About Dr 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. Dr Rose is on sabbatical until February 2010.

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).
• EAST1??? Japan in War and Peace (convenor).
• EAST3261 Advanced Japanese: Politics and International Relations (convenor).

Postgraduate

EAST5021M Japan

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.