Handa chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations

University of Edinburgh

Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations was created in 2011 to support deeper understanding and research on the modern history and literature of Japan and China. The Chair is held by Professor Aaron William Moore, who heads Asian Studies at University of Edinburgh. Professor Moore is an esteemed scholar working in the field of comparative history.

In 2018 Professor Moore published his second book, Bombing the City, which won the ICAS Teaching Tool Accolade in 2019.

In 2019 he signed the professorial roll at the University of Edinburgh and delivered his Inaugural Lecture, ‘My World in War and Revolution’, a comparative study of diary writing in China, Japan, Russia, the US, and Great Britain. In 2021 he was awarded a Taiwan Fellowship to further his work on speculative science writing in interwar Japan, China, and the former Soviet Union. He has forthcoming articles on the history of childhood and youth around the world, archival collections on WWII China, and an edited volume entitled How Maoism Was Made with Oxford University Press.

Other publications by Profesor Moore includes Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire. Harvard University Press, 2013.