Professor

Department of Political Science, 0521

University of California-San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0521

TEL: (619) 534-7376
FAX:(619) 538-1179
FAX2:(619) 534-7130
E-MAIL: ghoston@myesa.com

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  modernization; sogo shosha (general trading firms)
• HISTORY
  Meiji Restoration; prewar political history; social history
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  communism; comparative politics; domestic politics; foreign policy and international relations; nationalism; political economy; political protest; political thought
• RELIGION
  Christianity; comparative religions; religion and politics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, 1980-93.

IN JAPAN: 1979 - dissertation research; 1960-62 - childhood; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan (Princeton University Press,1994); Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan (Princeton University Press, 1986); "Between Theory and Practice: Marxist Thought and the Politics of the Japanese Socialist Party," Studies in Comparative Communism (1987); "The State, Modernity, and the Fate of Liberalism in Prewar Japan," Journal of Asian Studies (1992).