Christopher Harding (born July 1978) is a cultural historian of modern India and Japan, lecturer in

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at the

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, broadcaster and journalist. His series on culture and mental health, ''The Borders of Sanity'', was broadcast on

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and the

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in 2016. Harding's book, ''The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives'', was included in

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' best history books of the year 2020.

Selected publications

*''Religious Transformation in South Asia: the Meanings of Conversion in Colonial Punjab''.

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, Oxford, 2008. (

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) *''Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan'', Routledge, 2014. (Editor) *''Bukkyou Seishin Bunseki: Kosawa Heisaku-sensei wo kataru'', agao, Harding & Ikuta (co-authors) Kongo Shuppan, 2016. *"Historical Reflections on Madness", in White, Read, Jain & Orr, ''The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mental Health: Socio-Cultural Perspectives'', Palgrave, 2016. *''Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present'', Penguin Books, 2018. * ''The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives'', Penguin Books, 2022.

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*http://christopher-harding.com/ Alumni of St Antony's College, Oxford Living people Academics of the University of Edinburgh English broadcasters English journalists Cultural historians English historians Historians of Japan 1978 births Historians of India {{UK-historian-stub