Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan 9780824864101

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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Part 1. Images of Taiwan and the Discovery of the Taiwanese Landscape
1. Colonial Encounters
2. The Beauty of the Untamed
3. Japanese Landscape Painting and Taiwan
4. The Demise of Oriental-style Painting in Taiwan
Part 2. Images by and about Women
5. The Changing Representation of Women in Modern Japanese Paintings
6. Modernity, Power, and Gender
Part 3. Construction of Taiwan’s Vernacular Landscape
7. Taiwaneseness in Japanese Period Architecture in Taiwan
8. Taiwanese Aboriginal Art and Artifacts
9. Refracted Colonial Modernity
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

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