MEARC Research Projects
The VICI project, a major award from the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) provides the institutional and disciplinary genesis of MEARC. It was awarded in 2003 to Professor Axel Schneider and Professor Rikki Kersten for their research project "Historical Consciousness and the Future of Modern Japan and China."
In 2008, Professor Chris Goto-Jones, co-director of MEARC and Asiascape.net, a
major research award of 1.25 million euro to run a five year project entitled "Beyond Utopia - New Politics, the Politics of
Knowledge and the Science Fictional Field of Japan".
With the 2003 VICI project as its basis, MEARC has developed a series of related research projects, and it aims to build further research directions in the general areas of the Ideas and Institutions of Modern East Asia. For an overview and more detailed accounts of current and past research activities, please visit:
Current Research Projects
MEARC:
Prof. Chris Goto-Jones (MEARC Director)
Philosophical Escapology: Revisiting the Concept of ‘Penitence’ in Postwar Japan
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Dr. Yih-jye Hwang (Receiver of the Writing Up Grant)
The Birth of the 'Taiwanese': A Discursive Constitution of the 'Taiwanese' as a National Identity
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VICI:
Professor Goto-Jones (VICI principal researcher, MEARC co-director and director of asiascape.net)
Beyond Utopia - New Politics, the Politics of
Knowledge and the Science Fictional Field of Japan
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Chiara Brivio (VICI Phd. Candidate)
Miki Kiyoshi and Watsuji Tetsuro’s Concept of the ‘Human Being’ in the Interwar and Postwar Period (1920s-1950s)
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Els van Dongen (VICI Phd. Candidate)
Rejecting Radicalism: The Revaluation of Modern Chinese Intellectual History during the 1990s
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Prof. Rikki Kersten (VICI principal researcher and MEARC founding fellow)
Revisionism in Transwar Japan 1940s Present
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Prof. Axel Schneider (VICI principal researcher and MEARC co-director)
Conservatism in Early 20th Century China
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Torsten Weber (VICI Phd. Candidate)
Being ‘Asian’: China in Japanese Discourse on ‘the East’ and its Significance in Japan’s Collective Identity Formation, 1910-1949
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Past Research Projects
MEARC:
Dr. Curtis A. Gayle (Post Doc)
Unbinding Histories: The Emergence of Local Women's History in Early Postwar Japan
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Dr. Tze-ki Hon (Visiting Fellow)
Revolution as Restoration: Guocui xuebao and the Chinese Nationalist Modernity
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Dr. Ya-pei Kuo (Post Doc)
Identity, History, and Politics - The Critical Review (1922-33) and the Cultural Debate in the Early Twentieth-Century China & Creating Modern Education in Late Qing China: Idea, Institution, and Politics, 1901-1911
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Dr. Viren Murthy (MEARC writing up grantee - and Assistant Professor of History, Ottawa University)
The Myriad Things Stem From Confusion: Onthology, Nationalism and Resistance in the Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan
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Dr. K. Paramore (Writing up grant)
Tokugawa Sectarianism and Modern Ideology: A New History of Japanese anti-Christian Discourse
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VICI:
Dr. Lewis Mayo (VICI Post Doc Researcher)
Dunhuang and Historical Sense in “Modern” Eurasia
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Dr. Christian Uhl (VICI Post Doc Researcher)
What was the Japanese Philosophy of History? Reconstructing the “World-Historical Standpoint” of the Kyoto School
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