Barak Kushner
Professor of East Asian History at the University of Cambridge
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Barak Kushner's Degrees
- PhD History University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Barak Kushner is an American historian, orientalist, and translator. He is a Professor of East Asian History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He has written and edited numerous books and articles and has spoken on a range of East Asian history topics including Japanese imperial propaganda, the Japanese empire in East Asia, Japanese war crimes, and justice in East Asia. He has also written on other subjects, ranging from Godzilla and Japanese humor to ramen and the Chinese influence on early twentieth century notions of modern cuisine in Japan. Kushner is married to Mami Mizutori Assistant Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction . He speaks and reads Chinese, English, French, Japanese.
Barak Kushner's Published Works
Published Works
- The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda (2005) (83)
- Slurp! a Social and Culinary History of Ramen - Japan's Favorite Noodle Soup (2012) (25)
- Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice (2015) (19)
- Nationality and Nostalgia: The Manipulation of Memory in Japan, Taiwan, and China since 1990 (2007) (15)
- Examining Japan's lost decades (2015) (15)
- Pawns of Empire: Postwar Taiwan, Japan and the Dilemma of War Crimes (2010) (10)
- Gojira as Japan’s First Postwar Media Event (2006) (8)
- Ghosts of the Japanese Imperial Army: The ‘White Group’ (Baituan) and Early Post-war Sino-Japanese Relations (2013) (8)
- Sweetness and Empire: Sugar Consumption in Imperial Japan (2012) (7)
- The dismantling of Japan's empire in East Asia : deimperialization, postwar legitimation and imperial afterlife (2017) (6)
- Cannibalizing Japanese Media: The Case of Issei Sagawa (1997) (4)
- The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP: Political Party Organizations as Historical Institutions (2013) (2)
- Laughter as Matériel: The Mobilization of Comedy in Japan's Fifteen-Year War (2004) (2)
- Sweetness and Empire (2011) (2)
- Treacherous Allies: The Cold War in East Asia and American Postwar Anxiety (2010) (2)
- Going for the Gold: Health and Sports in Japan’s Quest for Modernity (2011) (2)
- Public Opinion, Propaganda, Ideology: Theories on the Press and Its Social Function in Interwar Japan, 1918–1937 by Fabian Schäfer (review) (2014) (2)
- Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War Two (2014) (1)
- Media, propaganda and politics in 20th-century Japan (2015) (1)
- Digesting Postwar Japanese Media (2005) (1)
- A Review of “Planning for Empire” (2013) (0)
- Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature (review) (2011) (0)
- Early Modern Noodles and the Myth of Ramen (2012) (0)
- Kabuki's Forgotten War: 1931–1945 . By James R. Brandon. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. xiii, 465 pp. $54.00 (cloth). (2013) (0)
- Eri Hotta. Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy. (2014) (0)
- Empire’s Little Helpers: Juvenile Delinquents and the State in East Asia, 1880–;1945 (2014) (0)
- 1. Defeat in Denial: The Regional Impact of Japan’s Surrender (2015) (0)
- 6. An Unsatisfying Peace: Shifting Attitudes on War Crimes (2015) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (1995) (0)
- International Japan, Foreign Foods and Isolation (2012) (0)
- Sandra Collins, The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics (2012) (0)
- Coming Out Under Fire (1994) (review) (2008) (0)
- 處理戰後的勝利:國民黨, 日本與共產黨對於爭議的立場 (2018) (0)
- 7. Socialist Magnanimity: The CCP Trials (2015) (0)
- Japan’s war of words (2017) (0)
- The Real Manchurian Candidates: Chinese war criminals in the postwar, prisoners of history (2022) (0)
- The Meiji Restoration: Menu Renovation on the Road to Ramen (2012) (0)
- 3. Flexible Imperial Identity: Administering Postwar Legal Guilt (2015) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2006) (0)
- Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers (review) (2007) (0)
- Empireâs Little Helpers (2014) (0)
- 5. Taiwan: Political Expediency and Japanese Imperial Assistance (2015) (0)
- Diplomacy and the Desire to Impress (2012) (0)
- Book reviews (2010) (0)
- History at the Dining Table: Postwar Instant Ramen (2012) (0)
- Three Sages Walk into a Restaurant and … Noodles (2012) (0)
- 2. Devil in the Details: Chinese Policies on Japan’s War Crimes (2015) (0)
- Imperial loss and Japan’s search for postwar legitimacy (2016) (0)
- Heroes, victims and the quest for peace (2016) (0)
- The Question of Complicity: Japan’s Early Postures toward War Crimes and War Responsibility in the Aftermath of the Second World War (2017) (0)
- The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War by Jeremy A. Yellen (review) (2021) (0)
- 合法性と帝国ーー台湾を事例とした日中関係における”正義”をめぐる戦い (2017) (0)
- 4. Chinese Nationalist Justice: The KMT Trials (2015) (0)
- Empire and Japanese Cuisine (2012) (0)
- Certain Victory: Images of World War II in the Japanese Media (review) (2009) (0)
- Daqing Yang. Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883–1945. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, number 219.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center. 2010. Pp. xvii, 446. $49.95 (2012) (0)
- Introduction: (2020) (0)
- Overcoming Empire In Post-Imperial East Asia (2019) (0)
- Divergent Memories: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War by Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel Sneider (review) (2021) (0)
- Robert Hoppens.The China Problem in Postwar Japan: Japanese National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations. (2016) (0)
- Introduction: The Search for Meaning in Defeat and Victory (2020) (0)
- Court Food versus Common Food (2012) (0)
- World War II Cuisine: A World Adrift (2012) (0)
- Ramen Popular Culture (2012) (0)
- Introduction – The Temple of Noodledom (2012) (0)
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