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Click here to read an interview about my book.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Publications<\/h3>\n

Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan<\/em>. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. Honorable Mention, John Whitney Hall Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983878<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBenevolence, Charity, and Duty: Famine Relief and Domain Society During the Tenmei Famine.\u201d Monumenta Nipponica<\/i>, vol. 69, no. 1 (2014): 55-101.<\/p>\n

\u201cMountain Demons from Mito\u2014The Arrival of Civil War in Echizen in 1864.\u201c In The<\/em> Meiji Restoration in a Global Context<\/em>, ed. Robert Hellyer, Steven Ivings, and Harald Fuess. Cambridge University Press, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cOutcastes and Ie<\/em>: A Study of Two Beggar Boss Associations.\u201c In What is a Family? Answers from Early Modern Japan, <\/em>ed. Marcia Yonemoto and Mary Elizabeth Berry, 126-145. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book\/9780520316089\/what-is-a-family<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cCharity Reconstructed: The Transformation of Social Welfare in Rural Japan in the Nineteenth Century.\u201d In Charities in the Non-Western World: The Development and Regulation of Indigenous and Islamic Charities<\/i>, ed. Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown and Justin Pierce, pp. 88-111. Abingdon\/New York: Routledge, 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cExecuting Duty: \u014cno Domain and the Employment of\u00a0Hinin<\/i>\u00a0in the Bakumatsu Period.\u201d\u00a0Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal<\/i>, vol. 18 (2010): 76-87.<\/p>\n

\u201cKinsei \u014cno-han ni okeru hinkon to ky\u016bsai.\u201d Buraku Mondai Kenky<\/em>\u016b <\/em>221 (2017): 47-65.<\/p>\n

\u201cEchizen \u014cno j\u014dka no zat\u014d to goze\u201d (Blind Entertainers in the Castle Town of \u014cno in Echizen). In Sekky<\/em>\u014d\u2014Hito wa<\/em> shinbutsu ni nani o takus\u014d to suru no ka<\/em> (Sekky<\/em>\u014d Storytelling\u2014What did People Expect From the Gods and Buddhas?<\/em>, ed. K\u014dbe Joshi Daigaku Koten Gein\u014d Kenky\u016b Sentaa, pp. 229-242. Osaka: Izumi Shoin, 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cMibun shakai to jinsei: Bakumatsu Ono no biko chochiku\u201c (Status Society and Benevolent Rule: Emergency Reserves in Bakumatsu Ono). In Kinsei mibun shakai no hikakushi: Ho to shakai no shiten kara<\/i>, ed. Tsukada Takashi, Saga Ashita, and Yagi Shigeru, pp. 345-375. Osaka: Seibundo, 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cMibun shakai no hinmin ky\u016bsai \u2013 Tenmei kikin-ch\u016b no Echizen \u014cno-han o rei ni\u201d (Poor Relief Under the Status Order \u2013 the Case of Echizen \u014cno Domain During the Tenmei Famine). In\u00a0Mibunteki sh\u016ben no hikakushi \u2013 h\u014d to shakai no shiten kara<\/i>, ed. Tsukada Takashi, pp. 293-346. Osaka: Seibund\u014d, 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u014cno-han no Koshir\u014d \u2013 han shakai no naka no hinin sh\u016bdan\u201d (The Koshir\u014d of \u014cno Domain \u2013 A Beggar Group Within Domain Society). In\u00a0Toshi no sh\u016ben ni ikiru<\/i>, ed. Tsukada Takashi, pp. 87-120. Tokyo: Yoshikawa K\u014dbunkan, 2006 (Shiriizu mibunteki sh\u016ben, vol. 4).<\/p>\n

\u201cDas\u00a0Utakichi kaikoku monogatari<\/i>: Dokument eines Pilgerschicksals aus der sp\u00e4ten Edo-Zeit.\u201d In\u00a0S\u00fcnden des Worts. Festschrift f\u00fcr Roland Schneider zum 65. Geburtstag<\/i>, ed. by Judit \u00c1rokay and Klaus Vollmer, pp. 597-624. Hamburg: Ges. f\u00fcr Natur- und V\u00f6lkerkunde Ostasiens, 2004.<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/h3>\n

History of early modern and modern Japan, history of East Asia, history of poverty and poor relief, social history, history of social class, local history<\/p>\n

Education<\/h3>\n

M.A., Universit\u00e4t Hamburg, 2003<\/p>\n

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2011<\/p>\n

Current Project<\/h3>\n

I am working on a new book on domain reform in the final years of the Tokugawa period, f<\/span>ocusing again on \u014cno, the small domain in central Japan that was the subject of my first book. By looking at a small domain with a scattered territory, I hope to find new answers to the question of what constituted a domain in Bakumatsu-era Japan, considering factors such as commerce, knowledge production and Western Learning, as well as occupational and local identity. This time, I am following reform initiatives that connected \u014cno to such places as Osaka, Edo, Tsuruga, Hakodate, and Karafuto (Sakhalin). I am currently examining how the domain, in the course of these reforms, relied on social groups that formed networks across domain borders: wholesalers, shipping agents, sailors, lacquer harvesters and -dealers, miners, non-Japanese people on Karafuto, and others.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click here to read an interview about my book.\u00a0 Publications Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. Honorable Mention, John Whitney Hall Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983878 \u201cBenevolence, Charity, and Duty: Famine Relief and Domain Society During the Tenmei Famine.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3ipwJ-5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/maren-ehlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/maren-ehlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/maren-ehlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/maren-ehlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/maren-ehlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/maren-ehlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/maren-ehlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/maren-ehlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}