Andrea REVELANT

Andrea Revelant is an Associate Professor of Japanese History in the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His research focuses on policy-making, popular representation and mass communication in imperial Japan. He is currently working on the political discourse on China in the Japanese press of the interwar years. He is the author of Sviluppo economico e disuguaglianza (Economic Development and Inequality, 2016), Il Giappone moderno (Modern Japan, 2018) and Il Giappone contemporaneo (Contemporary Japan, 2024). He has published in several journals, including Modern Asian Studies, European Journal of East Asian Studies and Asiatische Studien. His work has also appeared in edited volumes, such as Japan and the Great War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Chiang Kai-Shek and His Time and The Historian’s Gaze (both Ca’ Foscari University Press, 2017, 2023). Since 2023 he has been a managing editor for the International Encyclopedia of the First World War 1914-1918-online.

He has held visiting positions at Meiji (2011), Keio (2012, 2017, 2021-2025), Waseda (2013, 2014, 2018), Sophia (2015) and Aoyama Gakuin (2019) Universities in Tokyo. Under the Erasmus programme, he taught in Geneva, Heidelberg and Berlin. He obtained is PhD in Venice after a two-year research stay at Waseda University.

Since 2023, Andrea Revelant heads the Venice research unit for the EU-funded national project “Imperial Entanglements: Latecomer Colonial Empires and the Politics of Comparison (1880s-1940s)”

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