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