Adam Clulow
Position
Lecturer
Phone
61- 3- 9905 2193
Address
School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Building 11
Monash University
Victoria, 3800
Australia
Location
6th Floor, Menzies Building
Personal History
I did my first degree at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. I later completed a M.A. in East Asian studies at Niigata University in Japan in 2002. I moved to Monash in 2008 after completing my PhD in Japanese history at Columbia University in New York. I have also served as a visiting researcher at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge and the Historiographical Institute in Tokyo.
Current Research
My research focuses on early modern Japan. I am currently working on a book that examines the interaction between the early modern Japanese state and the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The Company appeared in Japan at a critical moment as the newly established Tokugawa state (1603-1867) was in the process of consolidating its power both domestically and abroad. I am also working on a number of separate smaller projects that focus on piracy in the Indian Ocean, diplomacy in Southeast Asia and Chinese communities in Japan. All of these projects look at the seventeenth century. My next research project will examine Japan's colonial regime in Taiwan.
Major Publications
Fuyuko Matsukata and Adam Clulow, “King Willem II’s 1844 Letter to the Shogun: ‘Recommendation to Open the Country,’” Monumenta Nipponica 66, no. 1 (2011): 99-122.
Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia: Studies in Taiwan-Japan Relations (Routledge, 2010)
“From Global Entrepôt to Early Modern Domain: Hirado, 1609-1641,” Monumenta Nipponica 61, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 1-35
“A Fake Embassy, the Lord of Taiwan and Tokugawa Japan,” Japanese Studies 30, no. 1 (May 2010): 23-41
“European Maritime Violence and Territorial States in Early Modern Asia, 1600-1650,” Itinerario 33, no. 3 (November 2009): 72-94
“The Pirate Returns: Historical Models, East Asia and the War against Somali Piracy” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 25-3-09 (June 2009)
“Unjust, Cruel and Barbarous Proceedings: Japanese Mercenaries and the Amboyna Incident of 1623,” Itinerario 31, no. 1 (2007): 15-34
“Pirating in the Shogun’s Waters: The Dutch East India Company and the Santo Antonio incident,” Bulletin of Portuguese-Japanese History 13 (December 2006): 65-80.
Areas of Research & Supervision
Premodern and modern East Asia, Japanese history, maritime history, South and Southeast Asia in the early modern period, colonialism and imperialism.
Teaching
ATS1325 – Contemporary Worlds 1
ATS1326 – Contemporary Worlds 2
HSY1060 – Asian civilisations 2 *
ATS2578/ATS3578 – Soldiers of fortune: mercenaries, states and violence *
* Note: Not offered in 2011.