{"id":13249,"date":"2021-01-11T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/?p=13249"},"modified":"2021-04-26T10:26:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T14:26:34","slug":"re-producing-colonial-modernity-official-photo-album-of-the-1935-taiwan-colonial-exposition-april-21-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/2021\/01\/11\/re-producing-colonial-modernity-official-photo-album-of-the-1935-taiwan-colonial-exposition-april-21-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-producing Colonial Modernity: Official Photo Album of the 1935 Taiwan Colonial Exposition (April 21, 2021 Taiwan Forum)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston University Center for the Study of Asia<\/span><\/strong> is pleased to present its next lecture in the
Taiwan Forum<\/span><\/strong> Public Lecture Series<\/p>\n

Re-producing Colonial Modernity: Official Photo Album<\/em>
of the 1935 Taiwan Colonial Exposition<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Meng-Hsuan Lee<\/h3>\n

(Department of History of Art and Archaeology, Columbia University)<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from 6:30-7:30 pm ET<\/h2>\n
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The \u201cThe Taiwan Exposition: In Commemoration of the First Forty Years of Colonial Rule\u201d (\u59cb\u653f\u56db\u5341\u5e74\u8a18\u5ff5\u53f0\u7063\u535a\u89bd\u6703),<\/strong> commonly referred to as the \u201c1935 Taiwan Exposition,\u201d was the largest of its kind during the Japanese colonial era. Both recent academic and popular literature have made it a pivotal moment in Taiwanese history, with a renewed interest in Japanese colonization. Previous research has covered various subjects, such as colonial representations of progress vs. exoticism, systematic introduction of modernist architecture, and how colonial subjects were educated and disciplined through the exposition. However, the photographs from the official Photo Album<\/em>, produced alongside the exposition, have largely been treated only as historical documents. Its photographic nature and the fact that it was intended as a photobook, have largely gone unnoticed.<\/p>\n

This paper argues that the\u00a0Photo Album<\/em>\u00a0assumes the role of a colonial museum photographed and reproduced on paper.\u00a0I use the concept of the museum as a \u201cmodern machine\u201d that not only reflected modernity, but also actively reproduced modernity through a \u201cmodern visual regime.\u201d\u00a0The photographic museum on paper documented the modern and eclectic architecture of the exposition while further \u201cconstructing\u201d the architectural program of the exposition. The\u00a0Photo Album<\/em>\u00a0helped to reinforce the idea of progress achieved by colonial enterprise and projected a future of the colony of Taiwan as an agriculturo-industrial base for the empire\u2019s southward expansion.<\/p>\n

About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Meng-Hsuan Lee \u674e\u5b5f\u7444<\/strong> is a third-year Ph.D. student in Columbia University\u2019s Art History and Archaeology program. He studies modern architecture, with a focus on Japanese colonial architecture and urbanism in Taiwan. His current project uses the uses of framework of architectural screenology to investigate the rise of fa\u00e7adism in 1920s and 30s Taiwanese cities. More broadly, he is interested in the intersection of media and architecture, global colonialisms, and architectural preservation.<\/p>\n

Prior to joining Columbia in 2018, Meng received his M.A. in Humanities (art history) from the University of Chicago, where he worked as a research assistant in Japanese art and wrote his master\u2019s thesis examining the politics of urban memory surrounding Shih-Shih South Village \u56db\u56db\u5357\u6751, an architectural preservation project in Taipei. Previously, he received his B.A. in Drama and Theatre from National Taiwan University.<\/p>\n

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Support for the BUCSA Taiwan Forum series is provided by the
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office Boston Education Division,
and the Taiwan Ministry of Education<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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