Professor Li Narangoa
BA (Inner Mongolia), PhD (Bonn)
Professor, School of Culture, History & Language
College of Asia & the Pacific
Areas of expertise
- Government And Politics Of Asia And The Pacific 160606
- Historical Studies 2103
- Asian History 210302
- Religion And Society 220405
- International Relations 160607
Biography
Li Narangoa specialises in modern Japanese and Mongolian history, culture and politics. Before she joined the ANU staff member she was researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (Copenhagen). She teaches courses in Japanese history and language, the Mongol empire in World History as well as broader thematic courses such as 'Reconcilation and Memories of Conflicts'. Her research interests include borders, empires, nationalism and international relations in Northeast Asia. Her current projects include Japan's relations with other Asian countries in 20th century, 'Puppet states', effects of war and knowledge tranmission of Mongolian medicine.
Publications
- Narangoa, L 2018, 'From One Divided Country to Another: The Korean War in Mongolia', in Tessa Morris-Suzuki (ed.), The Korean War in Asia: A Hidden History (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., London, pp. 55-76.
- Narangoa, L 2018, 'Inner Mongolia and the Korean War', Studies in Inner Asian History and Culture, vol. 4, pp. 1-19.
- Narangoa, L 2018, 'Historia de Mongolia despu�s de la guerra [Mongolia After the War]', in Pedro Iacobelli D., Robert Cribb, Juan Luis Perello E. (ed.), Asia y el Pac�fico durante la Guerra Fr�a, Fondo de Cultura Economica, Chile, pp. 43-54.
- Narangoa, L 2018, 'Mongolia as a base for Central Asia and the Silk Road', in Sel?uk Esenbel (ed.), Japan on the Silk Road: Encounters and Perspectives of Politics and Culture in Eurasia, Koninklijke Brill, The Netherlands, pp. 118-144.
- Narangoa, L 2017, '�Mongolig Negtek m�r��del ba Kyaktin Geree� (The Kyakta Treaty and the Dream for a United Mongol State)', in Chevegjavin Ganbagana (ed.), 20 Juuni Ehen Hagas Ue Ba Mongochuud, Udam Soyol Publishing, Ulaanbaatar, pp. 9-33.
- Narangoa, L 2017, 'Managing the Social Order: The 'Kingly Way' and Manchukuo's vision of 'Benevolent Welfare', in C. Chuluun and P. G. Myagmarsambuu (ed.), XX Juuni Mongol: Tuuh, Soyil, Geopolitik, Gagaad Harilchaani Tulgamdsan Asuudaluud (Mongolia in 20th Century : Challenges faced in history, culture, geopolitics and foreign affairs), Ulaanbaatar: Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolia, pp. 130-150.
- De Rachewilz I & Narangoa, L 2017, '(Translation) Joro's youth: the first part of the Mongolian epic of Geser Khan'.
- De Rachewilz, I & Narangoa, L 2017, '(Introduction) Joro�s youth : the first part of the Mongolian epic of Geser Khan', in Igor de Rachewiltz and Li Narangoa (ed.), Joro�s youth : the first part of the Mongolian epic of Geser Khan, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 1-22.
- Chandler, D, Cribb, R & Narangoa, L 2016, End of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World, NIAS Press, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Cribb, R & Narangoa, L 2016, 'Steppe empires', in John MacKenzie (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Empire, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., United States. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118455074
- Narangoa, L 2014, 'Mongolia searches for breathing room', Current History: a Journal of Contemporary World Affairs, vol. 113, no. 764, pp. 238-244.
- Farrelly, N & Narangoa, L, eds, 2014, East Asia Forum Quarterly, volume 6, number 1.
- Narangoa, Li, & Cribb, Robert 2014, Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia 1590-2010: Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia, Columbia University Press, New York.
- Narangoa, L 2013, 'Mongorujin ni totte no Manshukoku: Minzoku kyoowa toiu kukan / What did Manchukuo mean for Mongols: The Space of 'Racial Harmony'', Afro-eurasian inner dry land civilizations collection, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 19-30.
- Narangoa, L 2013, 'Mongorujin ga egaita higashi Ajia kyÅ?dÅ?tai / The East Asian Community in the imagination of the Mongols', in Matsuura Masataka (ed.), Ajia shugi wa nani o kataru noka : kioku kenryoku kachi / What did Asianism mean?, Mineruva Shobo, Kyoto, pp. 146-160.
- Narangoa, L 2012, Mongolia's 2012 parliamentary election, pp. 5pp.
- Narangoa, L 2012, 'Mongolia in 2011 Resources Bring Friends and Wealth', Asian Survey, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 81-87.
- Narangoa, L 2011, 'The Assembly of the Greater East Asiatic Nations, 1943', in Sven Saaler & Christopher W.A. Szpilman (ed.), Pan-Asianism; A Documentary History; Volume 2: 1920-Present, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., Plymouth UK, pp. 243-253.
- Narangoa, L 2009, 'Mongol nationalism, Chinese colonialism, and Japanese imperialism in Inner Mongolia, 1936-1945', in Peter Schweiger (ed.), Zentral-Asiatische Studien 38, 2009 [Central Asian Studies 38, 2009], International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Halle, pp. 227-251.
- Narangoa, L & Cribb, R 2010, 'Nations-of-intent: from counterfactual history to counterfactual geography', Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 276-285.
- Narangoa, L 2009, 'Mongols Between Big Powers: The Idea of Man-MO', in Tokusu Kurebito (ed.), Past and Present of the Mongolic Peoples, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, pp. 172-181.
- Narangoa, L 2009, 'Pan-Asianism and Co-prosperity in the Japanese imperial imagination', in Imanishi Junko, Ulziibaatar Demberel, Husel Borjigin (ed.), A New Global Order in North East Asia, Hukyo Publishing House, Tokyo, pp. 231-241.
- Narangoa, L 2009, 'Mongolia and Preventive Diplomacy', Asian Survey, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 358-379.
- Narangoa, L 2007, 'Nationalism and Globalization on the Inner Mongolia Frontier: The Commercialization of a Tamed Ethnicity', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 19 November, no. Article ID 971, pp. 1-23.
- Narangoa, L 2007, 'Fufuhoto no toshi kaihatsu ni okeru chi'iki tokushokuka to esunishite no shogyoka [City Development in Hohhot: Regionalism and Commercialization of Ethinicity]', Historical Approach to City Development and Social Solidarity, ed. COE Project Team, Osaka City University, Osaka, pp. 102-115.
- Narangoa, L 2007, 'The Manchurian Bandits in the Making of Japanese Empire', in Marie-Luise Legeland (ed.), Von Bauern, Beamten und Banditen: Beitrage zur historischen Japanforschung, Biersche Verlagsanstalt, Bonn, pp. 181-202.
- Narangoa, L 2007, 'Universal values and Pan-Asianism: the Vision of Omotokyo', in Sven Saaler and J. Victor Koschmann (ed.), Pan-Asianism in modern Japanese history: colonialism, regionalism and borders, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Oxon, UK, pp. 52-66.
- Cribb, R & Narangoa, L 2006, 'Constructing Indigenousness in the late Modern World', in Patricia Grimshaw and Russell McGregor (ed.), Collisions of Cultures and Identities: Settlers and Indigenous Peoples, RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 279-294.
- Narangoa, L 2006, 'Geopolitics in Manchuria: Settlement and Technology', Journal of Manchurian Studies, vol. 5, pp. 101-117.
- Bruun, O & Narangoa, L, eds, 2006, Mongols from Country to City: Floating Boundaries, Pastoralism and City Life in the Mongol Lands, NIAS Press, Denmark.
- Cribb, R & Narangoa, L 2006, 'Hiding borders, skewing perspectives and reversing time: possibilities for a new generation of historical atlases', Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia 2006, ed. Adrian Vickers and Margaret Hanlon, Australian National University, Canberra, p. 12.
- Bruun, O & Narangoa, L 2006, 'A New Moment in Mongol History: The Rise of the Cosmopolitan City', in Ole Bruun and Li Narangoa (ed.), Mongols from Country to City: Floating Boundaries, Pastoralism and City Life in the Mongol Lands, NIAS Press, Denmark, pp. 1-20.
- Narangoa, L & Altanjula, L 2006, 'From Shamanist Healing to Scientific Medicine: Bonesetters in Inner Mongolia', in Ole Bruun and Li Narangoa (ed.), Mongols from Country to City: Floating Boundaries, Pastoralism and City Life in the Mongol Lands, NIAS Press, Denmark, pp. 237 - 253.
- Narangoa, L 2006, 'Mokyo seiken ron - "Kairai seiken" no rekishiteki imi' (the Historical Meaning of 'Puppet State')', in Kurasawa Aoko et al. (ed.), Iwanami KoÌ?za Ajia TaiheiyoÌ? sensoÌ?, Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo.
- Cribb, R & Narangoa, L 2004, 'Orphans of Empire: Divided Peoples, Dilemmas of Identity, and Old Imperial Borders in East and Southeast Asia', Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 164-187.
- Cribb, R & Narangoa, L 2004, 'Dynamics of Land and Identity in Pacific Asia: Reflections on Attachment to Land', International Journal of the Humanities, vol. 1, pp. 1093-1102.
- Cribb, R & Narangoa, L 2004, 'Changing Meanings of the Term Indigenous in Pacific Asia', International Journal of the Humanities, vol. 1, pp. 910-917.
- Narangoa, L 2004, 'Japanese Orphans from China: History and identity in a returning migrant community', East Asian History, vol. 25/26, pp. 141-160.
- Narangoa, L 2004, 'Mobilizing Priests and Reforming Buddhism', Shimane Journal of North East Asian Research: North East Region, vol. 7, pp. 69-82.
- Narangoa, L 2004, 'Japanese Geopolitics and the Monogol Lands, 1915-1945', European Journal of East Asian Studies (EJEAS), vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 45-68.
- Narangoa, L & Cribb, R 2003, 'Introduction: Japan and the Transformation of National Identities in Asia in the Imperial Era', in Li Narangoa and Robert Cribb (ed.), Imperial Japan and national identities in Asia, 1895-1945, Routledge Curzon, London and New York, pp. 1-22.
- Narangoa, L & Cribb, R 2003, 'Appendix: Postage Stamps and Japanese Imperialism', in Li Narangoa and Robert Cribb (ed.), Imperial Japan and national identities in Asia, 1895-1945, Routledge Curzon, London and New York, pp. 319-327.
- Narangoa, L 2003, 'Japanese expansion and Mongolian Buddhism, 1932-1945', Critical Asian Studies, vol. 35:4, pp. 491-514.
- Narangoa, L & Cribb, R 2003, 'Afterword: Japanese Imperialism and the Politics of Loyalty', in Li Narangoa and Robert Cribb (ed.), Imperial Japan and national identities in Asia, 1895-1945, Routledge Curzon, London and New York, pp. 315-318.
- Narangoa, L & Cribb, R, eds, 2003, Imperial Japan and National Identities in Asia, 1895-1945, Routledge Curzon, London and New York.
- Narangoa, L 2002, 'Die japanischen Kriegswaisen aus China und ihre Identitatssuche (Searching Identity: Japanese war orphans from China)', in Herausgeberkollektiv (ed.), Beitraege zur Japanforschurng, Biersche Verlagsanstalt, Bonn, pp. 161-178.
- Pantzer, P, Eichhorn, M, Hilker, K et al 2002, Die Iwakura-Mission: Das Logbuch des Kume Kunitake ueber den Besuch der japanischen Sondergesandtschaft in Deutschland, Osterreich und der Schweiz im Jahre 1873, Judicium, Munchen.
- Narangoa, L 2002, 'Mongol Empire', in David Levinson, Karen Christensen (ed.), Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, Charles Scribner's Sons, USA, pp. 162-164pp.
- Narangoa, L 2002, 'The Power of Imagination: Whose Northeast and Whose Manchuria?', Inner Asia, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 3-25.
- Panzer, P & Narangoa, L, eds, 2002, EAJRS Newsletter, 9.
- Narangoa, L 2001, 'Educating Mongols and Making Citizens of Manchukuo', Inner Asia, vol. 3, pp. 101-126.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Igor de Rachewiltz Research Fund (Primary Investigator)
- Mongolian Medicine: different modes of multispecies knowledge transmission (Primary Investigator)
- Mongolian online language program (Primary Investigator)
- Renewal: Asian Community: Reconciliation and the Memory of Conflict in East Asia (Primary Investigator)
- Asian Community: Reconciliation and the Memory of Conflict in East Asia (Primary Investigator)
- Mongolian Update (Primary Investigator)
- Northeast Asia and the Korean War: Legacies of Hot and Cold Wars in Contemporary Constructions of the Region (Secondary Investigator)
- Puppet States Revisited: Empire and Sovereign Subordination in Modern Asia (Primary Investigator)
- Borders and Empires: A Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia, 1636-2006 (Primary Investigator)
