Visualizing Asia in the Modern World: A Conference on Image-Driven Scholarship
May 11-12, 2012 at Princeton University
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Friday, May 11
8:30 Coffee/Tea
9:00 Welcoming Remarks
9:15-10:45 Panel: Imaging 19th century China and Japan
Chair-Andrew Watsky, Art and Archeology, Princeton
Raymond Pun, Envisioning Asian Social History through NYPL’s Digital Gallery
Pedith Chan, Landscape and Tourism: Visualizing Scenic China in the Early Twentieth Century
Guo Wu, An Anonymous French Missionary’s Photos of Late Qing Guizhou
10:45-11:15 Break
11:15-12:45 Panel: Commodities on the Move
Chair-Susan Naquin, History, Princeton
Man Man Huang, Chinese Export Silk for the American Market in the 19th Century and the Female Influence
Rosalien Van der Poel, Commodities in a Visual Economy
Jessica Patterson, Through a Glass Darkly: The Sanctification of China Trade Paintings in Siam
12:45-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 Panel: Visualizing Technology
Chair-Benjamin Elman, East Asian Studies, Princeton
Monica Guu, Electric Shocks and Thunder Strikes: Visualizing Electrical Phenomena in Late-Qing Shanghai
Jadwiga Kamola, Documenting diseases in nineteenth century China: Lam Qua\'s portraits of tumour patients
Benjamin Uchiyama, Visualizing Aviation in Wartime Japan
4:00-4:15 Break
4:15-5:15 Panel: Graphic Transformations in Republican China
Chair-Cary Liu, Curator, Asian Art, Princeton University Art Museum
Ren Wei, The Graphic Transformation of the Modern Book in Republican China
Paul Ricketts, Shanghai’s Liangyou Pictorial: A Case Study of the Transcultural Migration of Montage Aesthetics
Saturday, May 12
8:30 Coffee/Tea
9:00-10:30 Panel: Photography: Imperialism, Democracy, and Humanitarianism
Chair-Michael Laffan, History, Princeton
Yun-wen Sung, Silent Coercion: Sumatra’s East Coast through a Colonial Lens
Kerry Ross, Democratizing the Fine Arts: Camera Clubs and Club Photography in Early 20th-century Japan
Caroline Reeves and Raymond Lum, Developing the Humanitarian Image in late 19th- and early 20th-century China
10:30-10:45. Break
10:45-12:15. Panel: Transnational Perspectives and Othering
Chair-Jerome Silbergeld, Art and Archeology, Princeton
Monika Lehner, Graphic Representations of Things Chinese: Austro-Hungarian Political Cartoons, 1894/5-1917
Ayelet Zohar, Images of Otherness in Japan: Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians in 20th C. Japanese Visual Culture
Alice Xiang, Reclaiming the art of documentary in 'Chung Kuo': Michelangelo Antonioni's 1972 China film
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Panel: Protest and Urban Modernity in Early 20th century China, Korea, and India
Chair-Federico Marcon, East Asian Studies, Princeton
Steffen Rimner, The Opium Threat: Indian Origins, Chinese Radicalization and Asian Victimhood
Ha Yoon Jung, Searching for the ‘Modern Wife’ in Prewar Shanghai and Seoul Pictorials
2:30-2:45. Break
2:45-4:15 Panel: Visualizing Change in Maoist and Post-Maoist China
Chair-Janet Chen, History, Princeton
Xin Huang, Changing Representations of Femininity in P.R.China in Personal Photo Albums
Non Arkaraprasertkul, Visualizing Romance of Shanghai Neighborhood: The precursory experience and how do we know what we thought we knew?
Vivian Li, Art After the Revolution: Rent Collection Courtyard
4:15-5:00 Wrap-up Discussion