Andrew Gordon is an American

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who is a scholar of modern Japanese history. He is a Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at

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and former chair of the Department of

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there from 2004 to 2007. He was Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies from 1998 through 2004. Gordon completed his PhD in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard University in 1981. Following the completion of his graduate studies he has taught history at both

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and at

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. He is one of the leading experts on Japanese labor history but has lately shifted to other fields. Gordon's 2003 ''A Modern History of Japan'' is now one of the standard textbooks on the topic and has been translated into Japanese. A revised edition of the work was released in 2009. Gordon has more recently been engaged in research on the history of the sewing machine and the making of the modern consumer in 20th century Japan. In October 2020, the National Institutes for the Humanities of Japan (NIHU) awarded Gordon the 2020 International Prize for Japanese Studies.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Andrew Gordon,

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encompasses roughly 30 works in 90+ publications in five languages and 6,000+ library holdings. *''A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present (Fourth Edition).'' (2019) *''Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan.'' (2011) *''Nihonjin ga shiranai Matsuzaka mejaa kakumei'' (Matsuzaka's Unknown Major League Revolution) Asahi shinsho (2007) *''A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present.'' (2003) *''The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan.'' (1998) *''Postwar Japan as History'' (ed). (1993) . *''Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan.'' (1992) *''The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853–1955.'' (1985) .

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External links

Personal website on Harvard University
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gordon, Andrew Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American Japanologists American male non-fiction writers Duke University faculty Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Harvard University Department of History faculty Historians of Japan