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“Conceptions of the Political System in the People’s Republic of China: Focusing on Debates during the Process of Drafting the 1954 Constitution” (Asian Economy, Vol. 66, No. 2, 2025), “The Formulation Process of China’s ‘First Five-Year Plan’: The Positioning of Agricultural Collectivization, 1952–1955” (Monthly Journal of China Studies, Vol. 77, No. 5, 2023)“How Did Beijing Become the Capital of the People’s Republic of China? Political Leaders’ Perceptions of State Formation and the Capital, 1946–1949” (Asian Studies, Vol. 67, No. 4, 2021)

Completed the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. After serving as a Professor at Chiba University of Commerce and in other positions, assumed the current position in 2015. Has conducted research as a visiting scholar at the Institute of History, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; the Centre of Asian Studies, the University of Hong Kong; the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei; Yonsei University, Seoul; and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Beyond Culinary Nationalism: A World History of Chinese Food (Keio University Press, 2021) and Chinese Cuisine and the Japanese: A 100-Year History from Imperialism to Nostalgic Flavors (Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2025).

The Shanghai Economy under Socialism: The Impact of the Planned Economy and Public Ownership (University of Tokyo Press, 2018), Shanghai under the Socialist System: The Impact of the Planned Economy and the Socialist Transformation (Springer Singapore, 2025), Economic Development in East Asia during the Cold War Era: China and Taiwan (Koyo Shobo, 2024, co-editor), and Economic History of Modern China: An Approach Based on Statistical Data (University of Tokyo Press, 2016, co-author).

Graduated from the Faculty of Law, Keio University, and studied in the master’s and doctoral programs at the Graduate School of Law, Keio University. After serving as a Research Associate (Non-tenured) at the Graduate School of Law and as a part-time Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, assumed the current position. Concurrently serves as a part-time Instructor at the National Defense Academy of Japan. Studied at Alliance Française de Lyon, France, from 2013 to 2015.

“Revisiting the ‘Chamdo Campaign’ by the People’s Liberation Army” (Report of the Japanese Association for Tibetan Studies, No. 69, 2023), “The Dual Nature of the Chinese Communist Party’s Tibet Policy during the Early Years of the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1952” (Hogaku Seijigaku Ronkyu: Journal of Law and Political Studies, No. 130, 2021), Understanding English Reading through Sentence Structure (FUNKASY Publishing Division, 2025, co-author), and Intelligentized Warfare: A New ‘Human-Friendly’ Form of Warfare as Seen by a Chinese Military Officer (Gogatsu Shobo Shinsha, 2021, co-translator).

Graduated from the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University. Completed the required coursework for the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, before withdrawing without a degree. After serving as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, was appointed Professor at the Faculty of Policy Management in 2015. Studied at the International Cultural Exchange School, Fudan University, from 1995 to 1996. From 2001 to 2003, served as a Special Researcher in the Research Department of the Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong. From 2011 to 2012, was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. In 2013, was a Visiting Associate Professor at the College of International Affairs, National Chengchi University. From 2016 to 2018, served as a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official and as Consul and Head of the Analysis Unit at the Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong. During the same period, was a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University. Returned to the Faculty of Policy Management as Professor in 2018 and has served as Dean since 2021.

Contemporary Chinese Politics and People’s Congresses: Reforms of People’s Congresses and Changes in the “Guiding-Guided” Relationship (Keio University Press, 2006), China Ten Years from Now: A Great Power amid Insecurity (Ichigeisha, 2021), The Development of China’s Party-State System under Xi Jinping (Wunan Book, 2026, co-editor), After the Ukraine Crisis: Choices for the International Community and Japan (Toyo Keizai, 2025, editor), Infectious Diseases and State Capacity (Ichigeisha, 2025, editor), Political Economy of Reform in China (Springer, 2022, co-author), and The Theater of Power: The Institutionalization and Operation of Chinese Communist Party Congresses (Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2023, supervising translator).

“Hereditary Employment in Socialist China: The Intermittent Implementation of the ‘Child Replacement Employment Policy’” (Monthly Journal of Chinese Affairs, Vol. 79, No. 12, 2025), “Reality of the Disappearance of Unemployment in China: A Study of the Implementation of the Downsizing Policy” (Ajia Keizai, Vol. 65, No. 4, 2024), and “The Rise and Reform of China’s Unemployment Insurance System: Political Dynamics of Social Security System” (Asian Studies, Vol. 68, No. 4, 2022).

Completed the required coursework for the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Law, Keio University, before withdrawing without a degree. After serving as a Special Researcher in the Political Section of the Embassy of Japan in China and as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, assumed the current position. Studied in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Peking University from 1995 to 1996. From 2015 to 2017, was a Visiting Scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.

Workers’ Organizations and National Integration in China: Central–Local Political Dynamics Surrounding the Trade Unions (Keio University Press, 2021), Chinese Communist Party Governance and Grassroots Cadres (Keio University Press, 2023, co-editor), Xi Jinping’s China (University of Tokyo Press, 2022, co-editor), China’s Trade Unions: How Autonomous Are They? A Survey of 1,811 enterprise union chairpersons (Routledge, 2010, co-author).

Completed the required coursework for the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Economics, Keio University, before withdrawing without a degree. After serving as a staff member at The Kazankai Foundation, a Lecturer at Dokkyo University, and subsequently as a Lecturer and Associate Professor at Keio University, assumed the current position. Studied at the School of Economics, Nankai University, from 1989 to 1990. Has served as a Director of The Kazankai Foundation since 2021 and as President of the Japan Bicycle Promotion Institute (JBPI) since 2023.

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Transitional China, Zeimu Keiri Kyokai, 2005.

China’s Bicycle Industry: “Reform and Opening Up” and Industrial Development, Keio University Press, 2011.

An Inductive Approach to the Study of Chinese Industries, Doyukan, 2014. Co-edited.

The Bicycle Industry and Society in Modern Japan: Toward the Creation of New Value, Doyukan, 2023. Edited.

The Rights Protection Movement and the State in Contemporary China (Keio University Press, 2014), State Formation in Contemporary China: Continuities and Discontinuities from the Republic of China (Keio University Press, 2024, co-author), Urbanization in China: Expansion, Instability, and Mechanisms of Governance (Institute of Developing Economies, 2015, co-author), The Origins of Politics and Diplomacy in Contemporary China (Keio University Press, 2013, co-author), Petitioning: From the Bottom of Chinese Society (Toho Shoten, 2012, co-author), The Chinese Communist Party’s Survival Strategies (Sanwa Shoseki, 2012, co-author), The Party-State System Today: A Changing Society and the Adaptation of the Chinese Communist Party (Keio University Press, 2012, co-author), and China: Governance from the Grassroots (Hosei University Press, 2010, co-author).

Completed the required coursework for the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Law, Keio University, before withdrawing without a degree. After serving as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Kyorin University, and subsequently as a Lecturer and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business and Commerce at Keio University, assumed the current position. From 2008 to 2010, was a Visiting Scholar at the Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. From 2017 to 2020, concurrently served as a Chair Professor at the School of History, Nankai University, China.

Chiang Kai-shek and the New Life Movement (Keio University Press, 2006), Revised Edition Japan-China Relations at a Crossroads (Koyo Shobo, 2012, co-editor), Chiang Kai-shek’s Wartime Diplomacy and Postwar Vision: 1941–1971 (Keio University Press, 2021), State Formation in Contemporary China (Keio University Press, 2024, editor)

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“The Construction of the Management System of Intellectuals in the People’s Republic of China: The Political Process Leading up to the Conference on Intellectuals in 1956” Asian Studies, Vol. 72, Nos. 1 & 2, June 2026

“The Reconstruction Process of Policy toward Intellectuals in China in the Early 1980s: Political Dynamics of Policy Making and Implementation” Hogaku seijigaku ronkyu : Journal of law and political studies, No. 149, June 2026

Completed the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University. After serving as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Global and Intercultural Studies at Ferris University and subsequently as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Policy Management at Keio University, assumed the current position. From 2019 to 2020, was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University. From 2024 to 2025, was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute.

Revolution and Society in Rural China (Keio University Press, 2009), Mao's Political Campaigns and the Daily Lives of Ordinary People (Keio University Press, 2021, co-editor), Revolution and Intimacy: Everyday Politics under Mao (Toho Shoten, 2024, co-editor), Chinese Society in Flux: Exclusion and Inclusion (Keio University Press, 2025).

Graduated from the Faculty of Modern Chinese Studies, Aichi University. Completed the master’s program at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, and subsequently completed the required coursework for the doctoral program before withdrawing without a degree. Completed the doctoral program at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, and received a DPhil in Oriental Studies. After serving as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, a Tutor on the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford, and a Research Associate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, assumed the current position.

Thomas P. Barrett and Joshua A. Fogel, eds., Postwar Trends in Japanese Sinology: Voices from the Frontlines of Japanese Scholarship on China (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, forthcoming).

Thomas P. Barrett, ‘Qing Diplomacy’s Scottish Face: Halliday Macartney, Yamen Culture, and Diplomatic Transformation in China’s London Legation, 1877-1905’, Late Imperial China 45 (2024).

Thomas P. Barrett, “Qing Legation Members as Private Diplomatic Actors: D. B. McCartee’s Role in the Sino-Japanese Dispute over the Ryukyu Annexation,” Shigaku Zasshi, vol. 131, no. 2 (2022), pp. 1–38.

Thomas P. Barrett, “The Role of Western Staff in Qing China’s Legations: Halliday Macartney and the Sino-French War,” Toyo Gakuho, vol. 100, no. 3 (2018), pp. 59–93.

Completed the required coursework for the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Law, Keio University, before withdrawing without a degree. After serving as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Showa Women’s University and as a Professor at the Institute for Journalism, Media & Communication Studies, Keio University, assumed the current position. From 2017 to 2018, was a Visiting Researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

The Political Sociology of Communication: Media Discourse, Hegemony, and Democracy, Minerva Shobo, 2012.

The Political Sociology of News: Critical Studies on Media and the Political, Keiso Shobo, 2022.

Media Politics amid Conflict and Division: Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, and Germany, Keio University Press, 2022. Edited.

“Mass Society” Theory in the Age of Social Media: Reconsidering the Concept of “Mass”, Minerva Shobo, 2024. Co-edited.

Completed the required coursework for the doctoral program in Chinese Literature at the Graduate School of Letters, Keio University, before withdrawing without a degree. After serving as a Japanese language teacher at Keio Senior High School, assumed the current position. Studied at the College of Chinese Language and Culture and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Nankai University, from 1997 to 1999. From 2016 to 2018, was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

“The Life of Wu Hsün as Seen from Its Screen Images: With Reference to the Creative Style of the Director Sun Yü” (Tohogaku, No. 139, 2020), My Youth, Taiwan (Gogatsu Shobo Shinsha, 2020, supervising translator), and Transforming Foreign Language Education (Sanshusha, 2022, co-author). Has also translated Japanese subtitles for Chinese-language films, including Fu Yue’s Our Youth in Taiwan (2020) and Chung Mong-hong’s A Foggy Tale (2025, co-translator).

Completed the required coursework for the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Law, Keio University, before withdrawing without a degree. After serving as a part-time Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Kyorin University, joined the Faculty of Law, Keio University, as an Assistant Professor in April 1999, and assumed the current position in April 2010. From April 2001 to March 2003, was a Visiting Scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. From April 2019 to March 2020, was a Visiting Scholar at the Dr. Seaker Chan Center for Comparative Political Development Studies, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, and at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University.

The CCP and the Three Gorges Dam: The Political Process behind a National Project (Keio University Press, 2025), State Formation in Contemporary China: Continuities and Discontinuities from the Republic of China (Keio University Press, 2024, co-author), and The Origins of Politics and Diplomacy in Contemporary China (Keio University Press, 2013, co-author).