作者: Maximilian Mayer

Douglas Howland is Buck Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. He is, most recently, author of International Law and Japanese Sovereignty: The Emerging Global Order in the 19th Century (2016) and co-editor (with Luise White) of The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations (2009). Elizabeth Lillehoj is Professor of Asian Art History with a specialization in premodern Japan, teaching at De Paul University in Chicago, USA. She is the editor of three volumes on East Asian art and author of Art and Palace Politics in Japan, 1580s-1680s (2011). Maximilian Mayer is Research Professor at the German Studies Center of Tongji University, Shanghai, with a specialization in International Relations, Science, Technology, and Arts. He is co-editor of The Global Politics of Science and Technology Vol.1 and Vol.2 (2014).