Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations

Study Materials

[VJx] = Visualizing Japan MOOC

[VC] = Visualizing Cultures

[VPT] = Visualizing Postwar Tokyo I - UTokyo MOOC

SES #	TOPICS / STUDY MATERIALS
1	Introduction to the course
Module 1: Black Ships and Samurai (BS &S)
2	BS & S I: Opening of Japan, beginning of Westernization; Japanese history up to Perry Study [VJx]: Day 1 - About the Course Day 2 - Introduction: Original Sources for the Perry Encounter Day 3 - Historical context: Medieval and Early Modern Japan Day 4 - Japan in the Pacific and the World Study [VC]: BS & S, Introduction
3	BS & S II: How did the Japanese visualize the Americans, and the Americans, the Japanese? Study [VJx]: Day 5 - Introduction: Imaging Japan, 1853 Day 6 - Perry’s Expeditions Day 7 - American Barbarians in the Eyes of the Japanese Study [VC]: BS & S, Perry BS & S, Black Ships
4	Facing East, facing West Study [VJx]: Day 8 - Shore Life in the Eyes of the Americans Day 9 - Encounters Day 10 - The Significance of the Perry Encounter Study [VC]: BS & S, Facing “East” BS & S, Facing “West”
5	Transition: After Perry: Historical overview of the transition from Perry to Russo-Japanese War Study [VJx]: Day 11 - Yokohama Boomtown and Meiji Modernization Day 12 - The Rise of Imperial Japan Study [VC]: Yokohama Boomtown: Introduction, Chaos, Commerce, Boomtown, Interactions, Internationalism
6	Group Activity
Module 2: Social Protest in Imperial Japan: The Hibiya Riot of 1905
7	Social protest and the media Study [VJx]: Day 13 - Introduction Day 14 - Media Study [VC]: Social Protest in Imperial Japan Making News Graphic Challenging the State
8	Imperial democracy Study [VJx]: Day 15 - The Urban Crowd Day 16 - Targets and Motivations Day 17 - Imperial Democracy Study [VC]: Social Protest in Imperial Japan Identifying “the People” Democracy & the Crowd
Module 3: Transition from Hibiya to Shiseido
9	From Hibiya to Shiseido—Shiseido: Consumer culture, cosmopolitanism Study [VJx]: Day 18 - The Era of Popular Protest Day 19 - Modernity and the Masses in Interwar Japan Day 20 - Introduction: Art and Commerce in an Age of Mass Production Day 21 - Cosmopolitan Ginza
10	Shiseido & modernity Study [VJx]: Day 22 - Advertising and the Shiseido Network Day 23 - Tradition and Modernity Day 24 - Gender, Labor, and the State Study [VC]: Selling Shiseido: Cosmetics Advertizing & Design in Early 20th Century Japan Introduction Cosmopolitan Glamour
11	Conclusion of “Visualizing Japan” on edX Study [VJx]: Day 25 - Modernity, Militarism, and War Study [VC]: Selling Shiseido: Cosmetics Advertizing & Design in Early 20th Century Japan Marketing Beauty Luxury & Thrift in Wartime
12	Making of “Visualizing Japan” on edX
13	Student presentations on the Shiseido assignment
14	Student presentations (cont.)
15	Visualization and history
Module 4: “Visualizing Postwar Tokyo” — UTokyo MOOC
16	Occupation and Americanism Study [VPT]: 1.1: Views from The U.S. Air Force (5:38) 1.2: Views from People in Tokyo (4:18) 1.3: The U.S. Army as a Camera (7:10) 1.4: Sudden Americanized Lives (11.29) 1.5: Occupation in the Center of Tokyo (6:51)
17	Occupation and Americanism (cont.) Study [VPT]: 1.6: Washington Heights and Harajuku (8:08) 1.7: Shonan Beach (6:11) 1.8: From a Military City to a Commercial City (12:45) 1.9: Tokyo: Imperial City / Colonial City (12:29) Group activity: Authority in photography 1 A&B
18	Imperial gaze and royal wedding Study [VPT]: 2.1: Entrance and Disappearance of the Emperor (8:39) 2.2: Tokyo: Imperial Capital (6:55) 2.3: Occupying the Emperor’s Image (9:32) 2.4: Reconstructing the Emperor’s Image (10:01) 2.5: Imperial Palace after the War (10:31)
19	Special guest lecture 1
20	Special guest lecture 2
21	Imperial gaze and royal wedding (cont.) Study [VPT]: 2.1: Entrance and Disappearance of the Emperor (8:39) 2.2: Tokyo: Imperial Capital (6:55) 2.3: Occupying the Emperor’s Image (9:32) 2.4: Reconstructing the Emperor’s Image (10:01) 2.5: Imperial Palace after the War (10:31)
22	Group project preparation: Continue to prepare for your play. If you cannot come, be sure to stay in close touch with your group.
23	Presenting your play about the occupation; also individual consultations on your final project
24	“Four Facets of Contemporary Japanese Architecture” — UTokyo MOOC
25	Individual consultation for the final paper
26	Student presentation
27	Student presentation (cont.)