Dr Hiroko Willcock

BA, PhD

Senior Lecturer

Research expertise

Comparative studies of Japan and China, history of ideas, Japanese syncretism, the development of Japanese language

1989 'Japanese Influence on Chinese Novel: Dong Ou nuhaojie', The Transaction of the Asiatic Society in Japan, fourth series, vol.4, pp.67-86.
1995 'Japanese Modernization and the Emergence of New Fiction in Early Twentieth Century China: A study of Liang Qichao', Modern Asian Studies, 25/4:817-840
1997 'Meiji Japan and the Late Qing Political Novel', Journal of Oriental Studies, 33/1:1-28
2000 'Traditional Learning, Western Thought and the Sapporo Agricultural College: A Case Study of Early Meiji Acculturation', Modern Asian Studies, 34/4:977-1018
2003 'Advent of a Meiji Prophet and Carlylean Man of Letters: Uchimura Kanzo 1885-1896', Asian Cultural Studies, vol.29, 2003, pp.27-39
2004 'Bunka henyoki ni okeru nihonjin no shiko tenkei no ichi kosatsu' (Japanese Syncretism and a Characteristic Japanese Thought Pattern: A case study), Journal of Japanese Language and Culture, vol.4, 2004, pp.207-225
2004 'Nihonjin no wa no gainen to sono fuhensei: bunmeiron no kanten kara', Proceedings, Journal of Japanese Language and Culture, May 2004, pp.195-202
2007 'A Japanese Acculturation Pattern: The Affinities of Values in the Conflux of the Old and the New',Chapter 5, (Rein Raud, ed.) Japan and Asian Modernities, London: Kegan Paul, 304pp.
2008 The Japanese Political Thought of Uchimura Kanzo: Synthesizing Bushido, Christianity, Nationalism and Liberalism, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 404pp.