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Douglas Howland, David D. Buck Professor of Chinese History and Department Chair

Office: Holton Hall 330
Phone: (414) 229-5518
E-mail: dhowland@uwm.edu

Degree:
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1989

Research Interests:
Westernization in East Asia; the introduction of international law to China and Japan; liberalism and popular sovereignty in the 19th century

Current Teaching Interests:
Ancient China; modern China and Japan; law, sovereignty and the state; the rise of a global economy; historical methods

Recent Publications:
Personal Liberty and Public Good: The Introduction of John Stuart Mill to Japan and China. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005).

"On the Benefits of Foreign Relations with China: A New Development in Fukuzawa Yukichi's Theory of Civilization," in Late Qing China and Meiji Japan: Political and Cultural Aspects, ed. Joshua A. Fogel (Norwalk, CT: EastBridge Books, 2004), 21-38.

"The Predicament of Ideas in Culture: Translation and Historiography," History and Theory 42 (2003): 45-60.

Translating the West: Language and Political Reason in Nineteenth-Century Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.

"Samurai Status, Class, and Bureaucracy: A Historiographical Essay," Journal of Asian Studies 62.2 (2001): 353-380.

"Translating Liberty in Nineteenth-Century Japan," Journal of the History of Ideas 62.1 (2001): 161-181.

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