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N.Y.K. Nagasaki-maru and Shanghai-maru deck plans
12018-09-19T21:36:11-04:00David Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d23814527721Deck plans of the N.Y.K.'s twin ships the Nagasaki-maru and the Shanghai-maru, published approximately at the time the ships were put into service in 1923. Courtesy Okabayashi Takatoshi.plain2018-09-19T21:36:11-04:001923Public domainDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
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12018-09-19T21:40:36-04:00David Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277Third-class dining room and pantry.David Ambaras2plain2018-09-19T21:50:47-04:00David Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12018-09-19T21:42:38-04:00David Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277First-class social hall.David Ambaras2plain2018-09-19T21:50:48-04:00David Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12018-09-19T21:43:10-04:00David Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277First-class smoking room and café veranda.David Ambaras1plain2018-09-19T21:43:10-04:00David Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
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12018-07-15T20:37:01-04:00Embodied mobilities68plain2018-09-19T22:57:16-04:00David R. AmbarasWe can say more: The story of Ogura Nobu (and Chen Zhaopin, though he is even more silent/silenced than she), highlights the need to explore the material and discursive experiences of border crossing and mobility, and the contextualized histories of the bodies that move. For example, part of a deep map of this subject would have to extend to the materiality of the route, including the third-class passage on the ferry that carried Ogura Nobu and Chen Zhaopin from Kobe to Shanghai for roughly 23 yen each. "The suffocatingly hot smell wafting up along the accommodation ladder from the large tatami-matted area below where the general passengers travel is really quite something," wrote the poet Kaneko Mitsuharu, who traveled third class in 1928. "This may be the genuine stench of that living thing called humanity." (This a far cry from the posh amenities for the more affluent passengers and the lifestyle they advertised, with luxury first-class compartments costing 180 to 230 yen). This history would also extend to the network of Chinese lodging houses, coastal steamers, and overland transport that conveyed migrants between Shanghai and Fuqing. It would also have to capture the careful preparation of stories, the altering of appearances (Ogura Nobu was hardly the only woman to try to pass as a Chinese for the journey), the tension and apprehension accompanying checkpoint interviews (comparable to that experienced by colonial subjects), and so on. Mobilities research must attend to factors such as ethnicity, gender, class, age, place of origin, household structure, and prior experiences and future expectations — not mention the contingent political conditions — under which such movement was undertaken. Moving bodies took shape as products of social processes (what Leslie Adelson calls embodiment, the “making and doing the work of bodies” and “becoming a body in social space”).
