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Dr Ming Gao is a research scholar of East Asia studies at Lund University.

He joined Lund University from the Australian Catholic University and Monash University, where he currently also holds affiliations. In addition, Ming was a Research Fellow at Seoul National University (서울대학교), and a pre-doctoral fellow at Tokyo Kokugakuin University.

He holds a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore. He also studied at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) with support from the United States-Japan Foundation. He has received several fellowships, including one awarded by the POSCO TJ Park Foundation.

He works at the intersection of history, politics, and society, with a particular focus on gender and feminism. He examines the historical experiences of the Japanese empire across East Asia alongside contemporary approaches to nation-building, activism, and diplomacy. His interests include transnational memory politics and historical statecraft, as well as regional formation and contestation among Japan, Korea, and China, and their global entanglements.

His academic work has appeared in well-regarded journals including Women's History Review, Asian Studies Review, Critical Asian Studies, and others.

He has written for well-known publications spanning policy, media, and public scholarship, including Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, East Asia Forum, South China Morning Post, The Conversation, CNA, Singapore Lianhe Zaobao (联合早报), The Paper (澎湃新闻), The Interpreter, among others.

He has provided expert commentary to The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC News, Newsweek Japan, Japan Business Press (日本ビジネスプレス), and has participated in live interviews on ABC Radio and other platforms.

He is an Associate Review Editor in The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs (University of Chicago Press).

He is proficient in English, Japanese (JLPT N1), Korean (TOPIK6), and Chinese.

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