Wang Guangtao
Vice-director and associate professor, Center for Japanese Studies, Fudan UniversityWang Guangtao is the vice-director and an associate professor at the Center for Japanese Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. His research focuses on Japanese domestic politics and foreign policy, China-Japan relations and East Asian international relations. His recent publications include “Bridging the Gap between International Relations and Area Studies” in International Affairs (2026) and “China’s Political Discourse on the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands” in The Journal of Contemporary China (2026).
Articles by Wang Guangtao
Politics
‘Neo-militarism’: Why Beijing sees Japan reviving a prewar trajectory
China’s charge of Japan’s so-called “neo-militarism” is not about arsenal comparisons — it is a decades-old fear, now updated, that Japan is quietly restoring the prewar state that 1945 was supposed to dismantle, say Chinese academics Shao Jingkai and Wang Guangtao.
Shao Jingkai, Wang Guangtao
12 Jun 2026