John Meehan is the director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto. He is also a fellow and assistant professor at Trinity College and affiliated faculty at the Centre for the Study of Global Japan at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He is the author of The Dominion and the Rising Sun: Canada Encounters Japan, 1929–41 and Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai: Canada’s Early Relations with China, 1858–1952.