The book, edited by Yuko Kikuchi, contains an anthology of essays written about the Taiwanese art movement in the mid-1990s. According to the book cover, the nine essays included 'present different perspectives on Taiwanese visual culture and landscape during the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945), focusing variously on travel writings, Western and Japanese/Oriental-style paintings, architecture, aboriginal and material culture and crafts. Issues addressed include the imagined Taiwan and the "discovery" of the Taiwanese landscape, which developed into the imperial ideology of nangoku (southern country); the problematic idea of "local colour," which was imposed by Japanese, and its relation to the "nativism" that was embraced by Taiwanese; the gendered modernity exemplified in the representation of Chinese/Taiwanese women; and the development of Taiwanese artefacts and crafts from colonial to postcolonial times, from their discovery, aestheticization, and industrialisation to their commodification by the colonizers and the colonized.'

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Onsite

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REF.KIY3
Language

English

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Publication/Creation date

2007

No of pages

285

ISBN / ISSN

9780824830502

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Chapter 1 — Colonial Encounters: Japanese Travel Writing on Colonial Taiwan

Chapter 2 — The Beauty of the Untamed: Exploration and Travel in Colonial Taiwanese Landscape Painting

Chapter 3 — Japanese Landscape Painting and Taiwan: Modernity, Colonialism, and National Identity

Chapter 4 — The Demise of Oriental-style Painting in Taiwan

Chapter 5 — The Changing Representation of Women in Modern Japanese Paintings

Chapter 6 — Modernity, Power, and Gender: Images of Women by Taiwanese Female Artists under Japanese Rule

- LAI Mingzhu, 賴明珠

Chapter 7 — Taiwanese in Japanese Period Architecture in Taiwan

Chapter 8 — Taiwanese Aboriginal Art and Artefacts: Entangled Images of Colonisation and Modernisation

Chapter 9 — Refracted Colonial Modernity: Vernacularism in the Development of Modern Taiwanese Crafts

Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan
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Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan