M. Stolte eds., The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism (Leiden: Brill, 2022), pp. 327-331.

‘Globalising Captivity: “Little Germany in China” in Japan’, in Rotem Kowner and Iris Rachamimov, eds., OUT OF LINE, OUT OF PLACE: A Global and Local History of World War I Internments (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022), pp. 181-201.

‘Theorising from the Belt and Road Initiative’ (co-authored with Shaun Lin and James D. Sidaway), Asia Pacific Viewpoint (26 October 2021), https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12322

‘A Historiographical Turn: Evolving Interpretations of Japan during World War I’ (co-authored with Jan Schmidt), in Christoph Cornelissen and Arndt Weinrich, eds., Writing the Great War: The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present (Oxford: Berghahn, 2020), pp. 338-367.

‘Publicizing Colonies: Representations of “Korea” and “Koreans” in NIPPON’, Yong Chool Ha, ed., International Impact on Colonial Rule in Korea (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019), pp. 236-260.

‘What is Sociability in Diplomacy?’, Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society 1 (April 2019), 56-72. https://doi.org/10.1163/25891774-00101009

‘A Cultural History of Diplomacy: Reassessing the Japanese “Performance” at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919’, in Urs Matthias Zachmann, ed., After Versailles: Asian Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Interwar Order, 1919-1933 (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2017), pp. 101-123.

‘Performing “Freedom”: The Bandung Conference as Symbolic Post-Colonial Diplomacy’, in J. Dittmer and F. McConnell, eds., Diplomatic Cultures: Translations, Spaces, and Alternatives (London: Routledge, 2016), pp. 59-76.

‘Women “Performing” Diplomacy at the Bandung Conference of 1955’, in Darwis Khudori, ed., Bandung at 60: New Insights and Emerging Forces (Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar, 2015; Delhi: Aakar Books, 2016), pp. 34-49.

‘Diplomacy as Theatre: Staging the Bandung Conference of 1955’, Modern Asian Studies, (published online July 22, 2013), 1-28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X13000371; in print, 48:1 (January 2014), 225-252.

‘The Mentality of the Japanese Conscript and Manchuria as “Lieu de Mémoire”’, Francia: Research on Western European History, 40 (2013), 429-443.

‘Places in Diplomacy’, Guest Editorial, Political Geography, 31: 6 (2012), 335-336.

‘Patriotic and Despondent: Japanese Society at War, 1904-5’, Russian Review, 67:1 (January 2008), 34-49. (Special Issue)

‘Colonial Encounters: Japanese Travel Writing on Colonial Taiwan’, in Yuko Kikuchi, ed., Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007), 21-37.

              -Nominated for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award 2009.

‘Jinshu sabetsu teppai an: Pari kōwa gaikō no hitomaku,’ [The Racial Equality Proposal: One Act from the Paris Peace Diplomacy] in M. Kobayashi, ed., Kensei no seijigaku: Banno Junji kinen ronbunshū [Political Study of Constitutionalism: Commemorative Collected Essays for Banno Junji] (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2006), 149-170.

‘”Love thine Enemy”: Japanese Perceptions of Russia’, in J.W. Steinberg, B.W. Menning, D. Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, D. Wolff, and S. Yokote, eds., The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2005), 365-384.

              -Translated into Russian as an abridged version, <Vozliubi vraga Svoego>, Rodina (2005.10), 69-71.

‘The Making of a Heroic War Myth in the Russo-Japanese War’, Waseda Journal of Asian Studies 25 (2004), 83-96.

‘Popular Representations of the Past: The Case of Postwar Japan’, Journal of Contemporary History 38:1 (January 2003), 101-116.

‘The Myth of the Patriotic Soldier: Japanese Attitudes towards Death in the Russo-Japanese War’, War and Society 19:2 (October 2001), 69-89.

‘Reflections on the History of Japanese Diplomacy’, Diplomacy and Statecraft 10:1 (March 1999), 240-251.

‘The Japanese Attempt to Secure Racial Equality in 1919’, Japan Forum 1:1 (April 1989), 93-100.