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My name is Michael Facius.
I am a historian working at University College London.
My name is Michael Facius.
I am a historian working at University College London.
I am a historian of early modern and modern Japan in its regional and global contexts. Currently I work at the Centre for Transnational History, University College London as a British Academy Newton International Fellow. My research interests are in global history, the history of knowledge, historiography, translation studies, and software studies. I received my Dr. phil. from Freie Universität Berlin in 2016. Before moving on to Berlin, I pursued an MA in linguistics, Japanese studies and political science at Bonn University.
Ich forsche zur modernen und frühmodernen japanischen Geschichte in regionalen und globalen Kontexten. Aktuell arbeite ich als British Academy Newton International Fellow am Zentrum für Transnationale Geschichte, University College London. Meine Forschungsinteressen liegen in den Bereichen Globalgeschichte, Wissensgeschichte, Geschichte der Geschichtswissenschaft, Übersetzungsstudien und Softwarestudien.
Aktuell arbeite ich an einem Forschungsprojekt mit dem Titel "Jenseits von Edo. Transnationale Narrative der 'Frühen Neuzeit' in Japan im 20. Jahrhundert".
Ich wurde 2016 an der Freien Universität Berlin mit einer Arbeit zum Thema "China übersetzen. Chinesisches Wissen und Globalisierung in Japan im 19. Jahrhundert" promoviert. Eine überarbeitete Fassung ist im Dezember 2017 bei Campus erschienen. Zuvor habe ich an der Universität Bonn Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Japanologie und Politikwissenschaft studiert.
ミハエル・ハチウスと申します。UCLのトランスナショナル・ヒストリー研究所の研究員です。２０１６年ベルリン自由大学日本文化学科・世界史学科博士課程単位取得。
おもな研究分野は世界史からみた近世・近代日本文化史、日中関係史、「知」の文化史、翻訳史、ソフトウェア文化史。
現在取り組んでいるテーマは「２０世紀日本の近世観」です。トランスナショナルな観点から、「江戸」という表象を越える、つまり国家主義という枠組みで理解しがたい、近世の様々な現象をめぐる物語の特徴を明らかにしたいと思います。
主著『中国の翻訳――１９世紀日本におけるグローバリゼーションと中国の「知」』Campus出版社、２０１７年（ドイツ語）。
姓名：范谧轩。伦敦大学学院跨国历史学系所属研究员。2016年毕业于德国柏林自由大学，日本历史学博士。2008年毕业于波恩大学、语言学、日本文化学、政治学硕士。
主要研究方向：全球历史角度下的近世与近代日本文化史、“知识”史、翻译史、软件史。现在的研究课题是“在20世纪日本的近世观”。
主要著作《翻译中国――１９世纪日本的全球化和中国的“知”》Campus出版社、2017年（德语）。
I am currently preparing a manuscript titled "Beyond Edo. Narrating the Early Modern in 20th-century Japan". The project engages with the different ways in which Japanese historians, intellectuals, exhibition-makers and people in the tourism business imagined the time and space of an earlier epoch. more »
As the title suggests, the project approaches stories about the early modern period in Japan from the vantage point of transnational and global history. It focuses on stories which have not received a lot of scholarly attention: stories that go beyond "Edo" - the old name of the capital, which is often used as a shortcut for cultural achievements from kabuki to sushi which are today closely associated with a national heritage. The project is comprised of several case studies that together showcase the diverse forms of the Japanese engagement with the early modern past.
I am also working on an introduction to software studies, an burgeoning interdisciplinary field that explores software in its cultural, social, economic and political contexts. The book will be published with transcript.
Chinese knowledge and globalization in nineteenth-century Japan
In this book, I explore how the field of Chinese knowledge in Japan, i.e. scholarship based on the study of texts written in classical Chinese, evolved in the context of 19th-century globalization. Published by Campus in December 2017 (in German).
I have been teaching at UCL, Freie Universität Berlin and as a short-term guest lecturer at Universiteit Leiden and the University of Cambridge, both in the East Asian studies and history departments at the BA and MA level. I own a diploma in college teaching from the inter-university Berliner Zentrum für Hochschullehre.
I have been participating in outreach events such as the Berlin Long Night of the Sciences and in collaborative projects with high schools in Berlin. I have also published posts in academic blogs on the history of sexuality and the history of emotions.
Want to know more? Visit my profile at UCL and Academia.edu.