In Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E., Joshua Fogel examines the waves of historiographical analysis that this first item to pass officially from China to Japan has undergone in the two-plus centuries since its discovery.

Joshua Fogel (Ph.D., Columbia, 1980) is Canada Research Chair and Professor of History at York University. He has written, edited, and translated over forty books and is the founding editor of the journal, Sino-Japanese Studies (www.chinajapan.org). His primary interest lies in the cultural dimension of Sino-Japanese relations.