JOSHUA A. FOGEL was born in Brooklyn and raised in Berkeley. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Chicago (BA 1972) and graduate work at Columbia University (PhD 1980). He has spent extended periods of research time in Japan over the last forty years. He has taught at Harvard University (1981-1988), the University of California, Santa Barbara (1989-2005), and is presently Canada Research Chair in modern Chinese studies at York University in Toronto. He has been a visiting professor at Kyoto University (1996-1997), the Institute of Advance Study in Princeton (2001-2003), Kansai University in Osaka (2008), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2014, 2016). He is the author, editor, or translator of sixty books. His work has focused on the cultural relations between China and Japan historically.