Louise Young is an author, historian of modern Japan, and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then her M.A. and Ph. D. from Columbia University.
She has acted as a visiting researcher to Tokyo University, Waseda University, and Kyoto University.
Books
- Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (1998) (won the John K. Fairbank Prize and the Hiromi Arisawa prize)
- Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan (2013)
References
- "Young, Louise – Department of History – UW–Madison". history.wisc.edu. 162. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
- Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - "Review of Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism". The Historian. 62 (1): 120. 1999. JSTOR 24450546.
- Nakano, Yoichi (1999). "Review of Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 30 (1): 171–172. doi:10.1162/jinh.1999.30.1.171. JSTOR 207035. S2CID 142719667.
- Matsusaka, Yoshihisa Tak (1999). "Review of Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism". The International History Review. 21 (1): 204–206. JSTOR 40108962.
- Tipton, Elise (2014). "Book Reviews: Louise Young, Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan". Japanese Studies. 34 (1): 101–103. doi:10.1080/10371397.2014.908486. S2CID 143450038.
- Watt, Lori (2015-07-30). "Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan by Louise Young (review)". The Journal of Japanese Studies. 41 (2): 406–410. doi:10.1353/jjs.2015.0052. ISSN 1549-4721. S2CID 141564722.