328 Mingzhai Hall
Department of International Relations
School of Social Sciences
Tsinghua University
Beijing, 100084, China
Email: wangminzhao@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Politics and Diplomacy in East Asia, Sino-Japanese Relations, Studies of Identity Formation
Education
2021 Ph.D., Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo
2016 Master, Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo
2016 Master, School of International Studies, Peking University
2013 B.A., School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University
2013 B.A., School of International Studies, Peking University
Employment
2024-present Lecturer, Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University
2021-2024 Boya Postdoc, School of International Studies, Peking University
Current Courses
International Relations History of East Asia (in English)
Research Design (in English)
Summer English Course
学术论文
“A ‘Beneficial State’ Versus an ‘Ideal State’: Japan's Construction of Legitimacy for Manchukuo (1931-1937)”, Journal of Japanese Invasion of China and Nanjing Massacre, 2024. (In Chinese, Forthcoming)
“Red Sunset and Wide Land: Manchuria as a Cultural Symbol in Modern and Contemporary Japan”, Nakamura Motoya and Murada Yūjirō (Edit): A History of Personnel Exchanges in the China-related Community in Postwar Japan: Until the Normalization of Sino-Japanese Relations, Tokyo: Tōyō Bunko, 2024, P109-129. (In Japanese)
“Sustainable Development Goals: Building a Value Base for China-Japan Cooperation”, Zhongyang Shehuizhuyi Xueyuan Xuebao, 2023, pp. 175-182. (In Chinese)
“Mount Fuji: the Construction and Dissemination of Japanese Cultural Symbols”, Zhongyang Shehuizhuyi Xueyuan Xuebao, 2022, pp. 165-171. (In Chinese)
Ph.D. Dissertation
Japan’s Efforts of Identity Construction in Manchuria, 1905-1942 (The University of Tokyo, 2021)
Teaching Experience
Instructor
Diplomatic History of the People's Republic of China, Peking University, Spring 2024
Diplomatic History of the People's Republic of China, Peking University, Autumn 2022
Diplomatic History of the People's Republic of China, Peking University, Spring 2022
Teaching Assistant
ITASIA 102 (Politics and Diplomacy of Asia), the University of Tokyo, Autumn 2017
Service
Faculty Commentator for the 20th Doctoral Seminar at the Center for Modern Japanese Studies, Peking University
Faculty Commentator for the 19th Doctoral Seminar at the Center for Modern Japanese Studies, Peking University
Faculty Commentator for the 2023 Doctoral Forum at the School of International Studies, Peking University
Conference Presentations (Selected)
“Human Security: The Construction of Japan's Diplomatic Identity and the Dissemination of International Discourse”, 2023 Forum for Young Scholars in Asian Studies, Nankai University, December 8-10th, 2023 (In Chinese)
“Greater East Asia Conference: Japan Empire's Concept of Regional Order”，The Fourth Forum for Young Scholars on China-Japan Relations, Fudan University, October 21st 2023. (In Chinese)
“A ‘Beneficial State’ Versus an ‘Ideal State’: Japan's Construction of Legitimacy for Manchukuo (1931-1937)”, Forum on Transnational History: The Collapse of Orders, China and the World in the 1930s, December 17th 2022. (In Chinese)
“Constructing a Manchurian Identity in a Time of Total War: Shengjing Shibao’s Editorials, 1937–1942”, the 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Kyoto, Japan, 24-27th August 2021.
“Constructing Manchurian Identity: The De-Sinicization Tendency in Shengjing Shibao’s Reports During the Escalating Sino-Japanese Conflicts, 1919-1931”, AAS-in-Asia Conference 2018, New Delhi, 6th July, 2018.
“The Shock and Adjustment of Japan-U.S. Alliance: an Analysis on the U.S. Factor in Japan’s Normalization with China”, British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS) Annual Conference 2015, London, 10th September, 2015.
“Sinophobia among Japanese Consumers since the Initiation of Cross‐border Trade with China”, Asian Borderlands Conference: Re‐openings, Ruptures, and Relationships, Hong Kong, 8th December, 2014.
“Abe's Pragmatic Rightist Strategy on Senkaku Issue and Its Impact on Sino-Japanese Relations” (with Anran Wang), The 14th International Conference of European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), Ljubljana, 29th August, 2014.
Fellowships and Honors
Boya Postdoc（2021）
The University of Tokyo Fellowship, the University of Tokyo（2016）
Excellent Graduate, Peking University（2016）
First Class of Master’s Thesis Award, School of International Studies, Peking University（2016）
GraSPP’s Outstanding Student Award, Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo（2016）
Academic Excellence Award, Peking University（2011, 2014）
Excellent Graduate, Peking University（2013）
Academic Excellence Award, Social Contribution Award, First Prize Scholarship, Wusi Scholarship, AEON Scholarship, ect. (2010-2013)
