Professor Reynolds is a specialist in modern Chinese history, with an associated research field in modern Japanese history. He teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels covering all periods of Chinese and Japanese history, as well as world history. His research and major publications emphasize modern Sino-Japanese relations, focusing on cultural interactions between China and Japan in the late nineteenth early twentieth centuries. Research has taken him to China and Japan as well as to major research libraries in the United States. His book China , 1898-1912 : The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan (1993) was nominated for several national academic prizes in the United States . On the strength of this book, he was awarded Japan 's prestigious To-A Dobun Shoin Memorial Prize, in 1996. This book's Chinese translation was published in China in 1998. Other writings by Reynolds have been awarded two different Modern Sino-Japanese Relations Prizes of the Association for Asian Studies. He is currently completing a book manuscript, East Meets East: Chinese Literati Views of Early Meiji Japan , to 1895 . Reynolds has given frequent presentations at meetings and academic conferences locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally, including Taiwan and the People's Republic of China (in Chinese), Japan (in Japanese), Hong Kong, and Singapore .