Fei Chen

International Studies Assistant Professor

Biography

Fei Chen is a historian specializing in the Sino-Japanese cultural exchange. He obtains a master degree from University of Oxford and a Ph.D from University of Tokyo. Before coming to Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, he taught at Shanghai Normal University and was a visiting scholar at Harvard-Yenching Institute and University of Tokyo. His research explores the transnational production of modern knowledge in East Asia and the rise of imperialism in East Asia. He is the co-editor of Alternative Representation of the Past: The Politics of History in Modern China (2020). He won the 2020 Wang Gungwu Prize for his article “Transforming an Imperial Frontier: Japanese Knowledge and the Qing Empire’s New Tibet Policy”.

Research Interests

transnational history, imperialism of knowledge, nationalism

Final Education

Ph.D., The University of Tokyo

Awards & Honours

(2021) Wang Gungwu Prize. Asian Studies Association of Australia

Academic Papers

Fei Chen (2023) Translating and transplanting revolution: the circulation of discourses on the American Revolution between China and Japan. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Online First) :1474-0591
Fei Chen (2020) Buddhisizing the World: Global Imperialism and Kawaguchi Ekai’s Travels in Tibet. Journal of Asian History 54 (1) :0021910X
Fei Chen (2020) Transforming an Imperial Frontier: Japanese Knowledge and the Qing Empire’s New Tibet Policy. Asian Studies Review 44 (3) :1467-8403
Fei Chen (2019) Rediscovering Yellow River and Yangtze River: Circulation of Discourses of the North-South Dichotomy between China and Japan, 1895–1911. International Journal of Asian Studies 16 (1) :1479-5922

Book & Case Publishing

Fei Chen; Ying-kit Chan (2020) Alternative Representations of the Past: The Politics of History in Modern China. De Gruyter Oldenbourg