Person

Ishikawa, Yoshihiro

1963

Yoshihiro ISHIKAWA completed his graduate work at Kyoto University and is an associate professor in its Institute for Research in Humanities. He has also been a chief of its Research Center for Modern and Contemporary China since April 2007. Prior to working at Kyoto University, he taught at Kobe University in 1997-2001, and was invited to the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, as Member in 2001-2002. In addition to his major research on the early Chinese Communist Party, he has followed the emergence of Party historiography in the PRC and is currently investigating socialist culture in post-1949 China.