Daqing Yang
Daqing Yang
Associate Professor
Modern Japan
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A historian of modern Japan, Daqing Yang has research interests in the following three areas: the technological construction of the Japanese empire; the history and memory of World War II; and Japan's relationship with Asia in the postwar period. 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. He has served as the Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies at Harvard University, and also taught at University of Tokyo, Waseda University (Japan) and Yonsei University (Korea). The founding co-director of the Memory and Reconciliation in the Asia Pacific program based at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, he is currently working on historians and reconciliation in postwar Europe and East Asia as well as energy resources in the Japanese empire. Dr. Yang is the author of Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion, 1883-1945, and has co-edited several books.
- Modern East Asia
- Imperialism and Colonialism
- Military History
- Science and Technology
- HIST 3601: World War II in Asia
- HIST 3621: History of Modern Japan
- HIST 6030 Issues of History in International Affairs
- HIST 6625: Japan's Empire and Its Legacies
“Invisible Infrastructure: Radio Waves and Material Knowledge in Early Twentieth Century Japan,” Technology and Culture 66, no. 3 (2025): 827–855.
Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War: Narratives from Europe and East Asia, co-edited with Randall Hansen et. al., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021.
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.
English translation of Historical Understandings that Transcend National Boundaries. Tokyo: Tokyo University Press, 2006; Beijing: Social Science Academic Press, 2006.
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.
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1996