Postdoctoral Fellow & Course Instructor (Fall 2024)
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- East Asia
- Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
- State, Politics, and Law
Biography
Jiaying Shen is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at the University of Toronto, whose research focuses on modern Japanese and East Asian history.
Her dissertation examines the construction of maritime sovereignty in imperial Japan (1868-1945) by borrowing from the methods of the history of international law and cartography.
Education
MA, University of Toronto
BA, Fudan University
Publications
- “Free Sea or Territorial Waters? The Sino-Japanese Xiongyue Fishing Dispute, 1906-1912” (Cambridge University Press : 2023)
- “A Great Convergence: The Mass Killing of Chinese in the 1923 Kantō Massacre” (Routledge : 2020)
- “抗日战争时期中国战场上的朝鲜籍日军 [Korean Soldiers in the Japanese Military on the Battlefield of China]” ( : 2020)
- “缉私史与中国现代化进程 [The History of Anti-smuggling and the Modernization of China: A Book Review on China’s War on Smuggling]” ( : 2019)