Morris Low

Japan on Display (eBook, PDF)

Photography and the Emperor

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The author explores the role of science and photography in representations of Japan and Emperors Mutsuhito and Hirohito, covering a period of over a hundred years from the Meiji period through the Emperor Hirohito's death in 1989.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134195831
• Artikelnr.: 42641301

Autorenporträt

Morris Low is professor of East Asian sciences and technology at Johns Hopkins University. His previous publications include Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan (1999); Science, Technology and R&D in Japan (2001); Asian Masculinities (2003); Building a Modern Japan (2005); and Science and the Building of a New Japan (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations. 1. Imagining the Emperor 2. The Death of the Meiji
Emperor 3. Hybridity and the Whiteness of the Japanese 4. Collecting
Manchuria 5. The Emperor's Sons go to War 6. The Emperor, Imperial Tours
and the Tokyo Olympics 7. Techno-Nationalism and the Family 8. The Emperor
as Scientist. Epilogue: The Death of the Shôwa Emperor