Issue 1.2 Collecting Asias (Fall 2015)

Table of Contents, Volume 1 – Issue2
Special Issue: Collecting Asias

Editors’ Introduction

Of Asian Boxes …. | Charlotte Eubanks and Jonathan E. Abel

Convergence

Portfolio

Avant-Garde in the South Seas: Akamatsu Toshiko’s Micronesia Sketches | Curated by Charlotte Eubanks

Interface

Introduction: Re/Collecting | Adeline Koh

Digitizing Chinese Englishmen: Creating a Nineteenth-Century “Postcolonial Archive” | Adeline Koh

The Re/Collecting Project and Rethinking Archives and Archival Practice | Grace I. Yeh

Collecting, Curating, and Presenting “3-11” with Harvard’s Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters | Eric G. Dinmore

Field Trip

The Utility of Aesthetics: Exhibition, Pedagogy, and Critical Questions for Postcolonialism | Jonathan E. Abel and Christopher Reed

A & Q

From the Imperial Atelier to the Global Display: The Past, Present, and Futures of Mughal Collections | Madhuri Desai

Essays

The Pocket and the Watch: A Collective Individualist Reading of Japanese American Literature | Andrew Leong

The Liminal Collection: Vietnamese Handicraft at the Smithsonian| Jennifer Way

Collecting for Peace: Memories and Objects of the Asia-Pacific War | Akiko Takenaka

The Smithsonian Beside Itself: Exhibiting Indian Americans in the Era of New India | Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan

Orientalia, Bibliophilia, Fetish: A Play in Three Acts | John Whittier Treat

 

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