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The Nature of the Beasts - Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo (Hardcover)
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The Nature of the Beasts - Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo (Hardcover)
Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes, 27
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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 eye-opening study of
Japan's first modern zoo, Tokyo's Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens,
opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly
unconventional narrative of Japan's rapid modernization and
changing relationship with the natural world. As the first
zoological garden in the world not built under the sway of a
Western imperial regime, the Ueno Zoo served not only as a staple
attraction in the nation's capital - an institutional marker of
national accomplishment - but also as a site for the propagation of
a new "natural" order that was scientifically verifiable and
evolutionarily foreordained. As the Japanese empire grew, Ueno
became one of the primary sites of imperialist spectacle, a
microcosm of the empire that could be traveled in the course of a
single day. The meaning of the zoo would change over the course of
Imperial Japan's unraveling and subsequent Allied occupation. Today
it remains one of Japan's most frequently visited places. But
instead of empire in its classic political sense, it now bespeaks
the ambivalent dominion of the human species over the natural
environment, harkening back to its imperial roots even as it asks
us to question our exploitation of the planet's resources.
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