Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University

Reader, Japan Centre

Email: Li.Narangoa@anu.edu.au
Phone: + 61 2 6125 3201
Fax: + 61 2 6125 3144
Room: e336 Baldessin Precinct Building

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Dr Li Narangoa [BA(Inner Mongolia); PhD(Bonn), Reader with the Japan Centre] specialises in modern Japanese and Mongolian history, culture and politics. Before she joined the ANU staff member she was researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (Copenhagen). She teaches courses in Japanese history and language as well as broader thematic courses including ‘Lies, Conspiracy and Propaganda’. Her current research interests include Japan’s relations with other Asian countries, Japan’s colonial history, education, religion, literature and military. Her interests also cover borders and empires in general as well as modern Mongolian history, identity and cities.

Currently, she is writing a history of Japanese trained armies in Northeast Asia 1932-1945 and is preparing a historical atlas of Northeast Asia.

Amongst her recent publications are Mongols from Country to City: Floating boundaries, Pasturalism and City Life in Mongol Lands (with Ole Brunn, eds.), NIAS Press 2006; Imperial Japan and National Identities in Asia, 1895-1945 (with Robert Cribb, eds.), Richmond: Curzon Routledge, 2003; Japanische Religionspolitik in der Mongolei 1932-1945. Reformbestrebungen und Dialog zwischen japanischem und mongolischem Buddhismus [Japanese Policy toward Religion in Mongolia 1932-1945: Reform Initiatives and Dialogue between Japanese and Mongolian Buddhism ], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998; Die Iwakura-Mission: Das Logbuch des Kume Kunitake ueber den Besuch der japanischen Sondergesandtschaft in Deutschland, Ssterreich und der Schweiz im Jahre 1873 (with Peter Pantzer, Matthias Eichhorn, Kerstin Hilker and Monika Schrimpf), Munchen: Judicium, 2002.

She is an honorary fellow of the Institute of Asia Pacific Education Development, Seoul National University and Departmental Associate in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU. She is member of the Association for Asian Studies (USA); the Asian Studies Association of Australia; the Association for Japanese Literature (Japan).