Nature of the Beasts

Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo

AvIan Jared Miller

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan’s emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution—at once museum, laboratory, and prison—of the zoological garden. In this eye-opening study of Japan’s first modern zoo, Tokyo’s Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan’s rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world. As the first zoological garden in the world not built under the sway of a Western imperial regime, the Ueno Zoo served not only as a staple attraction in the nation’s capital—an institutional marker of national accomplishment—but also as a site for the propagation of a new “natural” order that was scientifically verifiable and evolutionarily foreordained. As the Japanese empire grew, Ueno became one of the primary sites of imperialist spectacle, a microcosm of the empire that could be traveled in the course of a single day. The meaning of the zoo would change over the course of Imperial Japan’s unraveling and subsequent Allied occupation. Today it remains one of Japan’s most frequently visited places. But instead of empire in its classic political sense, it now bespeaks the ambivalent dominion of the human species over the natural environment, harkening back to its imperial roots even as it asks us to question our exploitation of the planet’s resources.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-01-05
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:University of California Press
Medarbetare:Harriet Ritvo
ISBN:9780520377523

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Ian Jared Miller teaches Japanese history at Harvard University.

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"A triumph. . . .archival richness. . . .analytic dexterity and elegant writing."

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FiguresForeword by Harriet RitvoAcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationINTRODUCTIONJapan’s Ecological ModernityI. Animals in the AnthropoceneII. Ecological Modernity in JapanIII. The Natural World as ExhibitionPART ONEThe Nature of CivilizationCHAPTER ONE:Japan’s Animal Kingdom: The Origins of Ecological Modernity and the Birth of the ZooI. Bringing Politics to LifeII. Sorting Animals Out in Meiji JapanIII. Animals in the Exhibitionary ComplexIV. The Ueno ZooV. Ishikawa Chiyomatsu and the Evolution of ExhibitionVI. Bigot’s JapanCHAPTER TWO:The Dreamlife of Imperialism: Commerce, Conquest, and the Naturalization of Ecological ModernityI. The Dreamlife of EmpireII. The Nature of EmpireIII. Nature Behind GlassIV. Backstage at the ZooV. The Illusion of LibertyVI. Imperial TrophiesVII. Imperial NaturePART TWOThe Culture of Total WarCHAPTER THREE:Military Animals: The Zoological Gardens and the Culture of Total WarI. Military AnimalsII. Mobilizing the Animal WorldIII. The Eye of the TigerIV. Animal SoldiersV. Horse PowerCHAPTER FOUR: The Great Zoo MassacreI. Tokyo, 1943II. A Strange Sort of CeremonyIII. Mass-Mediated SacrificeIV. The Taxonomy of a MassacreV. The Killing FloorVI. And Then There Were TwoPART THREEAfter EmpireCHAPTER FIVE: The Children’s Zoo: Elephant Ambassadors and Other Creatures of the Allied OccupationI. Bambi Goes to TokyoII. Empire After EmpireIII. Neo-Colonial PotlatchIV. “Animal Kindergarten”V. Occupied Japan’s Elephant ManiaVI. Elephant AmbassadorsCHAPTER SIX: Pandas in the Anthropocene: Japan’s “Panda Boom” and the Limits of Ecological ModernityI. The “Panda Boom”II. The Science of CharismaIII. Panda DiplomacyIV. “Living Stuffed Animals”V. The Biotechnology of CuteEPILOGUE: The Sorrows of Ecological ModernityNotesBibliographyIndext

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