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Bill Mihalopoulos

Lecturer in Asia Pacific Studies

School of Humanities, Language and Global Studies

Japanese History and Culture, Gender, labour and migration in Asia Pacific, World History, Japanese film/documentary

Dr Bill Mihalopoulos is a Lecturer in Asia Pacific Studies at the School of Language and Global Studies at UCLan. He has a wealth of international teaching experience having worked in Australia, Japan, Korea, U.A.E and United States of America. His area of research and expertise are in Japnese history, imperialism in East and Southeast Asia, and migration and gender in the Asia Pacific region.

2001 PhD, New York Universty (Modern Japanese History) 1995 M. Litt, University of Cambridge Oriental Studies) 1988 MA Japanese History, Kyushu University 1983 BA (Hons History and Japanese), University of Adelaide

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  1. Mihalopoulos, Bill orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6112-6094 (2017) Imamura Shōhei: Betwixt fiction and documentary − an introduction. Asian Cinema, 28 (1). pp. 93-100. ISSN 1059-440X
  2. Shōhei, Imamura (2017) Betwixt fiction and documentary. Asian Cinema, 28 (1). pp. 101-105. ISSN 1059-440X
  3. Mihalopoulos, Bill orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6112-6094 (2015) Statehood, Gender and Japanese Migration to Singapore, 1890-1920. In: Transnational Japan as History. Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series . Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 145-166. ISBN 9781137568779
  4. Mihalopoulos, Bill orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6112-6094 (2011) Sex in Japan's Globalization, 1870–1930: Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation-Building. Perspectives in Economic and Social History (13). Routledge, London. ISBN 978-1848932012
  5. Mihalopoulos, Bill orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6112-6094 (2018) Gendered Japan: Law, Empire, and Modern Girls on the Go. The Journal of Asian Studies, 77 (2). pp. 526-535. ISSN 0021-91
  6. Mihalopoulos, Bill orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6112-6094 (2019) Documenting a People yet to Be Named: The History of a Bar Hostess. Arts, 8 (44). ISSN 2076-0752
  7. Mihalopoulos, Bill orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6112-6094 (2019) Time out of Joint: Shohei Imamura and the Search for an "Other Japan". In: Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, pp. 229-245. ISBN 9781474411813
  8. Mihalopoulos, Bill orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6112-6094 (2019) Japan Forum Podcast with Harry Harootunian. [Audio]
  9. Mihalopoulos, Bill orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6112-6094 (2019) Podcast with Miki Dezaki Director Of Shusenjo The Main Battleground Of Comfort Women. [Audio]
  10. Mihalopoulos, Bill orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6112-6094 (2020) Rethinking the Maria Luz Incident: methodological cosmopolitanism and Meiji Japan. In: New Frontiers in Japanese Studies. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series . CRC Press. ISBN 9780367406806
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