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Faculty of Law, Department of Political Science (Mita)
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Assistant Professor/Senior Assistant Professor
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Thomas P. Barrett
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Thomas is a Japan-trained historian of East Asia, who specialises in the international, diplomatic and transnational history of the region up until the end of the long nineteenth century. He is also interested in the historical development of the Japanese kangaku/sinological tradition, including its people, methodologies, and arguments, and the wider history of knowledge production in the Japanese academic and intellectual contexts. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and as Co-Editor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press' new Japanese Sinology Series.
Thomas was trained in the Japanese Tōyōshi 東洋史 tradition, completing his BA at Aichi University (the successor to the Shanghai-based Toā Dōbun Shoin 東亜同文書院) and his MA at the University of Tokyo. In 2016, he began his PhD at the University of Tokyo as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science DC Research Fellow under the guidance of Professors Murata Yūjirō 村田雄二郎 and Kawashima Shin 川島真. In 2019, he moved to the University of Oxford to complete his doctoral work under the supervision of Professor Henrietta Harrison. He has also studied at Nankai University in Tianjin, China, and at National Taiwan University in Taipei. Before taking up his current post in Keio, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
Titled ‘Foreigners and the Making of the Chinese Diplomat’, Thomas’ doctoral thesis evaluated the significance of foreigners who were employed as counsellors, secretaries, legal advisors and consuls in late Qing and early Republican China’s legations and consulates, as a means to trace how Western European diplomatic culture and practice came to be institutionalised in China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The dissertation was the recipient of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland's 2023 Bayly Prize. The project was funded in Japan by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and in Britain by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Parts of the project have been published in Late Imperial China, the renowned Japanese journals Shigaku Zasshi 史学雑誌 (which was the recipient of the 10th Historical Society of Japan Prize 第10回史学会賞) and Tōyō Gakuhō 東洋学報, and in an edited French volume published in October 2021 by the École française d'Extrême-Orient. Monographs are currently being prepared in English and Japanese.
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2023.01-2025.03
University of Cambridge, Wolfson College, Junior Research Fellow
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2022.09-2025.03
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Postdoctoral Research Associate
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2020.10-2022.07
University of Oxford, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Lecturer (Modern Chinese History)
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2020.04-2022.07
University of Oxford, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Lecturer (Modern and Contemporary Japanese History)
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2020.01-2021.01
Williams College, Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford, Tutor (Politics of China)
Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】
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2019.10-2022.07
University of Oxford, Faculty of Oriental Studies
United Kingdom, Graduate School, Completed, Doctoral course
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2016.04-2019.07
The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Area Studies
Graduate School, Withdrawal after completion of doctoral course requirements, Doctoral course
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2014.01-2016.03
The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Area Studies
Graduate School, Completed, Master's course
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2008.04-2012.03
Aichi University, Faculty of Modern Chinese Studies, Department of Modern Chinese Studies
University, Graduated
Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】
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Humanities & Social Sciences / Historical studies in general
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Humanities & Social Sciences / History of Asia and Africa
Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】
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Modern Chinese History
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Early Modern Chinese History
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History of East Asian International Relations
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East Asian History
Papers 【 Display / hide 】
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Thomas P. Barrett
Late Imperial China 45 ( 2 ) 1 - 39 2024
Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author, Accepted
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Thomas P. Barrett
Shigaku Zasshi 131 ( 2 ) 1 - 38 2022
Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author, Accepted
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Thomas P. Barrett
China and Asia 5 ( 1 ) 120 - 124 2023.07
Single Work, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author
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Foreigners and the making of the Chinese diplomat
Thomas P. Barrett
2022
Doctoral thesis, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author, Accepted
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Thomas P. Barrett
(EFEO) 275 - 302 2021.10
Part of collection (book), Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author, Accepted, ISSN 1269-8067
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2023.12, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Type of Award： Award from publisher, newspaper, foundation, etc., Country： United Kingdom
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10th Historical Society of Japan Prize
2023.11, The Historical Society of Japan
Type of Award： Award from Japanese society, conference, symposium, etc.
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The Political and Diplomatic History of Late Imperial China: From the Yuan-Ming Transition to the Opium War
2025, Undergraduate (specialized), Lecture, Within own ｆaculty
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The Political and Diplomatic History of Modern China: From the Macartney Mission to the Founding of the People's Republic of China
2025, Undergraduate (specialized), Lecture, Within own ｆaculty
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SEMINAR 2
2025
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SEMINAR 1
2025
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SEMINAR (DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE) 2
2025
Committee Experiences 【 Display / hide 】
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2025.01-Present
Associate Editor, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
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2024.01-Present
Series Editor, Japanese Sinology Series, Chinese University of Hong Kong Press