Bill Mihalopoulos
Biographic Data
| ID | 286615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bill Mihalopoulos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bill |
| FAMILY NAME | Mihalopoulos |
| SIGNATURE | MIHALOPOULOS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS , London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6112-6094 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Liberty, the Maria Luz Incident and the Liminal Legal Status of Chinese Indentured Labourers and Japanese Licensed Prostitutes
While covering the same ground as recent scholarship on the emancipatory potential of the Maria Luz incident, this article takes a radical departure, arguing that the background to the incident was British desire to disrupt the Macao trade in Chinese labour to Peru; that the legal focus of the ad hoc tribunals was not on any nascent human right to free the Chinese men and minors from being trafficked to Peru but on who owned and controlled their …
The never-ending Pacific War: Imamura Shōhei and the ruse of memory
This article focuses on three documentaries made by the acclaimed director Imamura Shōhei (1926–2006) for Tokyo Channel 12 between 1971 and 1973. The three documentaries – In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers in Malaysia (1971), In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers in Thailand (1971); and Outlaw Matsu Returns (1973) – challenge contemporary accounts that valorise the Japanese state as the ultimate political agent of progress. Imamura presents his…
Introduction to special issue on visual culture
Sex in Japan's Globalization, 1870–1930: Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation-Building
Based on archival research undertaken in Japan, Britain and the United States, Mihalopoulos offers a new perspective on the relations between gender hierarchies and the political economy in a newly modernized Japan
世界か Women, Overseas Sex Work and Globalization in Meiji
Sex in Japan's Globalization, 1870-1930, from which the following discussion is adapted and developed, deals with poor rural women who migrated overseas to work as sex labourers. The core of the book is a historical study of the gendered and class impact of Japan's first encounter with globalisation that began in the 1860s. The women who worked in overseas brothels, I argue, must be first understood as peasants liberated from the land by Meiji la…
Mediating the Good Life: Prostitution and the Japanese Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1880s–1920s
This article examines how the Japanese Woman's Christian Temperance Union, in the name of promoting liberty and rights of women in their relations with men, constructed hierarchies to ascribe value to themselves through moral condemnation. The JWCTU used extramarital sex as a political issue to strengthen the position of the legal wife in the household as opposed to the concubine and prostitute. Their efforts to prohibit Japanese women from going…
Ousting the 'prostitute: Retelling the story of the Karayuki-san
(2001). Ousting the 'prostitute': Retelling the story of the Karayuki-san. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 169-187
Street smart
Modernization as creative problem making: Political action, personal conduct and Japanese overseas prostitutes
This paper is concerned with how and why the karayuki-san – Japanese female migrants who worked as sexual labourers from 1880 until the start of the Pacific War – became an issue that had to be dealt by successive Japanese governments. The argument of the paper is that the creation of the karayuki-sanas a problem of government cannot be divorced from the concurrent emergence of changes in the ethics of personal conduct under the rubric of ‘modern…
Mediating the Good Life: Prostitution and the Japanese Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1880s–1920s
This article examines how the Japanese Woman's Christian Temperance Union, in the name of promoting liberty and rights of women in their relations with men, constructed hierarchies to ascribe value to themselves through moral condemnation. The JWCTU used extramarital sex as a political issue to strengthen the position of the legal wife in the household as opposed to the concubine and prostitute. Their efforts to prohibit Japanese women from going…
Ousting the 'prostitute: Retelling the story of the Karayuki-san
(2001). Ousting the 'prostitute': Retelling the story of the Karayuki-san. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 169-187
Modernization as creative problem making: Political action, personal conduct and Japanese overseas prostitutes
This paper is concerned with how and why the karayuki-san – Japanese female migrants who worked as sexual labourers from 1880 until the start of the Pacific War – became an issue that had to be dealt by successive Japanese governments. The argument of the paper is that the creation of the karayuki-sanas a problem of government cannot be divorced from the concurrent emergence of changes in the ethics of personal conduct under the rubric of ‘modern…
Modernization as creative problem making: Political action, personal conduct and Japanese overseas prostitutes
This paper is concerned with how and why the karayuki-san – Japanese female migrants who worked as sexual labourers from 1880 until the start of the Pacific War – became an issue that had to be dealt by successive Japanese governments. The argument of the paper is that the creation of the karayuki-sanas a problem of government cannot be divorced from the concurrent emergence of changes in the ethics of personal conduct under the rubric of ‘modern…
Ousting the 'prostitute: Retelling the story of the Karayuki-san
(2001). Ousting the 'prostitute': Retelling the story of the Karayuki-san. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 169-187
Street smart
Mediating the Good Life: Prostitution and the Japanese Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1880s–1920s
This article examines how the Japanese Woman's Christian Temperance Union, in the name of promoting liberty and rights of women in their relations with men, constructed hierarchies to ascribe value to themselves through moral condemnation. The JWCTU used extramarital sex as a political issue to strengthen the position of the legal wife in the household as opposed to the concubine and prostitute. Their efforts to prohibit Japanese women from going…
世界か Women, Overseas Sex Work and Globalization in Meiji
Sex in Japan's Globalization, 1870-1930, from which the following discussion is adapted and developed, deals with poor rural women who migrated overseas to work as sex labourers. The core of the book is a historical study of the gendered and class impact of Japan's first encounter with globalisation that began in the 1860s. The women who worked in overseas brothels, I argue, must be first understood as peasants liberated from the land by Meiji la…
Sex in Japan's Globalization, 1870–1930: Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation-Building
Based on archival research undertaken in Japan, Britain and the United States, Mihalopoulos offers a new perspective on the relations between gender hierarchies and the political economy in a newly modernized Japan
The never-ending Pacific War: Imamura Shōhei and the ruse of memory
This article focuses on three documentaries made by the acclaimed director Imamura Shōhei (1926–2006) for Tokyo Channel 12 between 1971 and 1973. The three documentaries – In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers in Malaysia (1971), In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers in Thailand (1971); and Outlaw Matsu Returns (1973) – challenge contemporary accounts that valorise the Japanese state as the ultimate political agent of progress. Imamura presents his…
Introduction to special issue on visual culture
Liberty, the Maria Luz Incident and the Liminal Legal Status of Chinese Indentured Labourers and Japanese Licensed Prostitutes
While covering the same ground as recent scholarship on the emancipatory potential of the Maria Luz incident, this article takes a radical departure, arguing that the background to the incident was British desire to disrupt the Macao trade in Chinese labour to Peru; that the legal focus of the ad hoc tribunals was not on any nascent human right to free the Chinese men and minors from being trafficked to Peru but on who owned and controlled their …
Political science (7 works) · Japanese History and Culture (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)