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YANG YU
 
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Faculty of Humanities Department of Philosophy Lecturer
School of Letters Department of Humanities(Concurrent)
Graduate School of Humanities Department of Philosophy(Concurrent)
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Lecturer
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Yang's research focuses on Urban Space and Architecture in East Asia during the twentieth century, in particular, the interaction between colonialism and regionalism in Japan and Colonial Manchuria. She is currently writing a manuscript on the urban space and architecture in colonial Manchuria, focusing on the spatial configuration of the interrelationship among various social groups. Yang has taught in the United States, Japan, and China. At Kyushu University, she teaches a variety of topics in Japanese Art History, Japanese Architectural History, and Modern Japanese History. Yang has planed international symposiums to connect young researchers with senior scholars and to create an international network with Kyudai in the center.
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Degree

  • M.A in Art History

  • M.PhL in Art History

  • Ph.D. in Art History

Research History

  • Instructor for Core Curriculum Art and Humanities, Columbia University 2012/9-2013/8 Research Fellow, Kyoto Institute of Technology, 2013/9-2015/9 Research Fellow, University of Tokyo, 2018/3/1 - 2018/12/31

Research Interests・Research Keywords

  • Research theme:Urban Space and Colonial Architecture in Asia, Residential and Commercial Spaces of the Chinese, Japanese, and Russians in Manchuria during the early twentieth century, East Asian Studies from the Perspective of Global History, Modern Japanese Architecture and Visual Culture

    Keyword:Architecture and Urban Space in Manchuria, Modern Japanese Architecture and Visual Culture, East Asian Studies, Global History Theory, Japanese Art

    Research period: 2014.1

Papers

  • 「反思城市規劃與都市空間研究的烏托邦視角:從歷史地圖考察長春近代都市空間(1899-1932)」(Revisiting the Utopian Perspectives of Urban Studies: Modern Changchun in Historical Maps (1899-1932) Reviewed International journal

    藝術理論與藝術史研究   11   2023.12

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  • “Tuxiang yu kongjian: Changchun jindai shangbudi de kongjian xingcheng he fazhan [Representation and Space: Spatial Configuration and Development of Trading Zone in Modern Changchun].” Invited Reviewed International journal

    2022.12

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  • Shadows of Urban Utopia: Japanese Housing in Colonial Manchuria Reviewed International journal

    YANG Yu

    317 - 322   2021.9

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  • Touring Buildings of Colonial Modernity: Architecture and Tourism in Manchuria (1905-1945) Reviewed International journal

    YANG YU

    EAAC 2015 Gwangju Practical History: History in Practice and Practice in History during the 21st Century   895 - 898   2015.10

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  • Kamisaka Sekka’s Later Works and Kyoto Kōgei Invited Reviewed

    ( 2 )   1 - 10   2014.11

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    Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)  

  • Constructing a Manchurian Identity: Architect Endō Arata and Central Bank Club Reviewed International journal

    73 - 93   2012.5

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  • 屏風の起承転結 Invited Reviewed

    湖上   12   171 - 178   2019.5

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Books

  • Catalogue: Experimental Art at the 12th National Art Exhibition

    Today Art Museum Ed.( Role: Sole translator)

    Today Art Museum Express  2014.9 

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    Language:Others   Book type:Scholarly book

Presentations

  • Reflection on Utopian Manchuria and New Perspectives Invited

    YANG YU

    Brown Bag Seminar  2024.4 

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    Event date: 2024.4

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Japan  

  • 歴史資料としての満洲の地図 Invited

    東洋英和女学院大学  2023.10 

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    Event date: 2023.10

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:東洋英和女学院大学   Country:Japan  

  • Touring Old Lands with New Sights: Representations of Early Japanese Imperial Expansions International conference

    YANG YU

    AAS-in-Asia 2023  2023.6 

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    Event date: 2023.6

    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

    Country:Korea, Republic of  

  • The Land of Aida: Urban Space of Manchuria (1905-1945) Invited International conference

    YANG YU

    Hybrid Workshop between Kyudai and Glasgow University: Space Between/Aidagara: Landscape, Mindscape, Architecture  2023.3 

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    Event date: 2023.3

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:United Kingdom  

  • Embracing Climate and Culture: Depicting Others at Japanese Art Exhibitions 1908-1944 International conference

    YANG YU

    2022.1 

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    Event date: 2022.1

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Brazil  

  • Shadows of Bright Houses: Photographs of Architecture in Colonial Manchuria (1900-1945) International conference

    The 35th Committee International d’Historie de l’Art  2019.9 

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    Event date: 2019.9

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:Florence   Country:Italy  

    During the first half of the twentieth century, Japan’s colonial expansion in East Asia
    brought many Japanese architects to Manchuria, present-day northeast China. They have
    built all over Manchuria—government offices, commercial buildings, and residential
    houses—and left a tremendous collection of visual records. The paper examines
    these photographs from a different perspective, not merely considering them as
    visual propagandas, but to focus on their visual power and function within the
    exchange of people, objects, and ideas between Japan and Manchuria, and the
    relationship between visual representation and space.
    This presentation explores the role of visual representation in defining and shaping the
    residential area in urban Manchuria during the first half of the twentieth century. Taking
    photographs, drawings, and plans of residential houses displayed at the 1921 architectural
    exhibition in Dalian as a case study, I examine Japanese architects’ designs for private
    home and houses, published in architectural journals and displayed in architectural
    exhibitions throughout the 1920s. Photos of houses in Manchuria published in the 1920s
    were used to construct the daily space for a rising upper-middle class different from early
    Japanese settlers, and to promote the housing reform in Japan.
    After the establishment of Manchukuo in 1932, photographs of buildings in
    Manchuria were included in the tourist postcards, one of the most popular
    souvenirs for Japanese group tours in Manchuria that reached the peak around
    1941. In particular, there were significant numbers of photographs of panoramic
    views, public buildings, and construction sites: which functioned as visual allegories
    of Manchukuo’s utopia future. Residential houses or interior of them were no longer
    the center. Tourist postcards include exteriors of residential houses as symbolic icons of
    Japan’s colonial rule. They have turned the buildings into products for the consumption
    of mass tourism.
    In conclusion, photographs, plans, and drawings or residential houses in Manchuria
    during the first half of the twentieth century underwent a changing function. In the
    beginning, they contributed to the construction and consolidation of the daily space
    for the newly arriving upper-middle Japanese in the region. Later, they were
    included as part of the tourist experience by compressing three-dimensional space
    into flat surface and reducing the role of architecture into icons and symbols. The
    case of colonial Manchuria, therefore, illustrates the tension between architecture
    and its visual representation and their fluid boundaries and interchangeability.

  • 「長春の商業空間の形成と変遷-日・中・露の連携と競争を中心に」 Invited

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    2018年度都市史学会大会  2018.12 

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    Event date: 2018.12 - 2020.1

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    Venue:西日本工業大学小倉キャンパス・本館3階303講義室   Country:Japan  

    旧満州における植民地都市空間の研究は、これまで鉄道付属地や官衙(かんが)建築を中心に行われ、日本帝国の拡張と政治的な表象が強調されてきた。しかし、公共建築は満洲に建てられた建物全体の10%に過ぎず、満洲国成立以前の都市空間の変遷は、これまで詳細に検討されてこなかった。近年の歴史研究では、旧満洲におけるロシア・中国・日本の錯綜する軍事、政治や経済の実態が明らかになっている。それゆえ、20世紀前半における多国籍と多民族が共存した満洲の都市空間の多様性と流動性に注目する必要があると考える。

     そこで本発表では、満洲のケーススタディとして、20世紀前半の長春=新京の商業・生活空間に焦点をあて、日・中・露の連携と競争がもたらした都市空間の形成と変遷を明らかにする。具体的には、著者が発見した数枚の古地図を分析し、文献資料と照合しながら、1932年まで長春に共存した日本鉄道付属地とロシア鉄道付属地や中国の城内・商埠地との空間的な相互依存関係を検討する。さらに、現在の長春に残されている商業空間や建物の痕跡をもとに、多層的なローカル空間の存続を指摘する。

     本報告ではとくに以下の2点を明らかにしたい。

     第 1 に、長春の都市空間が、中国・ロシア・日本の連携と競争によって発展したものであったことである。1910年代から1930年代までの地図を比較すると、日・中・露が「城内」に繋がる商業用地を競って開発し、各国が鉄道を敷設することで、大豆など農産物の輸送を実現させた。その結果、日・露鉄道付属地、また城内や商埠地は、多民族・多国籍が雑居する空間となり、日本鉄道付属地に糧棧(穀物問屋)を経営した中国商人の町もできた。

     第 2 に、1910年から1920年まで鉄道敷設をはじめとするインフラ整備により、長春の都市中心は川沿いの西南部から鉄道が集中した北部に移転しつつあったことである。とりわけ1920年代以降、中国の商埠地に「茶園」を中心とした国際的な繁栄街が形成された。本報告では、このような商業空間が、1932年満洲国の首都計画にどのような影響を与えたのかに着目し現在の長春にある旧城内・商埠地の痕跡を検証し、1990年代まで繁栄街であったことを明らかにする。

     以上のように、本発表では、20世紀前半、日・中・露三国の軍事、政治と経済の錯綜する土地である長春が、流動的で多層的な都市空間だったことを明らかにし、植民地支配とローカル空間の複雑な関係を具体的にしめしたい。

  • Urban Configuration and Transformation in Colonial Manchuria: Collaborations and Competitions Among Multi-Ethnic Communities International conference

    YANG YU

    2018.10 

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    Country:Korea, Republic of  

    This paper examines the previously unexplored layers of urban Manchuria (present Northeast China) during the first half of the twentieth century. Current studies on the urban planning and architecture have mainly used the Japanese archives, emphasized the role of Japanese imperial power, and focused on the Japanese railway settlements. This paper examines a variety of newly discovered archives and maps to illustrate that the collaborations and competitions among Russian, Chinese, and Japanese population mutually shaped the formation of urban cities in Manchuria and transformed the region into an international, commercial center.
    This paper focuses on the urban developments of Russian and Chinese neighborhoods and their interrelationships with the Japanese quarters in major cities, such as Dalian and Fengtian. I trace the rise and fall of Russian settlements and how the Chinese and Japanese modified former Russian buildings for their own purposes. More importantly, I reveal the interdependent relationships between Japanese settlements and Chinese neighborhoods in trade, railway operation, and daily life, which were represented by shared commercial spaces, overlapping boundaries, and mixed residential spaces. Furthermore, my examination of the Japanese writings on Chinese houses reveals that rather than ethnicity, it was the social class that defined the division of space.
    In this way, my papers calls for a new understanding of the spatial configuration and transformation of urban Manchuria within a broader geopolitical context during the turbulent early twentieth century.

  • Fragmented Monuments, Museums and Memories: Urban Spaces in Colonial Manchuria Invited International conference

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    Monuments, Museums, and Memory: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Kyushu University Collaborative Workshop, UIUC, US  2022.11 

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    Event date: 2022.11

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:United States  

  • Localizing Globalization and Urbanization: Artist Yin Xiuzhen’s Installation Work ‘Made in Shenzhen’. International conference

    2022.8 

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    Event date: 2022.8

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:ONLINE   Country:Taiwan, Province of China  

  • 桑原甲子雄の満洲写真について Invited International conference

    2021 東アジア日本研究者協議会 第5回国際学術大会  2021.11 

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    Event date: 2021.11

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

    Venue:ONLINE   Country:Korea, Republic of  

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MISC

  • Book Review: Alice Y. Tseng. Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018 Reviewed

    2020.3

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  • 解説「屏風の起承転結(中国語)」 (『湖上』12巻、171〜178頁、西泠印社出版社、2019年) Reviewed

    西泠印社出版社   2019.8

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  • 『マンチュリア』に行こう!

    第71回SGRAフォーラム 「20世紀前半、北東アジアに現れた『緑のウクライナ』という特別な空間」レポート   2023.10

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    Language:Japanese   Publishing type:Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal)  

Professional Memberships

  • Society of Urban and Territorial History

  • Japanese Association of Modern East Asian History

  • CAA

  • AAS

  • Architectural Institute of Japan

Academic Activities

  • Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University

    2022.4 - 2023.3

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  • Organizer International contribution

    Transcultural Exchanges: Mapping Movement of Art, Ideas, and People in Asia  ( ONLINE Japan ) 2022.2

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    Type:Competition, symposium, etc. 

    Number of participants:70

  • Organizer International contribution

    Online Lecture by Magdalena Kolodziej (Toyo Eiwa University) "Constructing the Modern: Japanese Salon Art on Display in Colonial Seoul and Taipei (1922-1945)"  ( ONLINE Japan ) 2022.1

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    Type:Competition, symposium, etc. 

    Number of participants:25

  • 主催 International contribution

    九州大学QR若手研究者国際シンポジウム「Crossing Borders: Material and Memory in the Trans-Asian Context」  ( 九州大学 ) 2021.3

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    Type:Competition, symposium, etc. 

    Number of participants:43

  • 主催 International contribution

    九州大学QR若手研究会講演2:よみがえる奈良の技ー聖林寺十一面観音の模刻研究(英語逐次通訳付き)  2021.3

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    Type:Competition, symposium, etc. 

    Number of participants:33

  • 主催 International contribution

    九州大学QR若手研究会講演1:Defining Refugees: Tatar Muslims in Prewar Japan  2021.3

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    Number of participants:25

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Research Projects

  • "Shared Coasts, Divided Historiographies: Mobilizing People, Ideas, and Artifacts in the East Asian Mediterranean"

    2023.6 - 2025.6

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  • 20世紀前半の満洲都市の商業・生活空間の形成と変遷−日・中・露の連携と競争を中心に−

    2019.4 - 2020.3

    日本 

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    Authorship:Principal investigator 

  • りそなアジアオセアニア財団研究助成金:20世紀前半の満洲都市の商業・生活空間の形成と変遷−日・中・露の連携と競争を中心に−

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    Grant type:Donation

  • 国際若手研究者交流会: Crossing Borders: Material and Memory in the Trans-Asian Context

    2019

    2019年度QRプログラム【特定プロジェクト支援】 「若手研究者アイデア創出交流支援」

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  • 20世紀前半の満洲都市の商業・生活空間の形成と変遷−日・中・露の連携と競争を中心に−

    2019

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Educational Activities

  • 2018 Spring: Academic English Writing Seminar: Abstract Workshop
    2019 Fall: Graduate Seminar Japanese Architecture; Introduction to Modern Japanese Society (JICA/co-teaching)
    2020 Spring: Special Issues in Modern Japanese Society (JICA/co-teaching)
    2020 Fall: Thesis Guidance Seminar (IMAP/co-teaching); Topics in Japanese Art and Architecture: Reading Workshop on Modern Japanese Spaces (IMAP); Introduction to Modern Japanese Society (JICA/co-teaching)
    2021 Spring: Special Issues in Modern Japanese Society (JICA/co-teaching); Research Resources and Methods (RRM) (IMAP/co-teaching)
    2021 Fall: Topics in Art and Architecture; Research Resources and Methods (RRM) (IMAP/co-teaching)
    2022 Spring: Meiji Culture & Space; Academic Writing and Reading; Research Resources and Methods (RRM) (IMAP/co-teaching); Special Issues in Modern Japanese Society (JICA/co-teaching)

Class subject

  • アカデミックプレゼンテーションⅠB

    2023.6 - 2023.8   Summer quarter

  • アカデミックプレゼンテーションⅠB

    2023.6 - 2023.8   Summer quarter

  • Japanese Humanities Research in Situ

    2023.4 - 2023.9   First semester

  • Research and Professional Development

    2023.4 - 2023.9   First semester

  • Topics in Japanese Art and Architectural History Ⅷ

    2023.4 - 2023.9   First semester

  • Japanese Humanities Research in Situ

    2023.4 - 2023.9   First semester

  • Research and Professional Development

    2023.4 - 2023.9   First semester

  • Topics in Japanese Art and Architectural History Ⅷ

    2023.4 - 2023.9   First semester

  • アカデミックプレゼンテーションⅠA

    2023.4 - 2023.6   Spring quarter

  • アカデミックプレゼンテーションⅠA

    2023.4 - 2023.6   Spring quarter

  • 日本学

    2022.10 - 2023.3   Second semester

  • Topics in Japanese Art and Architectural History Ⅵ

    2022.10 - 2023.3   Second semester

  • Topics in Japanese Art and Architectural History Ⅶ

    2022.10 - 2023.3   Second semester

  • 日本学(Introduction to Japanese Studies)

    2022.10 - 2023.3   Second semester

  • Upper-level Graduate Seminar: History II

    2022.10 - 2023.3   Second semester

  • 日本学

    2022.10 - 2023.3   Second semester

  • Topics in Japanese Art and Architectural History Ⅵ

    2022.10 - 2023.3   Second semester

  • Topics in Japanese Art and Architectural History Ⅶ

    2022.10 - 2023.3   Second semester

  • 日本学(Introduction to Japanese Studies)

    2022.10 - 2023.3   Second semester

  • Upper-level Graduate Seminar: History II

    2022.10 - 2023.3   Second semester

  • 日本学(Introduction to Japanese Studies)

    2022.10 - 2023.3   Second semester

  • Introduction to Modern Japanese Society

    2022.4 - 2022.9   First semester

  • Introduction to Modern Japanese Society

    2022.4 - 2022.9   First semester

  • Topics in Japanese Art and Architectural History Ⅷ

    2022.4 - 2022.9   First semester

  • Topics in Japanese Art and Architectural History Ⅴ

    2022.4 - 2022.9   First semester

  • Topics in Japanese Art and Architectural History Ⅶ

    2021.10 - 2022.3   Second semester

  • 日本学(Introduction to Japanese Studies)

    2021.10 - 2022.3   Second semester

  • Topics in Japanese Art and Architectural History Ⅵ

    2021.10 - 2022.3   Second semester

  • Upper-level Graduate Seminar:Visual Culture and Art HistoryI

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Introduction to Modern Japanese Society

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Top. in Jap. Art&Arch. His. Ⅴ(臨時開講)

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Upper-level Graduate Seminar:Visual Culture and Art HistoryⅡ

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Introduction to Modern Japanese Society

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Research, Readings, and Methods

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Master Thesis Guidance

    2020.10 - 2021.3   Second semester

  • Topics in Japanese Art and Architectural History V

    2020.10 - 2021.3   Second semester

  • Topics in Japanese Art and Architectural History V

    2020.10 - 2021.3   Second semester

  • Introduction to Modern Japanese Society

    2020.4 - 2020.9   First semester

  • Introduction to Japanese Studies

    2019.10 - 2020.3   Second semester

  • Architecture, Urbanism, and Power in Japan

    2019.10 - 2020.3   Second semester

  • アカデミック英語ゼミ:要旨ワークショップ

    2018.10 - 2019.3   Second semester

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Visiting, concurrent, or part-time lecturers at other universities, institutions, etc.

  • 2021  福岡女子大学WJCプログラム  Classification:Part-time lecturer  Domestic/International Classification:Japan 

    Semester, Day Time or Duration:春学期 木曜 5限

  • 2020  福岡女子大学  Classification:Part-time lecturer  Domestic/International Classification:Japan 

    Semester, Day Time or Duration:前期 木曜 4限

  • 2019  福岡女子大学  Classification:Part-time lecturer  Domestic/International Classification:Japan 

    Semester, Day Time or Duration:通年 火曜

  • 2018  福岡女子大学  Classification:Part-time lecturer  Domestic/International Classification:Japan 

    Semester, Day Time or Duration:通年 木曜

Social Activities

  • 公開講演: 「GO TO マンチュリア」:旧満洲の都市空間と視覚表象

    神奈川まちづかい塾  2021.1

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    Type:Lecture

    二十世紀前半、大勢の日本人が旧満洲(現在中国東北地方)に訪ね、観光電車とバスに乗り、大連・奉天・新京・哈爾浜など定番の観光ルートを巡り、記念写真を撮り、土産を購入しました。このような「GO TO満洲」の旅は、現在日本の大衆観光の嚆矢であると言われています。本発表は、植民地観光の視点から、旧満洲の都市空間と建築を取り上げます。先行研究と新たな視座を紹介し、旧満洲の地域社会における多層かつ流動的な都市空間とその視覚表象とのアンバランスを明らかにします。

Media Coverage

  • Funding frustrations: Discipline and academic culture Newspaper, magazine

    QS Insight Magazines  2024.5

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Travel Abroad

  • 2023.2 - 2023.3

    Staying countory name 1:United Kingdom   Staying institution name 1:University of Glasgow

    Staying institution name 2:University of Norwich

    Staying institution name 3:Sainsbury institute of Japanese studies

    Staying institution name (Other):Japanese Consulate in Edinburgh

  • 2022.11 - 2022.12

    Staying countory name 1:United States   Staying institution name 1:University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Kyushu University

  • 2019.9

    Staying countory name 1:Italy   Staying institution name 1:Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz-Max-Planck-Institut