The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region

Please join us on October 1st for a roundtable discussion on Hannah Shepherd's new book, The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region (University of California Press, December 2025). 
 

The roundtable, chaired by David Engerman, will feature the author in conversation with Ruth Barraclough, historian of Korean history at Columbia University; Alexis Dudden, historian of Japanese and Korean history at University of Connecticut; and Fadzilah Yahaya, historian of Southeast Asia here at Yale. 

 

This event is generously sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies. We hope to see you there!