KAWASHIMA Shin

Visiting Fellow
Research field / main research area
Chinese/Taiwanese diplomatic history, International relations in East Asia
KAWASHIMA Shin
Research field / main research area
Chinese/Taiwanese diplomatic history, International relations in East Asia
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Educational Background

Ph.D.in Literature from Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, the University of Tokyo in 2000

Career Background

Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, April 2015-present
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, October 2006-March 2015
Associate Professor, the Faculty of Law, Hokkaido University, March 1998-September 2006

Major Publications

・Knowledge Production in Cold War Asia: Us Hegemony and Local Agency, Indiana University Press, 2025(co-edited & authored)
Masayoshi Ōhira’s Diplomacy toward China and East Asia: From Economics to the Concept of a Pacific Basin Community (edited, PHP Editors Group, 2024)
Japan-China Relations, 2001-2022 (co-authored, University of Tokyo Press, 2023)
Xi Jinping’s China (co-authored, University of Tokyo Press, 2022)
・Current research on the Sino‐Japanese War (co-authored, University of Tokyo Press, 2022)

War in Ukraine and its global consequences (co-authored, University of Tokyo Press, 2022)
Emerging countries after Covid-19 (coauthored, University of Tokyo Press, 2021)
20th century East Asia : a new history (coauthored, University of Tokyo Press, 2020),
Frontier of China, Iwanami Shoten, 2017
・Ryosei Kokubun, Yoshihide Soeya, Akio Takahara, Shin Kawashima, Translated by Keith Krulak, Japan–China Relations in the Modern Era, Routledge, 2017
China in the 21st Century, Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2016
China Risk, Iwanami Shoten, 2015
International Politics surrounding Modern China, Chuokoron Shinsha, 2014
Groping for A Modern State: 1894-1925, Iwanami Shoten, 2010
Formation of Chinese Modern Diplomacy, Nagoya University Press, 2004

, among others

Affiliations

Japan Association for Asian Studies (current president), Japan Association for Modern China Studies, Japanese Association of Modern East Asian History (current vice-president), Association for Studies of Chinese Society and Culture, Japan Association for Taiwan Studies, Japan Association of International Relation, and so on.

Others

Foreign Minister’s Commendation for FY 2023
(Contribution to the Promotion of Japanese Studies in China and Taiwan)
His first book, the Formation of Chinese Modern Diplomacy (Nagoya University Press, 2004), was awarded the Suntory Academic Prize in 2004.