Sun Ge

Sun Ge is a Researcher (Professor) and the Assistant Director of the Research Group in the Comparative Literature Group at the Literature Research Institute of the China Academy of Social Studies, in Beijing China. A academic of standing since 1988 in the People’s Republic of China, Dr. Sun received an additional Ph.D. in Politics and Law in 2003, from Tokyo Metropolitan University, in Tokyo Japan.

Professor Sun is a prominent figure in Critical Asian Studies and Comparative History of Ideas. Building arguments around the dilemma that narrates Asia in the context of modernity and globalization, her essays directly deal with a series of contemporary provocative issues, such as Japanese right wing history textbooks, assessment of the Nanjing atrocities, official visits to Yasukuni Shrine, and the lawsuits against veteran witness Shiro Azuma. These essays have made great impacts in China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea, and some of them have been translated into English for the journal Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (v.1, n.1 &2, 2000). She is also a founder of the intellectual forum "The Japan/China Knowledge Community." Holding multiple symposiums for six years, this "Community" opened one of the few common Asian intellectual spaces and has been a powerful influence and an important testimony of both the challenges and opportunities in the inter-Asian cross-cultural studies.

While in residence as a Rockefeller Fellow, she continued her work on her ongoing project “War, trauma and the construction of Northeastern Asia as a region.” In addition, she led two critical reading groups for graduate students; one in Chinese and the other in Japanese. Dr. Sun was in residence at the University of Washington during the Spring Quarter of the 2005-2006 school year.