Morris-Suzuki, Tessa

Tessa Morris-Suzuki (born 29 October 1951 in England), born as Tessa Morris, is a historian of modern Japan and North Korea. She is Professor in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, the Australian National University. She is also a coordinator of an open access journal ''AsiaRights'', and has served as president of the Asian Studies Association of Australia. She was the winner of the Academic Prize of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2013.

Early life

Born in England, she obtained her B.A. in Russian history in University of Bristol, M.A. and Ph.D. in Economic history of Japan in University of Bath. She lived and worked in Japan before emigrating to Australia in 1981. Tessa Morris married to the Japanese writer Hiroshi Suzuki and incorporated her husband's surname into her double surname. In turn, her husband incorporated her surname into his pen name as ''Morisu Hiroshi''.

Academic career

Her research focuses on Japan's frontiers and minority communities and on questions of historical memory in East Asia. She is the author of ''Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War''. Her two most recent books are ''To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred Year Journey Through China and Korea'', and ''Borderline Japan: Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Post-war Era'' (both 2010).

Awards and honors

In 2012, she was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship.

Publications

*''Tennô to Amerika'' (The Emperor and America, coauthored), Shûeisha, 2010
*''Borderline Japan: Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Postwar Era'', Cambridge University Press, 2010
*''To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred Year Journey Through China and Korea'', Rowman and Littlefield, 2010
*''Beyond Computopia: Information, Automation and Democracy in Japan'', Kegan Paul International, 1988.
*''The Technological Transformation of Japan'', Cambridge University Press, 1994. (also published in Chinese and Korean translations)
*''Re-Inventing Japan: Time Space, Nation'', M. E. Sharpe, 1998. (also published in Spanish translation)
*''Demokurashii no Bôken'' (Ventures in Democracy, co-authored), Shûeisha, 2004.
*''The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History'', Verso, 2005. (also published in Japanese translation)
*''Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War'', Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. (also published in Japanese translation)

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1951 births
Living people
Academic staff of the Australian National University
Historians of Japan
English historians
Australian women academics
British emigrants to Australia