Japan and Asia: Business, Political and Cultural Interactions

Mariko TANIGAKI

Professor, Department of Area Studies,

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo

Professor Mariko TANIGAKI (Ph.D.) is a professor in the Department of Area Studies, The University of Tokyo, with a B.A. in Asian Studies and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Area Studies at The University of Tokyo, Japan. She studied at the Centre of Asian Studies, the University of Hong Kong, from September 1986 to September 1987. She also taught in the Department of Civilization, School of Letters, Tokai University, as an assistant and associate professor. Her research interests cover contemporary Hong Kong studies and southern China studies. Her recent publications include Henyō suru Kanan to Kajin Nettowāku (The Morphing South China and Contemporary Chinese Networks; co-edited, 2014), and Sengo Nihon no Chūgoku Kenkyū to Chūgoku Ninshiki (China Studies and Views toward China in Post-war Japan, co-edited; 2018), Colonial Legaciesand Contemporary Studies of China and Chineseness: Unlearning Binaries, Strategizing Self (Third Editor: Singapore: World Scientific, 2020). The former book received The Japan Consortium for Area Studies award for Collaborative Research. She is the former president of the Japan Association of South China Studies. She has written many articles on the politics and society of Hong Kong and has also contributed to the annual report of the Institute of Developing Economies (1993–2002, 2004–2006) and the Institute of Chinese Affairs (1995–2002) and also to the biannual report of the Japan Association for Asian Affairs (2004, 2006, and 2008).