REMINDER: The deadline for the 2019 Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize competition is soon approaching. Translations should be submitted by the deadline of August 1, 2019. The 2018 prizes were awarded to Dawn Lawson for Nakajima Shōen’s A Famous Flower in Mountain Seclusion (Sankan no meika, 1889) and to Max Zimmerman for the short story, “An Artificial Heart” (Jinkō Shinzō, 1936) by Kosakai Fuboku. For further information please see the Cornell Asian Studies Department website.
Articles by Peter Matanle« Back to listPeter Matanle is Senior Lecturer and Director of Research and Innovation at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. His research and teaching interests are in the social and cultural geography of the Asia-Pacific, focusing on Japan. He has published widely on the theory and practice of lifetime employment, representations of gender in the workplace in popular culture, and regional social and environmental change under ageing and depopulation. His most recent publication on the latter subject formed the basis of this article. Contact: p.matanle@sheffield.ac.uk Twitter: @matapet |
