The Nature of The Beasts :: Empire and Exhibition at The Tokyo Imperial Zoo /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Miller, Ian Jared, 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2013]
Schriftenreihe:Asia--local studies/global themes ; 27.
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Zusammenfassung: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 study of Japan's first modern zoo, Tokyo's Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, the author offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan's rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxvii, 322 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-322) and index.
ISBN:9780520952102
0520952103
129967738X
9781299677388