Joyman Lee
My dissertation is entitled ‘The study of economics in Republican China: ties with the state and with Japan, 1920-1935’. It uses the study of economics as a lens to explore Chinese elites’ attempt to introduce ‘modernity’ in this volatile period, focusing both on internalist dimensions and on the extent to which economic thinking influenced decision-making by the Nanjing government and by Japanese imperialist factors in China. Jonathan Spence is my advisor.
Currently in my 4th year, this year I am funded by the Richard U. Light Fellowship to undertake one year of full-time study in Japanese at the Inter-University Center, Yokohama. Raised in London, England, I graduated with a starred double first in History (BA Hons., 2006, MA, 2010) from Clare College, University of Cambridge and was awarded and declined a Kennedy Scholarship, Britain’s national memorial to John F. Kennedy. I have published reviews in the Economic History Review and the Historical Journal. Primarily a twentieth-century historian, my interest includes both the histories of modern China and Japan, and I also have a minor field in Latin American history.
