TAO DEMIN Professor & Director, Institute for Cultural Interaction ...

TAO DEMIN
Professor & Director, Institute for Cultural Interaction Studies
Kansai University (Yamate-cho 3-3-35, Suita-shi, Osaka, JAPAN)
Tel: 81-6-6368-0256 (o); Fax: 81-6-6368-0235 (o) E-Mail:
demintao@hotmail.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Japanese History, Osaka University, Japan, 1991
M.A. in Japanese History, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 1985
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Kansai University, Faculty of Letters, AProfessor, 1999 to the
present
Bridgewater State College (MA, USA), Department of History,
Assistant Professor, 1992-97
Fudan University, Department of History, Lecturer, 1985-1992
FELLOWSHIPS
Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation, Shibusawa Fellow,
2004-2006
Harvard University, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship,
1991-92
Princeton University, Department of East Asian Studies Fellowship,
1990-91
Japanese Ministry of Education Scholarship for Research Student,
1986-89
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
President, Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia
Editorial Advisory Board, Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies,
National Taiwan University, 2006-
Editorial Advisory Board, Japan Review (an English Journal of the
International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto),
2001-2009
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
The Past, Present, and Future of East Asia.: Focusing on Modern
Sino-Japanese Relations (coeditor). Osaka: Kansai University
Press, October 2009.
Sovereignty and Political Thought in East Asia (coeditor).
Shanghai: Fudan University Press, July 2009.
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Naito Konan‟s Collection of Calligraphic and Pictorial Works of
the Late Qing Celebrities. Osaka: Kansai University Press, March
2009.
The Transformation of Public Welfare Thought in East Asia: From
Early Modern to Modern Times (coeditor). Tokyo: Japanese Economic
Thought Press, March 2009.
Business Ethics and Its Practice in Modern East Asia: Centering
on Shibusawa Eiichi and Zhang Jian. (coeditor). Tokyo: Japanese
Economic Thought Press, March 2009.
New Horizons in the Study of Modern Sino-Japanese Relations:
Focusing on Key Persons (coeditor). Tokyo: Yushodo Shuppan,
February 2008.
Meiji Sinologists and China: Diplomatic Policy Suggestions by
Shigeno Yasutsugu, Nishimura Tenshu, and Naito Konan. Osaka:
Kansai University Press, March 2007.
Studies in the History of Japanese Sinological Thought: Ogyu Sorai,
Tominaga Nakamoto, and Modernity. Osaka: Kansai University Press,
March 1999.
A Study of the Kaitokudo Neo-Confucianism. Osaka: Osaka University
Press, March 1994.
BOOK REVIEWS
A review of Tokugawa Confucian Education: The Kangien Academy of
Hirose Tanso by Marleen Kassel, Monumenta Nipponica, 52.2, Summer
1997.
"China's First Dictionary of Japanese History from Fudan
University Press (edited by Wu Jie)," Sino-Japanese Studies, 6.1,
October 1993.
A review of The Cambridge History of Japan (vol. 4, Early Modern
Japan), Monumenta Nipponica, 47.3, Autumn 1992.
TRANSLATIONS
“The Institutions of the Yuan and Yuan Society" (A translation
of "Gen tensho to Gen-dai Chugoku shakai” by Uematsu Tadashi;
cotranslator). The Gest Library Journal, 5.1, Spring 1992.
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A translation of “Chinese Cultural Features Preserved in Japanese
Culture” by Oba Osamu, in A Reevaluation of Traditional Chinese
Cultures. Shanghai: Shanghai People's Press, 1986.
A translation of A Biography of Yoshida Shigeru by Inoki Masamichi
(cotranslator). Shanghai: Shanghai Translation Press, 1985.
MAJOR PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH
“Umeko Tsuda:A Pioneer Girl Student and Woman Educator in Meiji
Japan,”International Symposium on “New Horizons in Islamic Area
Studies: Identities, Coexistence and Globalization,” Cairo
University, December 13, 2009
“Abraham Lincoln‟s Impact on East Asia: A Preliminary Historical
Review,” International Symposium on Global Lincoln, Oxford
University, July 4, 2009
“Pan-Asianism in Prewar Japan: The Case of Naito Konan and the
Eastern Cultural League,” The Edwin . Reischauer Center for East
Asian Studies, Junes Hopkins University SAIS, February 11, 2009
“Yoshida Shoin, Inoue Tetsujiro, and Naito Konan: Rediscovering
Modern Japan‟s Attitude Toward America, Germany, and China through
Inter-personal Relations,” East Asian Department, Princeton
University, February 4, 2009
“Petition, Marginal Comments, and Written Conversation:
Rediscovering Modern Japan's Foreign Relations through Original
Documents,” 韓国首爾大学(漢城大学)人文学研究院 HK 文明研究事業団〈第 1
回 HK 国内外著名学者招請講演会〉、July 17, 2008
“Japan-American Rivalry in Early Republican China: An Examination
of Naito Konan‟ Shinaron (1914) and Shin Shinaron (1924),”
Fairbank Center Special Seminar, Harvard University, May 23, 2008
“Yoshida Shoin‟s Encounter with Commodore Perry: A Review of
Cultural Interaction in the Days of Japan‟s Opening,” Institute
of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, March 4, 2008
“The Charitable Man from Afar: A Reappraisal of S. W. Williams‟
(1812-1884) Involvements in the Mid-19 th Century East Asia.”
Conference on “Trans-Pacific Relations: The United States and East
Asia in the 19 th and Early 20 th Centuries.” Princeton University,
September 8, 2006.
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“The Japanese Responses to the May Fourth Literary Revolution:
Yoshino Sakuzo, Aoki Masaru, and the Taisho Liberalism,” East
Asian Studies Lecture, Princeton University, November 14; Japan
Forum, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies,
Harvard University, October 26, 2001.
“Chinese Canonical Scriptures in a Critical Japanese Perspective:
Tominaga Nakamoto (1715-46) and Modern Kyoto Sinology,”
International Conference on the History of Chinese Hermeneutics
at Rutgers University, October 6, 2001.
“The „Confucian Mother Land‟ as Seen by Meiji Sinologists: Three
Travelogues,” Sinology Seminar, University of Heidelberg, June
18, 2001.
“The Chinese Translator Lo Sen and Commodore Perry‟s Mission to
Japan,” East Asian Studies Seminar, University of Gottingen, June
13, 2001.
“Moral Indoctrination in Early Modern and Modern Japan: The Six
Maxims and the Imperial Rescript on Education,” Sinology Seminar,
University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, May 9, 2001.
“Japanese Sinologists‟ Views of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945
during the Wartime,” Asian Studies Seminar, University of
Copenhagen, May 4, 2001.
“Chinese as a Medium in Early U.S.-Japan Interchanges: Lo Sen‟s
Journal of Perry‟s 1854 Visit to Japan,” Conference on Japanese
Historiography held by Center for Japanese Studies of University
of Hawai‟i, November 11, 2000.
"Changing Chinese Attitudes toward the Study of Japan: A
Historical Perspective," Evening Seminar, The International
Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, February 10, 2000.
"National Identity Crises and Their Official Solutions : A
Preliminary Comparison of Meiji Japan and Late Qing China," The
Third International Conference on Comparative Philosophy held at
the University of Hawai‟i, January 8, 1998.
“Japan‟s War in China: Perspectives of Leading Japanese
Sinologists,” Symposium on the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 held
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y the Society for the Study of Twentieth-Century China in
Vencouver, December 20, 1995.
"Changing Japanese Relations with Asia: An Historical
Perspective," Bridgewater Symposia, November 21, 1994.
"The Influence of Sorai in Meiji Japan: Shigeno Yasutsugu as an
Advocate of Practical Sinology," Meiji Studies Conference
sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard
University, May 7, 1994.
"Some Reflections on Marius Jansen's China in the Tokugawa World,"
Round Table on "China in Japanese Eyes: Marius Jansen's History
of an Ambivalent Relationship" at the 46th Annual Meeting of the
Association for Asian Studies, Boston, March 26, 1994.
"Sorai's New Look," Symposium on "Pre-Modern and Modern Japan"
in Honor of Professor Marius Jansen's Retirement, Princeton
University, May 15, 1992.
"Confucianism and the Emperor: Some Reflections on the Rokko
Series," Round Table on "A Sinocentric View of Japanese History?
The New 13-Volume History of Japan Published by Rokko shuppan"
at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies,
Washington, D.C., April 5, 1992.
"Same Texts, Different Contexts: Japanese Uses of the K'ang-hsi
Emperor's Teachings, 1721-1943," Reischauer Institute of
Japanese Studies, Harvard University, February 14, 1992.
"Neo-Confucianism in Eighteenth-Century Osaka: Goi Ranshu and the
Kaitokudo Scholarly Tradition," Program in East Asian Studies,
Princeton University, May 14; Center for East Asian Studies, The
University of Chicago, May 17, 1991
"Recent Scholarship on Japanese History in the P.R.C.," Centers
/Institutes forEast Asian / Japanese Studies at U.C. Berkeley
(September 12), Chicago (September 15), Illinois (September 22),
Cornell (September 26), Princeton(September 29), Columbia
(October 4), and Harvard (October 7), 1988.
"Tominaga Nakamoto's Application of Sinological Knowledge in His
Study of Buddhism," The 33 rd International Conference of Oriental
Scholars in Japan, Tokyo, May 1, 1988.
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