Political History | Diplomatic History | Modern Japan and Asia
Jeremy A. Yellen is a historian based in Hong Kong. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University, and is currently an associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Jeremy’s research focuses on modern Japan’s international, diplomatic, and political history during the 1930s and 1940s. He also maintains a strong interest in the history of international relations and the historiography of modern war. He is the author of The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War (Cornell University Press, 2019), and Japan at War, 1914-1952 (Routledge, 2025), and his research articles have appeared in a wide variety of journals including the Journal of Contemporary History, the Journal of Japanese Studies, the Pacific Historical Review, Modern Asian Studies, The Diplomat, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, and the International History Review.
