"The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives" by Daiwa Scholarship alumnus, Dr Christopher Harding

Former Daiwa Scholar Dr Christopher Harding’s new book,  The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives was published in November 2020.

The book’s twenty portraits take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current empress, Masako, via shamans and warlords, poets and revolutionaries, scientists, artists and adventurers.  (Read on here.)

A review of the book by Waldemar Januszczak was featured in The Times : https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/culture/the-japanese-by-christopher-harding-review-an-impressive-history-n8m90l5fh .

A review of the book by Iain Maloney was featured inThe Japan Times: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/11/21/books/book-reviews/the-japanese-a-history-in-twenty-lives/

Chris is a Cultural Historian of Japan and India, based at the University of Edinburgh.

Previous Japan-related publication

Chris’s cultural history of modern Japan, Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present was published by Allen Lane on 1 November 2018.

Chris gave a talk about Japan Story at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation on 31 October 2018. More information here.