A lecture presented by the
2016 Robert C. Staley Distinguished Visiting Professor in East Asian Studies
Andrew Gordon
The Afterlife of Empire: The
Politics of Memory in East Asia
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University
4:30 – 6:00 pm | Thursday, January 21, 2016
University Club Heritage Room | ASU Tempe
Andrew Gordon is the Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor
of History at Harvard University. He is a leading historian of
labor and the Japanese economy, subjects he approaches
engagingly by focusing on specific consumer items and
companies. He writes through the lens of social history, rather
than only through numbers
and statistics. He also writes
more generally about Japan
and has authored the leading
textbook on modern Japanese
history, A Modern History of
Japan. Professor Gordon has
even published on Japanese
baseball players in the US.
His new project is a history of
Japan’s lost decades, the twenty
year recession that Japan is still
struggling to overcome.
A Special Thanks:
The School of International Letters & Cultures is grateful to
Robert C. Staley, B.A. Asian Studies, Monmouth College, for
his generous support of this lecture and visiting professorship
at Arizona State University.
Past Robert C. Staley Distinguished Visiting
Professors in East Asian Studies
2015 Michel Hockx, University of London, Internet Literature in China
2014 Nicola Di Cosmo, Princeton University, Climate Change and the Rise of the Mongols: New Answers to Old Problem
2013 D
avid R. McCann, Harvard University,
Particle or Wave: Korean Poetry in Global
Circulations
2012 M
ark Sidel, University of Wisconsin,
Negotiating the Nimble Leninist State: Vietnam
and China’s Fragile Nongovernmental
Organizations and the Governments They
Face
2011 Elizabeth Berry, UC Berkeley, The Virtue of
Wealth and the Ethics of Consumption in the
Age of the Tokugawa Shogun
2009 J ohn Duncan, UCLA, History Wars in East
Asia: The Politics of the Past
2008 P
eter Perdue, Harvard University, China and
Other Colonial Empires
2007 Richard Baum, UCLA, China: The Limits of
Authoritarian Resilience
2005 B
ruce Cumings, University of Chicago, North
Korea in the “Axis of Evil”
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Reception to follow the lecture.
2004 J ohn Dower, MIT, Facing ‘East,’ Facing ‘West’:
Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Visitor parking is available in the University Club
and the Fulton Center parking lots.
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