Hess Christian

(HESS CHRISTIAN)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts, Sophia University

Degree: B.A.(University of California Davis)
M.A.(University of California San Diego)
Ph.D.(University of California San Diego)

Contact information: cahesssophia.ac.jp
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9581-428X
J-GLOBAL ID: 201301029964577128
researchmap Member ID: 7000004349

Modern Chinese History, Sino-Japanese Relations, Manchuria, Urban History

(Subject of research)
Chinese Urban History

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / History - Asia/Africa /

Major Research History

Apr, 2014 - 2024

Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Graduate Program in Global Studies, Sophia University

Major Education

Jun, 1999 - Dec, 2006

Ph.D. Modern Chinese History, History, University of California at San Diego

Committee Memberships

Sep, 2023 - Present

President, Asian Studies Conference Japan, Association for Asian Studies
2013 - Present

Executive Committee Member,, Asian Studies Conference Japan
2025 - 2027

Council of Conferences Committee, Association for Asian Studies

Major Awards

2016

Special Grant for Academic Research in Priority Areas, “Culinary Globalization from Below: Historical and Sociological Approaches to the Japanese Food Boom in China and the USA”, Sophia University

Global Japanese Cuisine Project, Sophia Institute of Comparative Culture

Papers

Global Food Fashions and Their Cultural Intermediaries

Lenka Vyletalova, James Farrer, Chuanfei Wang, Christian A. Hess

The Global Japanese Restaurant, 117-163, May 31, 2023
Japantown Restaurants:

Christian A. Hess, James Farrer, David L. Wank, Mônica R. de Carvalho, Lenka Vyletalova, Chuanfei Wang

The Global Japanese Restaurant, 67-116, May 31, 2023
Imperialism and Its Culinary Legacies:

Chuanfei Wang, James Farrer, Christian A. Hess

The Global Japanese Restaurant, 21-66, May 31, 2023
Japanese culinary mobilities: The multiple globalizations of Japanese cuisine

James Farrer, Christian Hess, Mônica R. de Carvalho, Chuanfei Wang, David Wank

Routledge Handbook of Food in Asia, 39-57, Feb 25, 2019
Sino-Soviet City: Dalian between Socialist Worlds, 1945-1955

Christian Hess

JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY, 44(1) 9-25, Jan, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Japanese Culinary Mobilities Research: The Globalization of the Japanese Restaurant

James Farrer, Chuanfei Wang, David Wank, Monica de Carvalho, Lenka Vyletalova, Christian Hess

Food and Food Ingredients in Japan, 222(3) 257-266, 2017
Gateway to Manchuria: The Port City of Dalian under Russian, Japanese and Chinese Control, 1898-1950

Christian A. Hess

Comparativ – Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 22(5) 47-59, Jan 1, 2013 Peer-reviewedInvited
From Colonial Port to Socialist Metropolis: Imperialism and the Making of New Dalian

Christian A. Hess

Urban History Research, 29 271-292, 2013 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead author
From colonial port to socialist metropolis: Imperialist legacies and the making of 'New Dalian'

Hess, C.A.

Urban History, 38(3) 373-390, Nov 1, 2011 Peer-reviewedInvited

Major Misc.

[Book Review] William Sewell, Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun 1905-1945 (University of British Columbia Press, 2019)

Christian Hess

Twentieth Century China, 46(1), Jan, 2021 Invited

Major Books and Other Publications

“Culinary Mobilities: The Multiple Globalizations of Japanese Cuisine” in Routledge handbook of food in Asia (Leong-Salobir, ed.)

James Farrer, Monica De Carvalho, Chuanfei Wang, David Wank (Role: Joint author, “Culinary Mobilities: The Multiple Globalizations of Japanese Cuisine” with James Farrer; Monica De Carvalho; Chuanfei Wang; David Wank)

Routledge, 2019 (ISBN: 9781138669918)

Major Presentations

Modern War and the Chinese City: Urban Development Between Total War, Civil War, and Cold War

Christian Hess

World War Two and Urban Reconstruction in the Socialist World, University of Leicester. https://citiesatwar.omeka.net/about, 2020

Teaching Experience

2010

Certificate in Academic and Professional Practice (University of Warwick)

Professional Memberships

Major Research Projects

Culinary Globalization from Below: Historical and Sociological Approaches to the Japanese Food Boom in China and the USA

Sophia University, 2016 - 2018

Christian Hess, James Farrer, David Wank, Mônica Carvalho, Lenka Vyletalova, and Chuanfei Wang

Major Academic Activities

Chair and Discussant, “Authoritarianism in East Asia Revisited: Past and Present, ”

Panel moderator, Session chair, etc.

Asian Studies Conference Japan, Tokyo., Jul 2, 2022

Other

Reflections on China: The Historical Context

2008

University of Warwick, Warwick icast series 2008. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/icast/archive/s2week24/chinahess
Doing Chinese History in the 21st Century: New Challenges, New Opportunities

2008

Talk delivered at the inaugural Ideas Café forum, University of Warwick, May 15, 2008.

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