Harald Fuess
Professor
Global Art History
Heidelberg University
Germany
Biography
Position HCTS Professor "Cultural Economic History" Project Professor at Kyoto University Speaker of the Graduate Programs in Transcultural Studies Executive Board Member, Heidelberg University, Graduate School for Humanities and Social Sciences (HGGS) Scientific Coordinator of Hexagon Alliance of six German and Japanese Universities (Heidelberg, Göttingen, Karlsruhe KIT, Kyoto, Osaka, Tohoku) Speaker for the Working Group on Korean Studies Harald Fuess has been Professor of History at Heidelberg University since 2009 and is one of the foremost experts on Japan in Europe. Professor Fuess currently examines the wide impact of Western industrial and mercantile capitalism on East Asian economies and cultures during the long nineteenth century. His case studies are connecting the global and the local through topics such as arms trade, treaty ports societies, consular jurisdiction, international epidemics, diplomatic disputes on trademarks, the role of the multilingual press, multinational business histories, and transcultural fusions of consumer cultures.
Research Interest
History
Publications
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Harald Fuess. "Das Ringen um Staatliche Souveränität und das Wirtschaftsrecht des Stärkeren: Europa und der Markenschutz in Japan und Ostasien, 1884-1923." Special Issue ZJapanR/J.Japan.L., fall 2017
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2017 Harald Fuess. "Unequal Treaties, Consular Jurisdiction, and Treaty Port Society." In Handbook of Modern Japanese History, edited by Sven Saaler and Christopher Szpilman, Routledge, pp. 47-61.
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Harald Fuess and Robert Hellyer, eds., Meiji Restoration in a Global Context, book publication expected in 2018. Includes a chapter by Harald Fuess on "The Global Arms Trade and the Meiji Restoration: The Spread of Violence in a World of Emerging Nation-States."
