Dr Ian Rapley
Darlithydd mewn Hanes Dwyrain Asia
Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd
- RapleyI@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 29208 74260
- Adeilad John Percival , Ystafell 4.31, Rhodfa Colum, Caerdydd, CF10 3EU
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
Trosolwyg
I am a historian of modern Japan with interests in the intersections between intellectual, culural, and social history.
Research interests
- Twentieth century Japanese cultural and intellectual history
- Transnational movements, especially across Asia
- Local history
- Language and history
Grants and Awards
- UK Arts and Humanities Research Council International Placement Scheme (ARHC IPS) fellow at the National Institute for the Humanities' International Japanese Studies Research Centre (日文研), Kyoto, Summer 2015
- 4th conference on Inter-Asian Connections, Koc University, 2013, funded by the SSRC et al.
- European Association for Japanese Studies Doctoral Workshop, Tallinn, 2011
- 4th Workshop on the Encounters of Young Scholars on Asian Studies, Hong Kong & Guangzhou, funded by Hong Kong University
- Full doctoral grant, UK Arts and Humanities Research Council 2009-2013.
- Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Scholar, 1999-2001
Presentations and Engagement
- Japan: A land of Beautiful objects, National Galleries Scotland, lecture in support of exhibition of sculpture by Karla Black and Kishio Suga, January 2017
- Beyond the glimpse of the unfamiliar: travel and the history of the senses in 19th century Japan, Conference on Tourism and Japan, Kaunas, Lithuania, Winter 2016
- ‘Vasily Eroshenko and Sino-Japanese Connections’, Beyond the Sinosphere. Modalities of Interwar Globalisation: Internationalism and Indigenizationamong East Asian Marxists, Christians, and Buddhists, 1919-1945, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, Germany (Volkswagen Zeitung), July 2016.
- The making of a transnational linguistic community, Language, Power and Identity in Asia: Creating and Crossing Language Boundaries, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, March 2016.
- Reimagining Japan's Position on the World Stage, Japan Society, London, October 2015.
- Panel coordinator and memeber, Language that Unites – Akita Ujaku and the Making of International Networks, Panel Title: 'Transnational Practice and Modern Japan', 15th EAJS International Conference, University of Ljubljana.
- A Language for Asia: Transnational Esperanto Networks in pre-1945 Asia, Inter-Asian Connections IV, Social Science Research Council, Koc University, Istanbul, October 2013
- Imperial Internationalism: Esperanto in 1930s Japan, British Joint East Asian Studies Conference, Nottingham University, September 2013
- Tohoku Modern: Esperanto in a Rural Setting, Oxford Japan History Workshop, November 2011
- An Overview of Esperanto in Early Twentieth Century Japan, British Association for Japanese Studies, Oxford, September 2011
- Conceptualizing Esperanto in Prewar Japan, European Association for Japanese Studies Doctoral Workshop, Tallinn, Estonia, August 2011
- Esperanto in 1920s Japan, 4th Workshop on the Encounters of Young Scholars on Asian Studies, Hong Kong/ Guangzhou, January 2011
You can also find me on academia.edu (http://cardiff.academia.edu/IanRapley) or on Twitter (http://twitter.com/I_Rapley with the usual disclaimers about tweeting in a personal capacity, RTs not being endorsements, etc etc)
Cyhoeddiad
2020
- Rapley, I. 2020. Fermita vivo pro epidemio. La Movado 836
- Rapley, I. 2020. Sekaigo: Esperanto, international language, and the transnational dimension to Japan’s linguistic modernity. Japan Forum 32(4), pp. 511-530. (10.1080/09555803.2019.1594342)
2019
- Rapley, I. 2019. A friendly disposition and orderly demeanour: Sources and resources on the Japanese Treaty Ports (Review). [Online]. Leiden: IIAS. Available at: https://newbooks.asia/review/apanese-treaty-ports
2018
- Rapley, I. 2018. The fractured transnational lens: motives, representations and historiographies in Deguchi Onisaburō’s 1924 Mongolian expedition. Journal of Northeast Asian History 15(1)
2017
- Rapley, I. 2017. Brexit Signifas Brexit. La Movado 2017(1)
2016
- Rapley, I. 2016. Talking to the world: Esperanto and popular internationalism in Prewar Japan. Japan Society Proceedings 152, pp. 76-89.
2015
- Rapley, I. 2015. A language for Asia? Transnational encounters in the Japanese Esperanto movement, 1906-1928. In: Iacobelli, P., Leary, D. and Shinnosuke, T. eds. Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, and Social Movements. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
2013
- Rapley, I. 2013. When global and local culture meet: Esperanto in 1920s rural Japan. Language Problems and Language Planning 37(2), pp. 179-196. (10.1075/lplp.37.2.04rap)
Articles
- Rapley, I. 2020. Fermita vivo pro epidemio. La Movado 836
- Rapley, I. 2020. Sekaigo: Esperanto, international language, and the transnational dimension to Japan’s linguistic modernity. Japan Forum 32(4), pp. 511-530. (10.1080/09555803.2019.1594342)
- Rapley, I. 2018. The fractured transnational lens: motives, representations and historiographies in Deguchi Onisaburō’s 1924 Mongolian expedition. Journal of Northeast Asian History 15(1)
- Rapley, I. 2017. Brexit Signifas Brexit. La Movado 2017(1)
- Rapley, I. 2016. Talking to the world: Esperanto and popular internationalism in Prewar Japan. Japan Society Proceedings 152, pp. 76-89.
- Rapley, I. 2013. When global and local culture meet: Esperanto in 1920s rural Japan. Language Problems and Language Planning 37(2), pp. 179-196. (10.1075/lplp.37.2.04rap)
Book sections
- Rapley, I. 2015. A language for Asia? Transnational encounters in the Japanese Esperanto movement, 1906-1928. In: Iacobelli, P., Leary, D. and Shinnosuke, T. eds. Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, and Social Movements. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Websites
- Rapley, I. 2019. A friendly disposition and orderly demeanour: Sources and resources on the Japanese Treaty Ports (Review). [Online]. Leiden: IIAS. Available at: https://newbooks.asia/review/apanese-treaty-ports
- Rapley, I. 2020. Sekaigo: Esperanto, international language, and the transnational dimension to Japan’s linguistic modernity. Japan Forum 32(4), pp. 511-530. (10.1080/09555803.2019.1594342)
- Rapley, I. 2018. The fractured transnational lens: motives, representations and historiographies in Deguchi Onisaburō’s 1924 Mongolian expedition. Journal of Northeast Asian History 15(1)
- Rapley, I. 2016. Talking to the world: Esperanto and popular internationalism in Prewar Japan. Japan Society Proceedings 152, pp. 76-89.
- Rapley, I. 2015. A language for Asia? Transnational encounters in the Japanese Esperanto movement, 1906-1928. In: Iacobelli, P., Leary, D. and Shinnosuke, T. eds. Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, and Social Movements. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Ymchwil
Mae gen i ddiddordeb mewn amrywiaeth o bynciau yn hanes modern Japaneaidd ac Asiaidd sydd i gyd yn drawswladol eang eu natur.
Canolbwyntiodd fy ngwaith cyntaf ar iaith mewn lleoliad trawswladol, gan ddadlau bod dewis a datblygiad ieithoedd a ddefnyddir mewn cyd-destunau rhyngwladol a thrawswladol yn ddadlennol ac yn bwysig. Roedd cenadaethau diplomyddol, masnach ym mhorthladdoedd y cytundeb, lledaenu ymchwil wyddonol, rhwydweithiau comiwnyddol radical - yr holl gyfarfyddiadau hyn a mwy ar wahân i ddigwyddiadau croesi ffiniau a oedd yn gofyn am ddewis a defnyddio iaith i hwyluso cyfnewid a dealltwriaeth. Er ein bod yn aml yn anwybyddu'r cyfrwng y cynhaliwyd sgyrsiau ac ysgrifennu llythyrau, er mwyn canolbwyntio ar gynnwys y cyfarfodydd hynny, mae edrych yn fanylach ar ddewis iaith a defnydd iaith yn dod â mewnwelediadau ychwanegol i natur cyfarfyddiadau rhyngwladol.
Yn 2019-20 fi oedd prif ymchwilydd y prosiect AHRC/ESRC, The Japanese Scientist In Japan And In The World, a ariannwyd gan yr AHRC/ESRC, sy'n ceisio datblygu hanes gwyddoniaeth Japaneaidd mewn cyd-destun byd-eang, gan archwilio'r heriau a wynebir gan wyddonwyr o Japan wrth dreiddio i rwydweithiau ymarfer gwyddonol y Gorllewin ac wrth ddiffinio sefyllfa drostynt eu hunain yng nghymdeithas Japan. Mae fy ymchwil bersonol yn ceisio edrych ar ddatblygiad ffiseg Japan trwy fywgraffiad dau enillydd gwobr Nobel: Yukawa Hideki a Tomonaga Shinichiro.
Yn olaf, mae gen i ddiddordeb hefyd mewn teithio a chyfarfyddiadau rhyngwladol. Mae'r ymchwil hon yn canolbwyntio ar brofiadau teithwyr y Gorllewin i Japan ddiwedd y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg a'r ugeinfed ganrif a rôl cyfarfyddiadau anffurfiol wrth lunio cysylltiadau rhyngwladol rhwng pwerau Japan a'r Gorllewin. Trwy edrych ar deithwyr ac ysgrifennu teithio, mae gen i ddiddordeb mewn adeiladu syniadau poblogaidd o Japan, rôl profiad personol yn hyn, a'r ffyrdd y dylanwadodd y rhain ar gysylltiadau rhyngwladol mwy confensiynol.
Addysgu
Ar hyn o bryd rwy'n dysgu'r modiwlau annibynnol dwy flynedd nesaf:
- Chwilio am Modern Asiaidd: Japan o'r 19eg a'r 20fed Ganrif (HS1768, Blwyddyn U / Graddio Dau)
- Cipolwg ar yr anghyfarwydd: Teithwyr i Japan (HS1858, U/Grad Blwyddyn Tri)
Rwyf hefyd yn addysgu ac yn cynnull modiwl hanes blwyddyn gyntaf gyntaf y flwyddyn i raddedigion:
- Gwneud Hanesion Byd-eang: Asia a'r Gorllewin (HS1108)
Yn y blynyddoedd blaenorol rwyf hefyd wedi darlithio ac addysgu seminarau (ac efallai y byddaf yn gwneud eto!) ar y modiwlau israddedig canlynol:
- Gwneud y Byd Modern (HS1105)
- Hanes mewn Ymarfer (HS1107)
- Dulliau o Hanes
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
Ar hyn o bryd mae gennyf ddau fyfyriwr ymchwil:
- Michael Trull - 'hanes diplomyddol newydd' o gysylltiadau Eingl-Japaneaidd (PhD)
- Alec Batty - Caplaniaid yn y Dwyrain Pell yn ystod yr Ail Ryfel Byd (Mphil)