Reading & Resources - Canons and Cannons: Japanese Public Culture in the First Half of the 20th Century

[Crystal Hsia]

To have a better and more helpful learning experience, please check out the recourses recommended by Prof. Noriko Aso. 

☞ Required to check out before the workshop:

1. Bodies and Structures (1.0) and (2.0): These are two Scalar sites that focus on spatiality in Asian history. The first (experimental) version centers on Japan; the second encompasses the first but adds modules to engage more broadly with East Asian history. This is the second volume’s list of modules, which includes my module (Japan) and my brother’s module (Vietnam). 

☞ Websites:  

1. Asia for Educators: This Columbia University site is largely composed of short essays, but the coverage in terms of both time span and region is broad.
2. The National Diet Library, Japan Digital Exhibitions: This site has exhibitions in both Japanese and English, and range from what is basically a portrait gallery to more sophisticated examinations of, for example, Japan and the golden age of expositions. This site also has early modern materials. 
3. Visualizing Cultures: This MIT site was a pioneering digital project for Asian history that offers curated visual artifacts accompanied by scholarly essays by top figures in their fields. Most of the units are divided between China and Japan, but they continue to add content. 
4. Museums: For art – Japan Folk Craft Museum (Mingeikan); Ohara Museum of Art; Tokyo National e-Museum; For war– Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum; Himeyuri Peace Museum; Yasukuni Shrine Museum (Yushukan)

 

☞Books on Japanese Visual Culture–First Half of the Twentieth Century:

 

1. Brandt, Kim. Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan.
2. Hori, Hikari. Japan’s Promiscuous Media: Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan, 1926-1945.
3. Loo, Tse May. Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa’s Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879-2000.
4. Tansman, Alan, ed. The Culture of Japanese Fascism.
5. Tseng, Alice. Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868-1940.
6. Weisenfeld, Gennifer. Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923.

[Crystal Hsia]

Canons and Cannons: Japanese Public Culture in the First Half of the 20th Century - Noriko Aso, University of California, Santa Cruz

This is the recording of the 9/17 workshop. Feel free to post any thoughts or feedback here below.

 

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