Aaron William Moore
Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations, University of Edinburgh
I am the Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations at the University of Edinburgh and a modern historian of China and Japan. I also work in modern literature. I am a 2014 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner. I am a comparative and transnational historian working with documents in Japanese, Chinese and Russian. I predominantly teach modern history of East Asia. My work includes studies of war diaries, the history of childhood and youth and speculative science writing and science fiction.
EXPs by Aaron William Moore
One of the reasons why it is useful to look at the diaries and overall life writings of ordinary soldiers is that it helps us understand how people like us got involved in supporting modern warfare.
The best reason to turn our attention to civilians when studying World War II is that, quite frankly, they are the ones who are most like ourselves.
I started my research on science fiction in the early 20th century in China, Japan and the Soviet Union because I was interested in why their stories were so different. How do we explain this difference of attitude toward the future?