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Jiakai Sheng Office hours: Autumn Quarter 2024 Thursday, 12:30-1:45pm Location: Foster Hall, room 04 Email Interests:

Modern Japan; Modern China; East Asian Transnational History; Japanese Colonial Empire; Japanese Diaspora; Sino-Japanese Relations; Urban History; History of Shanghai

Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, East Asian Civilizations (2024-26)

PhD '24 (East Asia – Japan), University of Chicago

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Modern Japan; Modern China; East Asian Transnational History; Japanese Colonial Empire; Japanese Diaspora; Sino-Japanese Relations; Urban History; History of Shanghai

DISSERTATION

Re-colonizing Shanghai: The Japanese Settlement in a Chinese Treaty Port, 1895-1937

PUBLICATIONS

"Negotiating Extra-settlement Roads: Boundary Making, Administrative Disputes, and Power Shifts in Treaty-port Shanghai, 1860–1937," Modern Asian Studies, Open Access, May 27, 2024.

Homeward Bound: The Postwar Repatriation of Japanese Civilians in Shanghai, 1945-1948,” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Volume 18, Issue 23, December 1, 2020.

NEWS

—Awarded Buchanan Prize by Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs