Academic & Teaching staff

Professor Caroline Rose

Professor of Sino-Japanese Relations

About Professor Caroline Rose

Caroline Rose has been working in the Department of East Asian Studies since 1996. Her teaching and research focus on Sino-Japanese relations (with specific reference to the history problem), and various aspects of Japanese and Chinese foreign policy. She is currently working on a major project comparing history and citizenship education in China and Japan.

Recent Activities

University of Hong Kong, Department of Japanese Studies: Sino-Japanese Research Symposium May 24-7, 2009.

Key Publications and Activities

Books and Monographs

  • Sino-Japanese Relations: Facing the Past, Looking to the Future?, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
  • Interpreting History in Sino-Japanese Relations. Routledge, 1998.

Book Chapters and Articles

  • 'Reconciliation - the broader context' in Dobson, H. and Kosuge Nobuko (eds) The UK and Japan at War and Peace, RoutledgeCurzon, 2009.
  • 'Sino-Japanese relations and the dangers of new era diplomacy' in Dent, C.M. (ed.) China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia, Edward Elgar, 2008.
  • 'Breaking the Deadlock: Japan's informal diplomacy with China, 1958-9' in Iokibe, M, Rose, C.,  Tomaru J., and  Weste, J. (eds) Japan's Diplomacy in the 1950s: From Isolation to Integration,  RoutledgeCurzon, 2008.
  • 'The Yasukuni Shrine Problem in Sino-Japanese Relations: Facing a Stalemate' in John Breen (ed) Yasukuni, the war dead and the struggle for Japan's past, Hurst & Co, 2007.
  • 'The Battle for Hearts and Minds: Patriotic Education in Japan in the 1990s' in Shimazu, N. (ed.) Nationalism in Modern and Contemporary Japan, RoutledgeCurzon, 2006.
  • 'Japanese Role in PKO and Humanitarian Assistance' in Inoguchi and Jain (eds). Japanese Foreign Policy Today. Palgrave 2001 pp.122-135
  • '"Patriotism is not taboo": nationalism in China and Japan and implications for Sino-Japanese Relations'. Japan Forum 2000 12(2) 169-181.
  • 'The Textbook Issue: Domestic Sources of Japan's Foreign Policy'. Japan Forum 1999 11(2) 205-216. Interpreting History in Sino-Japanese Relations. Routledge 1998.

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • EAST3602 Sino-Japanese Relations (convenor).
  • EAST2322 Politics of Contemporary Japan (convenor).
  • EAST2323 International Relations of Contemporary Japan (convenor).
  • EAST1264 Japan in War and Peace (convenor).
  • EAST3261 Advanced Japanese: Politics and International Relations (convenor).

Postgraduate

EAST5026M Japan: Politics and International Relations

PhD Supervision

Current supervision covers the following areas:

  • Foreign care workers in Japan (co-supervision with POLIS)
  • Japanese security policy (co-supervision with WREAC)
  • Sino-Japanese relations - various aspects

Guidance on PhDs can be found in the Research Postgraduate pages.

Past PhD Supervisions

  • China-Mongolia relations since the end of the Cold War.
  • Cross-strait relations.
  • Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia.