David Fedman | Shadows in the Forest: The Ōji Paper Company and Japan's Pulp Pipeline in Asia

Please join us for the third Eurasian Empires workshop meeting of Spring Quarter 2024–2025.

About the Speaker

David Fedman is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of the award–winning Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (University of Washington Press, 2020) and co-editor of Forces of Nature: New Approaches to Korean Environments (Cornell University Press, 2023). A specialist in the environmental history and historical geography of Japanese imperialism, his latest project explores Japan's vibrant print culture through the lens of the Ōji Paper Company, historically one of largest corporate managers of forests across the Asia-Pacific.