Yue-Him Tam's research interests are in intellectual history in modern Japan
and China; Sino-Japanese relations; Asian American issues; and war crimes and remembrance
in contemporary Asia-Pacific. Tam has published widely on modern Japanese history and
Sino-Japanese relations. He is past president of the San Francisco-based Global Alliance
for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia and is currently a member of the
Advisory Board of the East Asian Library Journal (Princeton University). He also sits on
the trustee boards of some independent and charter schools in Hong Kong and Saint Paul,
and holds honorary and visiting academic positions in Japan and the People's
Republic of China. 

Tam has been teaching at Macalester since 1990. 

EDUCATION: Dip., New Asia College, Hong Kong M.A., Indiana University M.A., Ph.D.,
Princeton University

Journal Articles

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Bring Just Closure to the History of World War II: Opening Remarks for The International Citizens' Forum, East Asia: An International Quarterly (2000)
 

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The Historic Video-Conference between Tokyo and Los Angeles: Accounts from Participants in the Nanjing Massacre and Unit 731, Chinese American Forum (1998)
 

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To Bury the Unhappy Past: The Pacific War in Japanese Textbooks, East Asian Library Journal (1994)
 

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The Revision of History Textbooks in Japan (in Chinese), Iotopia (1994)
 

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The Chinese Periodicals Specialized in Japanese Language Education in the 1930’s (in Chinese), Riyu xuexi yu yanjiu (“Japanese Learning & Research”) (1989)
 

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Books

Encyclopedia of Sino-Japanese Relations (in Chinese; co-editor) (with Guan Jie, et al) (1999)
 

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Remembering Nanjing: The 60th Anniversary of the Datusha--A Special Issue (chief editor) (1998)
 

Changes & Crises Under Autocracy: Imperial Russia in the Last Two Hundred Years Chinese translation & adaptation from Arthur Goldhammer’s English translation of the French book by Marc Raeff, Understanding Imperial Russia: State & Society in the Old Regime (New York: Columbia U Press, 1984). Senior co-editor & translator. (1996)
 

Economic & Cultural Relations Between Hong Kong & Japan, 1974-1993. (Chinese, Japanese & English articles included; Editor) (1994)
 

Sino-Japanese Relations in the Last Century: Essays in Interpretation. (in Chinese; Co-editor) (1992)
 

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Contributions to Books

Nanjing Datusha Shiliaoji (in Chinese), Historical Documents of the Nanjing Massacre (2011)
 

Remembering Tang Chun-i: Revisiting His Personality and Thoughts (in Chinese), Sixty Years of Passion: The Past, Present and Future of New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2009)
 

Prerequisites for Reconciliation with Japan: Sincere Apology and Reparations for War Crimes (in Japanese); Forward, Proceedings of the International Citizens’ Forum on War Crimes and Redress: Seeking Reconciliation and Peace for the 21st Century (2000)
 

Sino-Japanese Translation as a Cultural Enterprise: A Comparative Perspective” (in Chinese),, Studies in Translation as Cultural History (Fanyi wenhuashi lun) (1997)
 

‘Asia for Asians”: Cultural Control During the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong, 1941-1945, Proceedings of the 3rd Int’l Conference on Sino-Japanese Relations During the Last Century (1996)
 

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