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Christian Hess

ヘス クリスチャン | Christian Hess
Affiliation and department：
Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts

About Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts


Job title： Professor
Research field  (1)： History - Asia/Africa
Research keywords  (6)： Modern Chinese History ,  Sino-Japanese Relations ,  Urban history ,  colonialism ,  Food History ,  Transportation History
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (5)：
  • 2023 - 2023 Sophia Food Studies: Mobilities, Sustainability and Ethics
  • 2018 - 2022 Global Japanese Cuisine Project: Culinary Mobilities and Urban Place Making
  • 2018 - A History of Sophia University
  • 2016 - 2018 Culinary Globalization from Below: Historical and Sociological Approaches to the Japanese Food Boom in China and the USA
  • 2010 - 2012 East Asian Cities and Globalization
Papers (9)：
  • Lenka Vyletalova, James Farrer, Chuanfei Wang, Christian A. Hess. Global Food Fashions and Their Cultural Intermediaries. The Global Japanese Restaurant. 2023. 117-163
  • Christian A. Hess, James Farrer, David L. Wank, Mônica R. de Carvalho, Lenka Vyletalova, Chuanfei Wang. Japantown Restaurants:. The Global Japanese Restaurant. 2023. 67-116
  • Chuanfei Wang, James Farrer, Christian A. Hess. Imperialism and Its Culinary Legacies:. The Global Japanese Restaurant. 2023. 21-66
  • James Farrer, Christian Hess, Mônica R. de Carvalho, Chuanfei Wang, David Wank. Japanese culinary mobilities: The multiple globalizations of Japanese cuisine. Routledge Handbook of Food in Asia. 2019. 39-57
  • Christian Hess. Sino-Soviet City: Dalian between Socialist Worlds, 1945-1955. JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY. 2018. 44. 1. 9-25
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MISC (6)：
  • Christian Hess. [Book Review] William Sewell, Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun 1905-1945 (University of British Columbia Press, 2019). Twentieth Century China. 2021. 46. 1
  • Christian Hess. [Book Review] Amar, Cyril. The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis and Nationalists (Cornell University Press, 2015). http://www.secondworldurbanity.org/second-world-urbanity-2/reading-lviv-through-the-lens-of-modern-chinese-history. 2015
  • Christian Hess. [Book Review] Chen Xiangming, ed., Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity (Minnesota, 2009). China Review International. 2014. 19. 2. 231-234
  • Christian Hess. Dalian’s Past and Present. The China Beat http://www.thechinabeat.org/?p=3733. 2011
  • Christian Hess. [Book Review] Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, ed., The Nanking Atrocity 1937-1938: Complicating the Picture (Berghahn, 2007),. History: The Journal of the Historical Association. 2010. 95. 3. 360-362
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Books (12)：
  • “Global Food Fashions and their Cultural Intermediaries” in The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics (Food in Asia and the Pacific)
    University of Hawaii Press 2023 ISBN:0824895142
  • “Japantown Restaurants: From Community Spaces to Touristic Imaginaries” in The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics (Food in Asia and the Pacific)
    University of Hawaii Press 2023 ISBN:0824895142
  • “Imperialism and its Culinary Legacies: Japanese Restaurants in East Asia" in The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics (Food in Asia and the Pacific)
    University of Hawaii Press 2023 ISBN:0824895142
  • “Martyrs, Military Heroes and Massacre Victims: The Complex Memorial Terrain of Lushun, 1894-present” in Tina Burrett and J. Kingston, eds., Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia
    Routledge 2023 ISBN:9781032274218
  • “Culinary Mobilities: The Multiple Globalizations of Japanese Cuisine” in Routledge handbook of food in Asia (Leong-Salobir, ed.)
    Routledge 2019 ISBN:9781138669918
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Lectures and oral presentations  (30)：
  • “Decolonizing Dalian: Geopolitical Crisis, War, and the Making of a Chinese Socialist Urban Order in a Former Colonial City, 1945-1955”
    (at the international symposium “Cities in Crisis: Planning and Design, Governance, and Daily Operations” at the University of Hong Kong, September 14, 2024. Invited. 2024)
  • “Decolonizing Dalian: Geopolitics and the Making of a Chinese Socialist Urban Order in a Former Japanese Colonial City, 1945-1955”
    (Japanese Association of Modern East Asian History Research Group Meeting, Toyo Bunko, Tokyo, May 18. 2024)
  • “Decolonizing Dalian: Geopolitics and the Making of a New Urban Order in a Former Colonial City”
    (International Symposium on “Order and Disorder” in Modern Cities, hosted by the Academica Sinica and the Center for International Social Science Research and the University of Chicago, Taipei Taiwan 2023)
  • "From Mountain Paths to Motorways: Road Building and State Expansion in Guizhou Province, 1926-1949" for the panel “Bordering Regimes: Co-Existence, Compromise, and Competition Among “Minority” Actors and State Making in Twentieth Century East Asia
    (Association for Asian Studies in Asia Annual Conference, Daegu, South Korea 2023)
  • Modern War and the Chinese City: Urban Development Between Total War, Civil War, and Cold War
    (World War Two and Urban Reconstruction in the Socialist World, University of Leicester. https://citiesatwar.omeka.net/about 2020)
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Education (3)：
  • 1999 - 2006 University of California at San Diego History Ph.D. Modern Chinese History
  • 1999 - 2003 University of California at San Diego History Masters Degree
  • 1991 - 1997 University of California at Davis History Bachelor of Arts
Professional career (3)：
  • B.A. (University of California Davis)
  • M.A. (University of California San Diego)
  • Ph.D. (University of California San Diego)
Work history (7)：
  • 2019 - 現在 Keio University Faculty of Economics PEARL (Programme in Economics for Alliances, Research and Leadership)
  • 2014/04 - 現在 Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts Associate Professor
  • 2018 - 2019 University of California, Davis Department of History Visiting Scholar
  • 2015 - 2017 The University of Tokyo PEAK (Programs in English at Komaba)
  • 2012 - 2014 Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts Assistant Professor
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Committee career (2)：
  • 2023/09 - 現在 Association for Asian Studies President, Asian Studies Conference Japan
  • 2013 - 現在 Asian Studies Conference Japan Executive Committee Member,
Awards (9)：
  • 2024/04 - Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Special Fund Grant New Perspectives on Japanese Colonialism and Imperialism in East Asia Workshop
  • 2016 - Sophia University Special Grant for Academic Research in Priority Areas “Culinary Globalization from Below: Historical and Sociological Approaches to the Japanese Food Boom in China and the USA”
  • 2015 - Sophia University Sophia Symposium Grant Empire and Aftermath: New Perspectives on the Japanese Empire
  • 2013 - Sophia University Institute for Comparative Cultures Research Unit Award Postcolonial Cities in Asia
  • 2010 - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) International Network Grant
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Association Membership(s) (5)：
Association for Asian Studies ,  Historical Society for Twentieth Century China ,  Asian Studies Conference Japan ,  Global Studies Consortium ,  Global Urban History Project
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