![]() In addition to several ongoing projects related to these two books, I am increasingly looking at the uses of the past in Japan, China, and the West from a transnational and comparative perspective. I have just completed a second book manuscript, co-authored with Ran Zwigenberg at the Pennsylvania State University, that is a history of Japanese castles in the modern period, from the 1860s to the present. My first book, Inventing the Way of the Samurai (Oxford, 2014), examined the development of bushido in modern Japan. Much of my work deals with the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ![]() ![]() My recent research interests have related to the use of premodern symbols and ideas in the formation of modern nationalism. Oleg, what are your research interests and what projects you are working on now? Oleg teaches East Asian History at the University of York in the UK. We asked Senior Lecturer Oleg Benesch, a 2017 International Placement Scheme (IPS) fellow of the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), his research interests and his fellowship experience at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto. An interview with research fellows visiting NIHU – Senior Lecturer Oleg Benesch ![]()
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