Bodies and Structures 2.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian HistoryMain MenuGet to Know the SiteGuided TourShow Me HowA click-by-click guide to using this siteModulesRead the seventeen spatial stories that make up Bodies and Structures 2.0Tag MapExplore conceptsComplete Grid VisualizationDiscover connectionsGeotagged MapFind materials by geographic locationLensesCreate your own visualizationsWhat We LearnedLearn how multivocal spatial history changed how we approach our researchAboutFind information about contributors and advisory board members, citing this site, image permissions and licensing, and site documentationTroubleshootingA guide to known issuesAcknowledgmentsThank youDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThis project was made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Modes of Ordering and Othering
12020-09-11T17:37:40-04:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f352Subtagplain2020-10-16T16:06:32-04:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fSubtag of Imaginative Geographies.
1media/guo xuehu 1928 scenery near yuanshan.jpgmedia/guoxuehu.jpg2019-11-18T17:20:14-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fGuo Xuehu's Early Career and Paintings62Taiwan Fine Arts Exhibition; nihonga; seiyōga; tōyōga; art historiansimage_header51132021-10-04T17:30:47-04:0037.93575, -122.34774Richmond, California25.04537, 121.52253Tōkyō35.6833, 139.7833Kyōto35.0000, 135.75001908-2012Magdalena KolodziejGuo XuehuKabayama Elementary School, location of the first Taiwan Fine Arts ExhibitionKate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f
12019-11-18T15:49:55-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fBackground: About Dianshizhai43The Most Popular Pictorial From Semi-Colonial Shanghaiplain2021-09-29T16:08:42-04:0031.2222, 121.4581Shanghai1884-1898Wu Youru 吳友如. Dianshizhai huabao 點石齋畫報 (Wenchunguan comp., 問淳館主人署) 4 volumes.Wu Youru 吳友如 (Zunyange zhuren 尊聞閣主人, ed.). 申江勝景圖 Shenjiang shengjing tu. Beijing : Quan guo tu shu guan wen xian suo wei fu zhi zhong xin, 2005．Nathaniel IsaacsonDianshizhai huabaoShenbaoWusong RailwayKate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f
12019-11-18T15:49:56-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Wusong Railway in Western Media43Anglophone Descriptions of the Wusong Railwayplain2021-09-29T16:11:35-04:0031.2222,121.458151.5142, -0.0931LondonShanghai09/02/1876Nathaniel IsaacsonWusong RailwayTianjin RailwayIllustrated London NewsDianshizhai huabaoKate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f
12020-07-28T09:40:04-04:00Michitake Asoc957806dd05559bbe07c540e9ab4cd46aae194d3Sinosphere Cartographies28Background Information for northern Vietnamplain2021-10-05T10:26:25-04:001800-1900Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f
12019-11-18T15:49:58-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fTrains as Threat25Discussion of Opposition to Trains and Railwaysplain2021-09-29T16:59:25-04:001895Fyfe, Paul. "Illustrating the Accident: Railways and the Catastrophic Picturesque in "The Illustrated London News"." Victorian Periodicals Review 46, no. 1 (2013): 61-91.Nathaniel IsaacsonDianshizhai huabaoHarper's WeeklyKate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f
1media/QingAn.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:25-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Deity-Welcoming Festivals: Critiques22This page explores criticisms leveled at the deity-welcoming festivals, by Japanese and Taiwanese, during the 1920s and 1930s.plain2021-10-04T12:38:17-04:0025.1283, 121.7419Jilong08/25/1926-1933Evan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyJilong Customs Assimilation AssociationKate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f
1media/The newlyweds pose outside the Atami Ocean Hotel 1 January 1941.jpg2020-10-01T08:56:09-04:00Emily Chapman9aa15229f49d5b5afe6489db95cf941cf40d67a5Otōsan kameraman20What makes a cameraman father?plain2021-09-28T11:10:00-04:00Shinjuku35.67883, 139.717651948-1970Emily ChapmanMeiji Memorial Picture GalleryYoikoKate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f
12020-07-31T17:32:20-04:00Michitake Asoc957806dd05559bbe07c540e9ab4cd46aae194d3Cartographies of Revolution19Background information for northern Vietnamplain2021-10-05T10:41:07-04:00Michitake AsoKate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f
1media/QingAn.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:30-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Failure of Japanese Colonization of Taiwan's Sacred Geography19This page explores the very limited extent to which Japan achieved a takeover of Taiwan's sacred geography in Jilong.plain51382022-05-26T09:44:41-04:0025.1283, 121.7419Jilong1868-1944Evan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyYasukuni ShrineQing'an TempleLingquan TempleKate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f
12019-11-18T17:21:24-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Postwar and the Reconsecration/Reinforcement of Sacred Space18This page discusses the fate of Japanese sacred spaces, and the reinvigoration of Taiwanese, following the end of Japanese rule.plain2021-06-16T14:09:36-04:0025.1283, 121.7419Jilong1945-1992Evan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyDianji TempleQing'an TempleLingquan TempleJilong ShrineShrine to the National MartyrsTaiwan ShrineKandra Polatis4decfc04157f6073c75cc53dcab9d25e87c02133
1media/QingAn.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:27-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Jilong Shrine: Expansion18This page explores the expansion and renovation of the Jilong Shrine over the course of several decades.plain2021-10-04T12:31:07-04:0025.13161, 121.74693Jilong1912-1934Evan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyJilong ShrineHiroshima Residents AssociationJilong Women's AssociationOkinawa Residents AssociationKate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f
12020-04-30T18:05:34-04:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Limits of Geolocating the Photographer17Post-War Pre-Base Okinawan Landscapesplain167492022-01-11T17:50:56-05:001949-1954Dustin WrightGail, CharlesDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12020-04-30T18:05:25-04:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fJournaling Home10image_header2021-10-08T16:07:17-04:0034.70298, 135.49527Ōsaka1939-1943Noriko AsoMitsukoshiNew OrderGreater East Asian Co-Prosperity SphereKate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f
12020-04-30T18:05:17-04:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fA Path Not Taken9The aftermath of Nihon honkokumin ni atau.plain2021-10-08T20:08:07-04:0035.6833, 139.7833Tōkyō31.2222, 121.4581Shanghai29.43367, 106.91027Chongqing1931-1946Kate McDonaldCai PeihuoGovernment General of TaiwanKuomintangKate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f
12020-04-30T18:05:25-04:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fTokyo Rises8The aftermath of the firebombing of Tokyo.plain2021-06-16T14:57:16-04:0035.6833, 139.7833TōkyōDavid FedmanIshikawa, KōyōKandra Polatis4decfc04157f6073c75cc53dcab9d25e87c02133
12020-04-30T18:05:21-04:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f"All Equal Under the Emperor's Gaze"8This page describes how Cai used the idea of equality to argue for self ruleplain2021-06-16T16:21:08-04:0035.6833, 139.7833Tōkyō1924Kate McDonaldCai PeihuoGovernment General of TaiwanKandra Polatis4decfc04157f6073c75cc53dcab9d25e87c02133
12020-04-30T18:07:01-04:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Universal (Male) Suffrage Act6The spatial logic of the Universal (Male) Suffrage Act.plain2021-06-09T11:49:48-04:001925Kate McDonaldDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12020-04-30T18:05:16-04:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fA Different Path6The logic behind Cai's proposal for self-rule in colonial Taiwan.plain2021-06-16T16:14:48-04:001928Kate McDonaldCai PeihuoGovernment General of TaiwanOsaka Mercantile Shipping CompanyKandra Polatis4decfc04157f6073c75cc53dcab9d25e87c02133
12020-04-30T18:05:24-04:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Place of the Indigenous in Cai's Taiwan6This page describes how Cai's manifesto, and the anti-colonial movement generally speaking, reproduced the imperial spatial imaginary in their representations of Taiwan.plain2021-06-16T16:16:09-04:001928-1929Kate McDonaldCai PeihuoTaiwan Indigenous PeopleGovernment General of TaiwanKandra Polatis4decfc04157f6073c75cc53dcab9d25e87c02133
12020-04-30T18:05:34-04:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fFuqingese/Fujianese migrants in Japan since the 1980s5Migration, legal and illegal, in the post-Mao Zedong reform era.plain2021-06-08T12:00:20-04:001945-1984David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
1media/DF-0024.png2020-04-30T18:05:58-04:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Life and Legacy of Ishikawa Kōyō4A brief biography of Ishikawa Kōyō.image_header2022-02-14T14:12:31-05:00David FedmanIshikawa, Kōyō (1904-1989)David Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
