Daqing is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at the George Washington University. His research interests include the Japanese empire, technological developments in modern East Asia, and the legacies of World War II. In 2004, Daqing was appointed a Historical Consultant to The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group at the U.S. National Archives. He is a founding co-director of the Memory and Reconciliation in the Asia Pacific program based in the Sigur Center for Asian Studies. He is the author of Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883-1945. He co-edited the following books include: Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia; Toward a History Beyond Borders: Contentious Issues in Sino-Japanese Relations and Memory, Identity, and Commemorations of World War II: Anniversary Politics in Asia Pacific. Daqing received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he specialized in the history of modern Japan.