SHIRAISHI, Takashi
- Area Studies III
- Japanese Visiting Scholar (Professor)
- B. A. in International Relations, The University of Tokyo, 1972
Ph. D. in History, Cornell University, 1986
Current Research Interests
- The rise of China and the transformation of its vicinities
- The formation of East Asia
- Macro-comparative history of state formations in Southeast Asia
I am currently working on the topic, “The Rise of China and the Transformation
of Its Vicinities.” In this research, I examine the ways in which Southeast
Asian countries engage China both multilaterally and bilaterally while
keeping in mind the broader transformation in the regional order.
In the longer term, I am working on three book projects. The first is concerned
with the formation of East Asia (with special emphasis on Southeast Asia)
over a period from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. During this time the
Cold War came to an end, China transformed itself into a socialist market
economy, the Japanese economy boomed and busted, and de-facto economic
integration of East Asia proceeded with the deepening and expansion of
business networks. The second project is a macro-comparative history of
state formations in Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia/Singapore, Indonesia,
the Philippines, Thailand, and Burma. This book project builds on my previous
collection of essays, Umi no Teikoku(Empire of the Seas: The Making of a Region). My third project takes up
where An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java 1912-1926 left off by investigating the historical origins of surveillance politics
in Indonesia from 1927 to 1941.
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