Emily Matson

Dr. Emily Matson has a doctorate in Chinese History from the University of Virginia. Her areas of expertise include Chinese history, Japanese history, and historical memory. For her dissertation, she researched museums commemorating the War of Resistance against Japan in Northeastern China and elsewhere and how their exhibits evolved in accordance with the sociopolitical vicissitudes from Beijing. Dr. Matson is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, as well as Spanish, and has elementary competencies in Russian and Japanese. She currently holds a China fellowship from the Wilson Center and is continuing her research on Northeastern Chinese memory of World War II.