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SONODA Setsuko

Department / Course College of International Relations Department of International Relations

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of International Relations

Business career
1.	2021/04 ～	Professor │ College of International Relations │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2024/09/26 ～	Academic Visitor │ │ The Oxford China Centre, the University of Oxford
3.	2019/04 ～ 2021/03	Professor │ School of Economics and Management │ University of Hyogo
4.	2014/04 ～ 2019/03	Professor │ School of Economics │ University of Hyogo
5.	2016/03 ～ 2017/03	Visiting Scholar │ Oxford Centre for Global History, Faculty of History │ University of Oxford
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Research activities
1.		The Kobe Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas
2.		The Japan Society for the Studies of Chinese Overseas
3.		JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
4.		ASSOCIATION FOR STUDIES OF CHINESE SOCIETY AND CULTURE
5.		THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR MIGRATION STUDIES
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Present specialized field
Area studies, History of Asia and Africa, Historical studies in general (Keyword：Overseas Chinese,Transnationalism,Global History,Migration,Chinese Modern History,Chinese Contemporary History,The Americas)

Books
1.	2015	Chinatowns in Japan and the WorldKomei Go and Shinichi Takahashi (eds.) Nankin-machi and Overseas Chinese in Kobe │ ,pp.255-266
2.	2014	張応龍主編《広東華僑与中外関係》
3.	2013	Yung Wing: A Marginal Man, Social Advance between China and the United StatesYujiro Murata, Cho Kyoendal, Keiichi Harada and Tsuneo Yasuda (eds.), The Asian Intellectuals in East Asia: Volume 1, Tradition and Civilization in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century │ ,pp.31-47
4.	2009	Overseas Chinese in the Americas and Modern China: Transnational Migration in the Nineteenth Century │ ,pp.1-350

Papers
1.	2025	The Chinese Community in Peru: A Historical Analysis of Cross-bordering People and Politics │ Iberoamericana │ ,pp.67-99
2.	2021/02	The Chinese in the British West Indies and Their Regional Relationships, 1900-1949 │ Iberoamericana │ ,pp.49-72
3.	2019/12	Achieving Economic Success and Social Mobility: The Chinese Community in Trinidad, British Caribbean before 1949 │ Special Issue “Chinese Passages and the Global Making of Frontiers, Borderlands, and Borders,” Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire │ 54 (3),pp.315-344
4.	2016/09	History of Raising Self-Awareness and Historiography for Strengthening Connectedness: The Vancouver Chinese in Multicultural Canada │ Special Issue"Migration and the Remaking of Ethnic/ Micro-Regional Connectedness,"Senri Ethnological Studies │ 93,pp.15-48
5.	2014	Feature Article : The 10th Anniversary Symposium of the Establishment of the JSSCO"Studies of Chinese Overseas : Retrospect and Prospect" │ 華僑華人研究 │ ,pp.56-92
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2019/11/20	China’s Overseas Chinese Affairs in the British West Indies in the1930s and 40s: A Historical Analysis of the Chinese in Trinidad
2.	2018/11/11	Achieving Economic Success and Emerging as Allied Nationals: A Historical Study of the Chinese in British Caribbean
3.	2017/10/07	Voices from the Chinese Indentured Labourers in Spanish Colonies: Reports by China’s First Official Investigations in South America in the 1870s
4.	2017/09/08	The Transnationalism of the National Salvation Activities by the Chinese in Port of Spain, Trinidad, during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45
5.	2016/09/09	China's Transnational Politics and Disputes among the Overseas Chinese in Port of Spain, Trinidad, 1930-1970
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Works
1.	2025/02/20	Diaspora Chinese and Modern China: Transnationalism and Class of the Chinese of the British West Indies, the 1880s–1970s. (Oxford, UK)
2.	2018/10/30	Interconnections between Nation-States and Chinese in the Americas in the Twentieth Century (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcons, Lima)
3.	2018/10/29	New Themes in Transpacific History: Interconnections between Chinese Transnational Institutions and Nation-States and Chinese Communities in the Americas in the Nineteenth Century (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcons, Lima)
4.	2017/02/17	At the Edge of Empires: the Modern Nation, Ex-Colonial Milieu and Transnationalism of the Chinese in Port of Spain, Trinidad, from the 1930s to the 1960s
5.	2016/10/31	At the Edge of the Modern Chinese Nation and Ex-Colonial Milieu
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Winning science prize
1.	2011/03	Murao Scholarship Foundation the Incentive Award of the MSF
2.	2010/11	The Japan Society for the Studies of Chinese Overseas the Incentive Award of the JSSCO
3.	2009/03	The University of Tokyo Press The 50th Grant for Academic Publication of University of Tokyo Press
4.	2008/12	Kobe Women’s University The 2nd Kobe Women’s University President Award
5.	2008/10	Asia Pacific Form and Awaji Conference Japan The 7th Iue Asia Pacific Research Prize

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research -KAKENHI-
1.	2018/04 ～ 2023/03	A Study of the Transnational History of the Chinese Caribbean in British Colonies and under the Chinese Nationalist Party's Policies in the Mid-Twentieth Century │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)
2.	2014/04 ～ 2017/03	A Historical Study of the Transmigration, Mobility and Community Formation of the Chinese in the Caribbean │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)
3.	2013/04 ～ 2018/03	Transnational Mobility and Occupations of Overseas Japanese in the Pacific Rim │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A)
4.	2013/04 ～ 2016/03	Structural Reorganization of Postwar Chinese Society in Japan from an International Comparative Point of View │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)
5.	2012/04 ～ 2015/03	A Comparative Study on the Remaking of Connectedness among Migrant Populations Living in a Multicultural Landscape │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)
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Achievements of joint.Funded research
1.	2021/01 ～ 2023/12	Recuperación de la memoria histórica de las migraciones chinas a Costa Rica │ International Joint Research │ Proyecto de Recuperación de la memoria histórica de las migraciones chinas a Costa Rica