Ethan Mark, Ph.D.
University Lecturer, Modern Japanese History
Department of Japanese and Korean Studies, Leiden University
Arsenaalstraat 1, PO Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
Tel.: +31-(0)71-5272310, Fax: +31-(0)71-5272526
E-Mail: e.mark@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Publications and Research
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Publications and Research
The Limits of Liberation: Negotiating a New Asian Order in Occupied Java, 1942-1945, forthcoming
“‘Asia’’s Trans-War Lineage: Nationalism, Marxism, and ‘Greater Asia’ in an Indonesian Inflection,” Journal of Asian Studies 65:3 (August 2006)
“Introduction: Nations in the Looking Glass: The War in Changing Retrospect, 1945-2005,” pp. 1,4,5 and “Connecting the Experiences of the Sino-Japanese and Asia-Pacific Wars,” p. 21, in IIAS Newsletter Special Issue: The Asia-Pacific War 60 Years On, 38 (Autumn 2005) (Guest Editor)
Appealing to Asia: Nation, Culture, and the Problem of Imperial Modernity in Japanese-occupied Java, Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, New York, May 2003
“Suharto’s New Order Remembers Japan’s New Order” and “Greater East Asia Revisited” in Remco Raben, Editor, Representing the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle (Netherlands), 1999, pp. 72-84, 141-42 (Review: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 33:3 {October 2002}, pp. 576-577)
“Conflicts of Interest: Sukarno's Guided Economy, 1957-65,” Journal of Southeast Asia Business, Vol. 8 No. 1 (Winter 1992), pp. 59-72.
“The Correcting Elite: Journalists and Their Ethos in Modern Japan,” M.A. Thesis, Columbia University, 1991
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Yoshimi Yoshiaki, Grass-Roots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People, forthcoming, including translator’s introduction (English translation of Yoshimi Yoshiaki, Kusa no ne no fashizumu: Nihon minshû no sensô taiken, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1987)
Gotô Ken’ichi, Returning to Asia: Japan-Indonesia Relations, 1930-1942, Tokyo: Ryukei Shosha, 1997, (English translation of Gotô Ken’ichi, Shôwa-ki Nihon to Indoneshia: 1930 nendai ‘nanshin’ no ronri/‘Nihonkan’ no keifu, Tokyo: Keisô shobô, 1986), Chapters 8-11 (pp. 300-360).
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“A New Verdict on the Tokyo War Crimes Trials,” Chronicle of Higher Education May 1st, 2001 (on Timothy Maga, Judgment at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trials, Toronto: Scholarly Book Services, 2002), full text appearing at http://chronicle.com/colloquy/2001/tokyo/07.htm
Review of Takashi Shiraishi, Editor, Approaching Suharto’s Indonesia From the Margins, Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 1994, in Bijdragen tot de Taal, Land, en Volkenkunde, 156-1 (Spring 2000)
Anonymous reviewer for the Journal of Asian Studies (beginning 2003) and the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (beginning 2002)
Review Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire: Unknown Histories, edited by Paul Kratoska, New York: ME Sharpe, 2005, in PacificAffairs, 79(3) (Autumn 2006), 541-542
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“State of the Field Master’s Seminar: Issues in the History and Historiography of Modern Japan,” Leiden University, Sep.–Dec. 2006
“Japan and the World: An Introduction to Japan’s Postwar Foreign Relations,” Leiden University, Feb-May 2006 (required course, 2nd year bachelor’s)
“Japan’s Modern Empire,” Leiden University, Sept-Dec 2005, Feb-May 2003
“Japanese Fascism Part Two: Working With Japanese Texts,” Jan-May 2007, Feb-May 2005
“Japanese Fascism Part One: Exploring Society, Politics, and Culture in Wartime Japan,” Sept. –Dec 2006, Sept-Dec 2004
Guest Lecturer, Southeast Asian Politics, Columbia University, Spring and Fall 1994
Teaching Assistant, Japanese History, Columbia University, Fall 1992
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