He has also written spin-off novels for Strontium Dog and Spartacus: Blood & Sand. He was formerly the editor of Manga Max magazine, a contributing editor of Newtype USA, and is now a contributing editor to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, with special responsibility for China and Japan.Īs a script writer, his work includes the online hybrid sf series Halcyon Sun and audio dramas for the Big Finish company, including the Doctor Who radio plays Immortal Beloved and Brave New Town.

He has worked as a translator, voice actor, or dubbing director on over 70 anime, including Grey: Digital Target, Musashi: Dream of the Last Samurai and Sol Bianca. He has presented several seasons of the TV series Route Awake ning ( National Geographic), an investigation of Chinese culture and history. His book Anime: A History (British Film Institute) received a 2014 CHOICE recommendation as one of the year’s outstanding academic titles, and was nominated for the Society of Animation Studies’ McLaren-Lambart Award for best scholarly book. He was a Visiting Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China from 2013-19. He is the co-author of The Dorama Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Television Drama Since 1953 and The Anime Encyclopedia: A Century of Japanese Animation (both for Stone Bridge Press). His books are available in over a dozen languages, including Chinese editions of his biographies of the First Emperor and Empress Wu. Dr Jonathan Clements is the author of many books on East Asian history, including biographies of Marco Polo, Admiral Togo, Khubilai Khan and A Brief History of the Samurai.

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