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Tag Archives: East Asia
The Archive Box #2: Japanese Judokas, Brazilian Black Belts
By João Júlio Gomes dos Santos Júnior*, State University of Ceará The Archive Box is a series featuring global urban historians reflecting on their archival experience, and on the practical and theoretical challenges they faced while working with a variety … Continue reading
Cartographies of Global Connectivity in Interwar Japan
By Jeffrey C. Guarneri, University of Wisconsin-Madison Japan’s interwar period (1918-1941) was a time of profound changes in Japan’s ports of international trade, cities which simultaneously helped to drive Japan’s rise to world economic power status during World War I … Continue reading
The City as a Palimpsest and Crucible of National Identity
By Alexander C. Diener, University of Kansas, and Joshua Hagen, Northern State University The tendency of successive regimes to rework commemorative landscapes speaks to the intrinsic and intricate linkages between place, memory, and identity. We affix memories and identities to urban space … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Central Asia, Commemoration, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Memorials, Memory, Monuments, North America, Spatial History
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Searching for Meiji-Tokyo: Heterogeneous Visual Media and the Turn to Global Urban History, Digitalization, and Deep Learning
By Beate Löffler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Carola Hein, Delft University of Technology, and Tino Mager, Delft University of Technology For a long time, urban history, as a field of study, focused on textual sources and elite subjects, and the scholars … Continue reading
Remodeling Tianjin: A New History of Globalization in a Chinese City
Pierre Singaravélou, Tianjin Cosmopolis: Une autre histoire de la mondialisation, Paris, Seuil, 2017. 384 pp., € 24.00. Reviewed by Gabriel Doyle, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales In the study of European imperialism in China, the Boxer rebellion that … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Colonialism, East Asia, Imperialism, Municipality, Trade, War
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Some Reflections on Imperial Port Cities in the Age of Steam
Lasse Heerten, Freie Universität Berlin, and Daniel Tödt, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin Let’s judge some books by their covers. In the recently flourishing literature on global and imperial history, port cities have become ubiquitous icons, visual shorthand … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Atlantic, Colonialism, Commodities, Communication, East Asia, Economic History, Empire, Europe, Imperialism, Indian Ocean, Industry, Infrastructure, Ports, Trade, Transport
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Japan’s Urban Colonial Past and the Problem of Commemoration
Emer O’Dwyer, Oberlin College In January of this year, Miura Hideyuki, a journalist for the Asahi shinbun, was awarded the Kaikō Ken Memorial Nonfiction Prize for his work of reportage, Five-Colored Rainbow (Goshiki no niji, Shūeisha, 2015). In it, Miura … Continue reading
Imperial Cities as Cultural Nodes: A View from Early Twentieth-Century Tokyo
Jordan Sand, Georgetown University I recently published a collection of essays exploring the culture of the Japanese empire. It proved impossible to talk about this subject without talking about other empires, which provided the institutional models and many of the material … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Art, Colonialism, East Asia, Education, Empire, Japan, Migration, Painting, Paris, Tokyo, Universities
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Global Urban History 