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Imperial Objects and Transpacific Subjects: China, Japan, and the United States at World's Fairs 1876-1915 / Z. Serena Qiu.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Qiu, Z. Serena, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art history.
- Asian American studies.
- History of Art--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--History of Art.
- Local Subjects:
- Art history.
- Asian American studies.
- History of Art--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--History of Art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 pages)
- Contained In:
- Dissertations Abstracts International 84-08A.
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania, 2022.
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2022
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Imperial Objects and Transpacific Subjects explores the manifold constructions of transpacific empire as an accumulation of visual representations and political actions connecting the United States, China, and Japan at world's fairs. My project serves two purposes. First, I propose that the control of representational legibility, the disciplinary function of new epistemologies, and the material reproduction of hegemonic ideologies were expositionary tools through which the United States, China, and Japan negotiated uneven distributions of political power. Second, I demonstrate how "Chinese" and "Japanese" were constructed as racial categories through compounding visual representations at and around world's fairs. These racializations were contradictory, mutable, and inextricably intertwined with shifting visual understandings of indigenous, Black, and white populations that circulated the Pacific. Activating methods in Asian Americanist discourse, I explore the consequences of such "Chinese" and "Japanese" visibility in transpacific legislation, expansionist imperial capitalism, academic knowledge production, and the long afterlives of expositions.
- Notes:
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-08, Section: A.
- Advisors: Leja, Michael; Committee members: Dombrowski, Andre; Rujivacharakul, Vimalin.
- Department: History of Art.
- Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2022.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175
- ISBN:
- 9798374414943
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
- This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
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