Daqing Yang is an Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at the George Washington University in USA, A native of China, he graduated from Nanjing University, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he specialized in the history of modern Japan. His research interests include colonialism, science and technology, and memories and legacies of World War II. Between 2004-2007, Daqing Yang served as a Historical Consultant to The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group at the U.S. National Archives. He is a founding co-director of the Memory and Reconciliation in the Asia Pacific program based in the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at GWU.
Recent publications included two co-edited books: Memory, Identity, and Commemorations of World War II: Anniversary Politics in Asia Pacific (2018, with Mike Mochizuki), and Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War (2021, with Andrea Wirsching et. al.) as well as “The Paradox of Reconciliation: Early Post-War Chinese-Japanese Experience in Regional and Comparative Perspective,” in Reconciliation after War: Historical Perspectives on Transitional Justice (2021).