Liu Yang

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Affiliation and department：
Job title： Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Research field (1)： History - General

Research keywords (20)： Maritime East Asia , Early Modern History , Slave Trade , Imjin War , Opium Wars , Wokou , Captives , Fusetsugaki , Travelogue , Missionary , Jesuits , Japan , China , Choson , Ryukyu , Macao , Portugal , Spain , Netherlands , Britain

Research theme for competitive and other funds (2)：

2022 - 2027 Transformations in the 16th-17th Century East Asian Maritime World through Western Encounters: Using Multilingual Primary Sources
2020 - 2023 Beyond Bondage: Captive Mobility and Agency in the Maritime Order of East Asia during the 14th-17th Centuries

Papers (10)：

Yang Liu. The Aftermath of the Imjin War: Macau's Role in the Maritime World of East Asia. Review of Culture. 2025. 125. 7-19
Yang Liu, Arisa Nakagoe. The Lady Caged or the Princess Freed: Anne Noble and the Opium War from British and Japanese Perspectives. War & Society. 2025. 1-20
Yang Liu. Mobility, Exchanges, and Agency: Captives in the East Asian Maritime World in the 16th-17th Centuries. East Asian Studies. 2025. 6. 66-78
Yang Liu. Beyond Bondage: Captive Experiences and Adaption in the Maritime Order of East Asia during the 14th to 17th Centuries. DPhil Thesis, University of Oxford. 2025
Yang Liu. The Acquisition of Chinese Slaves by the Portuguese in the Late Ming Dynasty. Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy. 2025. 37. 2. 365-402

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MISC (2)：

Yang Liu. [Archival Introduction] A Record by Bettelheim's Chinese Assistant: A Newly Discovered Manuscript of the "Ryukyu Jitsuroku". Ryukyu Okinawa History. 2025. 7. 105-114
Yang Liu. [Archival Introduction] "Haiguo Shenghuanji": A Sixteenth-Century Chinese Captive's Record of Japan Perserved in the Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo. The Bulletin of the Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo. 2025. 35. 141-148

Books (2)：

Haiguo Shenghuanji: An Annotated Edition
Showwe Publishing 2025 ISBN:9786267346891
The Century of Don Quixote: Reading the Golden Age of SpainGolden A
Zhejiang University Press 2022 ISBN:9787308216340

Lectures and oral presentations (25)：

The Lady Caged or the Princess Freed: Anne Noble and the Opium War from British and Japanese Perspectives
(Symbiotic Empires: Britain and East Asia in the Long Nineteenth Century. The Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies. Online. 2026)
A Record by Bettelheim's Chinese Assistant
(Ryukyu Okinawa History Society January Seminar. Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts. Online. 2026)
Across the Seas and into New Orders: Transportation Networks and the Fate of "Captives" in the Imjin War
(Qiantang International Young Scholars Innovation and Development Forum. Zhejiang Gongshang University. 2025)
Reconsidering "Geppo Kaijo-roku": On the Relationship Between "Manshiroku" and "Teishi Hinanki"
(The Historical Society of Kyushu Conference. Kyushu University. 2025)
From Captives to Commodities: Pironins and the Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Maritime East Asia
(Global Economic History Seminar. Waseda University. 2025)

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Education (6)：

2020 - 2025 University of Oxford Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies DPhil
2019 - 2019 University of Cambridge Faculty of History PhD
2018 - 2019 University of Cambridge Faculty of History MPhil
2018 - 2018 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology MA
2016 - 2018 The University of Tokyo Faculty of Letters BA, Department of Occidental History

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Professional career (3)：

BA (The University of Tokyo)
MPhil (University of Cambridge)
DPhil (University of Oxford)

Work history (8)：

2025/11 - 現在 National Institutes for the Humanities Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
2025/11 - 現在 International Research Center for Japanese Studies Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
2025/10 - 現在 Waseda University School of Political Science and Economics Part-Time Lecturer
2025/03 - 現在 Zhejiang Gongshang University Institute of East Asian Studies Research Fellow
2025/04 - 2025/10 International Research Center for Japanese Studies Research Fellow

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Committee career (1)：

2020/10 - 2025/07 Oxford Global Exchanges Society Secretary

Awards (2)：

2024 - The British Association for Japanese Studies John Crump Studentship
2021 - Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford Sasakawa Scholarship

Association Membership(s) (5)：

Association for Studies of Chinese Society and Culture , The British Association for Japanese Studies , Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia , Choson History Society , The Historical Society of Japan

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