The Activities of the British Political Intelligence Services against the International Communist Movements in Asia in 1920s and 1930s

• Project/Area Number: 20730115
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: International relations
• Research Institution: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
• Principal Investigator: ONIMARU Takeshi National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 政策研究科, 助教授 (80402824)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2010
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: トランスナショナル・イシュ / アジアにおける国際関係史 / 政治情報機関 / 旅券管理制度 / 上海 / 国際共産主義運動 / シンガポール / 香港 / 警察 / イギリス帝国

Research Abstract

This project reveals the activities of the Political Intelligence Services in East and Southeast Asia in 1920s and 1930s, mainly focusing on the British Political Police's activities against the International Communist Movements. The British Political Polices in Singapore and Shanghai were collecting wide range of information from political movements to religious movements and commercial activities. These information were shared not only within the British Empire but also among the Dutch East Indies, the French Indochina, the American Philippines, China and Japan, and utilized for monitoring and policing the International Communist Movements in the region.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Living "Underground" in Shanghai : Noulens and the Shanghai Comintern Network (2011)
  • Author(s): Takeshi ONIMARU
  • Journal Title: Traveling Nation-Makers : Transnational Flows and Movements in the Making of Modern Southeast Asia, edited by Caroline S.Hau and Kasian Tejapira, National University of Singapore Press : Singapore Pages: 96-125
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 戦間期英領マラヤにおける政治情報機関の成立とその活動 (2009)
  • Author(s): 鬼丸武士
  • Journal Title: 歴史学研究 860号「特集近代警察像の再検討(I)」 Pages: 36-46
• [Journal Article] 戦間期英領マラヤにおける政治情報機関の成立とその活動 (2009)
  • Author(s): 鬼丸武士
  • Journal Title: 歴史学研究 860 Pages: 36-46
• [Presentation] Shanghai Connection : How the communist network in East and Southeast Asia was constructed, maintained, and collapsed? (2010)
  • Author(s): Takeshi ONIMARU
  • Organizer: 政策研究大学院大学GCOEプログラム「東アジアの開発経験と国家建設の適用可能性」主催国際ワークショップ"Political Networks in Asia"
  • Place of Presentation: 政策研究大学院大学(東京)
  • Year and Date: 2010-05-14
• [Presentation] Identifying `Agents' in Asia : The Political Intelligence Services, the Passport Control System, and the Communist International in Asia in the 1920s and 1930s (2009)
  • Author(s): Takeshi ONIMARU
  • Organizer: Public Conference : "Identifying the Person : Past, Present, and Future"
  • Place of Presentation: オックスフォード大学
  • Year and Date: 2009-09-26
• [Presentation] Shanghai Connection : The Communist Network in East and Southeast Asia in the 1920s and 1930s (2009)
  • Author(s): Takeshi ONIMARU
  • Organizer: The 33rd Southeast Asia Seminar on "Region" and Regional Perspectives on/from Southeast Asia
  • Place of Presentation: 京都大学東南アジア研究所
  • Year and Date: 2009-09-09
• [Presentation] Shanghai : The Regional Centre of the Communist Network in East and Southeast Asia in the 1920s and 1930s (2009)
  • Author(s): Takeshi ONIMARU
  • Organizer: The First Congress of the Asian Association of World Historians
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪大学
  • Year and Date: 2009-05-30
• [Presentation] Communist Network in East and Southeast Asia during 1920s and 30s (2009)
  • Author(s): Takeshi ONIMARU
  • Organizer: 政策研究大学院大学GCOEプログラム「東アジアの開発経験と国家建設の適用可能性」国際ワークショップ"Political Networks in Asia"
  • Place of Presentation: 政策研究大学院大学(東京)
  • Year and Date: 2009-02-28
• [Presentation] Identifying 'Agents' in Asia : The Political Intelligence Services, the Passport Control System, and the Communist International in Asia in the 1920s and 1930s (2009)
  • Author(s): Takeshi ONIMARU.
  • Organizer: Public Conference : "Identifying the Person: Past, Present, and Future"
  • Place of Presentation: St Antony's College, University of Oxford
• [Presentation] Shanghai Connection : The Communist Network in East and Southeast Asia in the 1920s and 1930s" (2009)
  • Author(s): Takeshi ONIMARU.
  • Organizer: The 33rd Southeast Asia Seminar on "Region" and Regional Perspectives on/from Southeast Asia
  • Place of Presentation: Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Kyoto University
• [Presentation] Shanghai : The Regional Centre of the Communist Network in East and Southeast Asia in the 1920s and 1930s (2009)
  • Author(s): Takeshi ONIMARU.
  • Organizer: The First Congress of the Asian Association of World Historians (Osaka), Session "Colonial and Imperial Cities in the 19th and 20th Centuries : Approaches from the "Peripheries"
• [Presentation] 地下活動の場としての「魔都」-戦間期、上海での政治運動- (2009)
  • Author(s): 鬼丸武士
  • Organizer: 大阪大学GCOEプログラム「コンフリクトの人文学国際研究教育拠点」公開ワークショップ『帝国の時代の都市と植民地-周縁」から考える-』
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪
• [Presentation] Some Reflections from East and Southeast Asian Cases (2008)
  • Author(s): Takeshi ONIMARU
  • Organizer: 'The Documentation of Individual Identity : Historical, Comparative and Transnational Perspectives since 1500'
  • Place of Presentation: オックスフォード大学(イギリス)
  • Year and Date: 2008-09-27
• [Book] Living "Underground" in Shanghai : Noulens and the Shanghai Comintern Network," in Traveling Nation-Makers : Transnational Flows and Movements in the Making of Modern Southeast Asia, edited by Caroline S.Hau and Kasian Tejapira (2010)
  • Author(s): Takeshi ONIMARU.
  • Total Pages: 310
  • Publisher: National University of Singapore Press : Singapore
• [Remarks]
  • URL: http://www.grips.ac.jp/jp/facultyinfo/political_studies/onimaru_takeshi.html
• [Remarks]
  • URL: http://www.grips.ac.jp/jp/facultyifo/political_studies/onimaru_takeshi.html