Book ID: CBB001550705

Pictures of Foreign Countries: Japanese Empire's Maps on Asia (2011)

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Kobayashi, Shigeru (Author)


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Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Japanese.
Physical Details: iv + 282 pp.
Language: Japanese

In Gaih zu, professional geographer Shigeru Kobayashi depicts the history of Japan's map-making activity deployed outside of its current boundary. Starting as the “modernization” of cartographic practices, or catching up to the “global standard,” it subsequently expanded over the Japanese Archipelago and culminated in 1945, when its territory shrank and former maps drawn by the Empire were redefined as “pictures of foreign countries.” In this book, the trained geographer sheds more light on geographic practices, with ample illustrations and detailed episodes, than geopolitical discourses. However, according to Thongchai Winichakul, it is the modern geographical knowledge and technology that constructed the boundaries of/between nation-states as cultural/political artifacts (Winichakul 1994). In this regard, science and technology studies (STS) scholars could read the geographical knowledge-making practices described in this book from their own perspectives, possibly focusing more on the dynamic interactions between knowledge and politics.

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Authors & Contributors
Foliard, Daniel
Tsukahara, Togo
Christmas, Sakura Marcelle
Nasiri-Moghaddam, Nader
Chen, Wei-ti
Ben-Bassat, Yuval
Concepts
Imperialism
Japan, colonies
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Colonialism
Geography
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
18th century
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
20th century
Places
Japan
China
Taiwan
Russia
Germany
Korea
Institutions
Taihoku Teikoku Daigaku
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