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Book Launch: Kate McDonald’s Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan
October 9, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Come Celebrate the publication of Kate McDonald’s, Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan (University of California Press, 2017)
Featuring:
Ken Ruoff
Professor of History, Director / Center for Japanese Studies, Portland State University
Sabine Fruhstuck
Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies, Director/ East Asia Center, UCSB
Kate McDonald
Professor of History, UCSB