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Description

1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations (some color)

text txt rdacontent

computer c rdamedia

online resource cr rdacarrier

Series

Asian visual cultures

Asian visual cultures.

JSTOR EBA.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-310) and index.

Contents

The master of the form -- The new China and Chinese-Americanness -- Performing Japan in the 'World of Tomorrow' -- From 'panda diplomacy' to acrobat diplomacy -- Fashion, dance, and representing the Filipina -- Performing modernity under Sukarno's 'roving eye' -- Maximizing affect, minimizing impact with Hansik -- Hard and soft power in the Thai pavilion.

Summary

International expositions or "world's fairs" are the largest and most important stage on which millions routinely gather to directly experience, express, and respond to cultural difference. Rather than looking at Asian representation at the hands of colonizing powers, something already much examined, this book instead focuses on expressions of an empowered Asian self-representation at world's fairs in the West after the so-called golden age of the exhibition. New modes of representation became possible as the older "exhibitionary order" of earlier fairs gave way to a dominant "performative order," one increasingly preoccupied with generating experience and affect. Using case studies of national representation at selected fairs over the hundred-year period from 1915-2015, this book considers both the politics of representation as well as what happens within the imaginative worlds of Asian country pavilions, where the performative has become the dominant mode for imprinting directly on human bodies

Note

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 09, 2020).

Local Note

JSTOR

Subject

Self-perception -- Asia.

National characteristics, Asian.

Exhibitions -- Asia -- History.

Perception de soi -- Asie.

Asiatiques.

Theory of art.

Performance art.

Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.

International trade.

POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.

Exhibitions (OCoLC)fst00918097

National characteristics, Asian (OCoLC)fst01739638

Self-perception (OCoLC)fst01111797

Asia (OCoLC)fst01240495

Genre/Form

History (OCoLC)fst01411628

ISBN

9789048536788 (electronic book)

9048536782 (electronic book)