Bei Gao
Assoc Professor
Education
Gao Bei
Ph.D. in History, University of Virginia
Master of Law (International Relations), University of Kitakyushu, Japan
B.A. in International Relations, University of Kitakyushu, Japan
Research Interests
Gao Bei's research interests include the politics and society of modern China and Japan, the history of international relations in East Asia, and China's relationship to the wider world.
“Chinese Nationalists, Japanese Occupiers and European Jewish Refugees in
Shanghai, 1938-1941,” in Jay Winter and Kolleen Guy eds., Statelessness after
Arendt: European Refugees in Asia and the Pacific during the Second World
War (Manchester University Press, 2025).
“The Sino-Japanese War,” in G. Kurt Piehler and Jonathan Grant eds., Oxford Handbook
of World War II (Oxford University Press, May 2023).
Shanghai Sanctuary: Chinese and Japanese Policy toward European Jewish Refugees
during World War II (Oxford University Press, January 2013).