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Harry Harootunian
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Professor of East Asian Studies
Ph.D. 1958 (History), Michigan; M.A. 1953 (Far Eastern Studies), Michigan; B.A. 1951, Wayne State

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Research Interests:

Early modern and modern Japanese history; historical theory.

Affiliations:

Association for Asian Studies

Fellowships/Honors:

Slated to deliver Wellek Lectures in Critical Theory, University of California, Irvine, 1997; former Max Palevsky Professor of History and Civilizations, University of Chicago; former Dean of Humanities, University of California, Santa Cruz; former Editor, Journal for Asian Studies; former Coeditor, Critical Inquiry.

Selected Works:

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 History Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice and the Question of the Everyday Life, Columbia University Press, 2000. (ISBN: 0-231-11794-9)

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 Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture and Commodity in Interwar Japan, Princeton University Press, 2000. (ISBN: 0-691-09548-5)
  An Asia-Pacific series, coed. with Rey Chow and Masao Miyoshi. Duke University Press. Forthcoming.
  Japan in the World, ed. with Masao Miyoshi, Duke University Press, 1993. (ISBN: 0-822-31368-5)



Toward Restoration, University of California Press, 1991. (ISBN 0-520-07403-3)



Postmodernism in Japan, with Masao Miyoshi, Duke University Press, 1989. (ISBN: 0-822-30896-7)


Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism, University of Chicago Press, 1988. (ISBN: 0-226-31707-2)

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