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Visualizing Cultures is working with a growing roster of scholars and curators to develop content using images from the historical record to illuminate the modern history of Asia and the West. The following individuals have written or contributed to the production of units that are currently available or in preparation. Jacqueline Atkins Kate Fowler Merle-Smith Curator of Textiles, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA http://www.allentownartmuseum.org/index.html Jacqueline Atkins developed an exhibit and catalog of World War II propaganda textiles produced by opposing sides of the war. British, U.S., and Japanese textiles featured in an exhibit that premiered at Bard Center for the Arts in 2005 include hitherto all-but-unknown wartime Japanese apparel for men, women, and children. Units: Wearing Propaganda (in development) John W. Dower Ford International Professor of History, MIT & Co-Director of Visualizing Cultures http://mit.edu/jdower/www Professor Dower’s many publications include War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War, Empire and Aftermath, and Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays. His most recent book, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, won numerous honors including the Pulitzer Prize in Letters for General Non-fiction. Professor Dower’s units focus on Japan’s emergence as a modern and imperialist state, beginning with the arrival of Commodore Perry in 1853. Units: Black Ships & Samurai; Yokohama Boomtown; Throwing Off Asia I, II, III; Asia Rising; Yellow Promise/Yellow Peril; Ground Zero 1945: Pictures by Atomic Bomb Survivors Allen Hockley Associate Professor of Art History, Dartmouth College http://www.dartmouth.edu/~arthist/allen.html Allen Hockley is a specialist in 19th and early-20th-century photography in and about Asia; his work for VC introduces some of the pioneer commercial photography in 19th-century Japan. Units: Felice Beato’s Japan: Places, Globetrotters’ Japan: Places, Globetrotters’ Japan: People Peter Perdue Professor of Chinese History, Yale University Formerly T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations, MIT http://www.yale.org Peter Perdue is author of Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan 1500-1850 A.D. and China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. An expert on Chinese economic history, Prof. Perdue is preparing units on China’s place in the global economy beginning with the Canton Trade System of the late-18th and early-19th centuries. Units: China in the Early Modern World (in development) Akihiro Takahashi Former Director, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/index_e2.html A schoolboy in Hiroshima when the first atomic bomb was dropped, Mr. Takahashi’s narrative of his personal experience is accompanied by illustrations by Goro Shikoku. Units: Ground Zero 1945: A Schoolboy’s Story Yuki Tanaka Professor, Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University, Japan http://serv.peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/English Author of Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II (Transitions—Asia and Asian America) and Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery & Prostitution during World War II & the US Occupation (Asia's Transformations), Prof. Tanaka is a leading bilingual peace scholar. He provides an introduction to Akihiro Takahashi’s account of the atomic-bomb experience (see above). Units: Ground Zero 1945: A Schoolboy’s Story Gennifer Weisenfeld Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Duke University http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/AAH/faculty/gweisen Gennifer Weisenfeld’s pioneer work on early-20th-century avant-garde and commercial art includes her book Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931. She is working with the extensive archives of the Shiseido cosmetics firm to examine the emergence of consumer culture, commercial advertising, and a feminine ideal in early-20th-century Japan. Units: Modern Women in 20th-Century Japan: Consumer Culture & the Shiseido Experience (in development) Alona C. Wilson Former curator, Smith College Museum of Art http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/index.htm A curator specializing in photography, Alona Wilson introduces a pristine album by the pioneer Western photographer in Japan held by the Smith College Museum of Art. Units: Felice Beato’s Japan: People Anne Yonemura Senior Associate Curator, Japanese Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution http://www.si.edu/ofg/Staffhp/yonemuraa.htm Anne Yonemura’s 1990 catalog Yokohama: Prints from 19th-Century Japan was the inspiration for the VC unit on Japanese woodblock prints depicting foreigners in Japan in the 1860s. Her splendid commentaries on individual prints are incorporated into the image database of this unit. Units: Yokohama Boomtown: Foreigners in Treaty-Port Japan (1859–1872) Anne Nishimura Morse Curator of Japanese Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston http://www.mfa.org/collections/sub.asp?key=22&subkey=109 Several exhibitions curated by Anne Morse at the Boston MFA have been invaluable in preparing VC units that tap the MFA collections. Her exhibition catalogs include A Much Recorded War: The Russo-Japanese War in History and Imagery and the splendid Art of the Japanese Postcard: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Units: Asia Rising, Yellow Promise/Yellow Peril James Ulak Deputy Director, Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution http://www.asia.si.edu Dr. Ulak’s catalog Tokyo: the Imperial Capital will be the basis for a more expansive unit on interwar Tokyo. Units: Interwar Tokyo (in development) Advisors To come Student Researchers Jennifer Yum Graduate Student, Harvard University http://www.harvard.edu Units: Subject: “modern woman” in early-20th-century Korea (in development) |
