Lecturer: Konrad M. Lawson Email: kml8@st-andrews.ac.uk
Meets: Fall and Spring 2023-2024 Wed 10:00-13:00 St Katharine’s Lodge B3
Office Hours: Thu 10-11 on Teams (please sign up for a time )

Description

This module explores the spatial histories of nineteenth- and twentieth-century East and South East Asia from the scale of the urban to the domestic. Students will study the history of Asian cities in colonial, semi-colonial, and early post-colonial contexts. Using travel accounts, newspapers, colonial records, police archives, literature, maps, and other images, students will use primary sources to analyse historical change in the spaces of everyday life such as the home, parks, transportation networks, department stores, and teahouses.

Overview

Week 1 - Introduction: Spaces of History
Week 2 - Treaty Ports and Foreign Concessions
Week 3 - Historical and Theoretical Approaches to Spatial History
Week 4 - Urban Planning
Week 5 - Utopian Spaces
Week 7 - Tropicality
Week 8 - Health, Hygiene and Sanitation
Week 9 - The Home and Domestic Space
Week 10 - Housing
Week 11 - Neighbourhoods and the Suburb

Semester Two:

Week 1 - Space and Mobility
Week 2 - The Gaze of the Tourist
Week 3 - Parks and Gardens
Week 4 - Museums and Exhibitions
Week 5 - Social Spaces
Week 6 - Spaces of Consumption
Week 7 - Messy Urbanism
Week 8 - Urban Space, Order, and Politics
Week 9 - Migration and Ethnic Space
Week 10 - Geomancy
Week 11 - Sacred Space

Assessment Summary

100% Coursework

Prospectus (Formative) - 23 Oct 23:59 (on Teams)
Blog Entries Fall (10%) - 24 Nov 23:59
Presentation Fall (15%)
Long Essay Fall (25%) - 13 Dec 23:15
Blog Entries Spring (10%) 4 Apr 23:59
Presentation Spring (15%)
Long Essay Spring (25%) 24 Apr 23:59

Learning Outcomes

• To gain the ability to analyse a variety of primary sources that each pose particular challenges and serious limitations in accessing a broad range of perspectives in the histories of East and Southeast Asian cities and spaces.
• To develop the ability to balance the need for deep empirical research that appreciates rich local contexts while answering historical problems that explore comparative, transnational, and global connections.
• To apply interdisciplinary approaches to spatial history from the scale of the city to the home.

Jump to:

Fall Semester: W1 | W2 | W3 | W4 | W5 | W6 | W7 | W8 | W9 | W10 | W11

Spring Semester: W1 | W2 | W3 | W4 | W5 | W6 | W7 | W8 | W9 | W10 | W11

Fall Semester

Week 1 - Introduction: Spaces of History

This first orientation session will offer you an overview of the module and its assessments. We will then have a discussion about what spatial history is, and hear a bit from each student about their main interests and goals for the year.

Overview:

1. I’m going to go over the structure of the module and assessments
2. We will have a discussion about spatial history and what it is.
3. We will discuss a few concrete examples of spatial history
4. We will discuss your ideas of spaces that we may turn the attention of our historical analysis to
5. We will look at some previous student work in this module and discuss the central importance of finding primary sources to work with

Please read:

Riccardo Bavaj, Konrad Lawson, and Bernhard Struck Doing Spatial History (2022), Introduction. Ebook

Konrad Lawson, Riccardo Bavaj and Bernhard Struck A Guide to Spatial History: Areas, Aspects, and Avenues of Research (2021), City and Home - After reading this short section, have a look through the footnotes to get a feel of the range of scholarship out there.

Here are a few concrete example works to discuss at our first meeting. Consider reading at least one of them. They will come up again later in the year.

Shuishan Yu, “Redefining the Axis of Beijing Revolution and Nostalgia in the Planning of the PRC Capital,” Journal of Urban History 34, no. 4 (May 1, 2008): 571–608. Sage

Jeremy E. Taylor, “The Bund: Littoral Space of Empire in the Treaty Ports of East Asia,” Social History 27, no. 2 (May 1, 2002): 125–42. Jstor

Jordan Sand, Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects (University of California Press, 2013), Ch 1 “Hiroba: The Public Square and the Boundaries of the Commons” Ebook

Optional Background Reading on East and Southeast Asia

If you have never taken a module on East or Southeast Asian History before, then these books offer helpful broad surveys. We will be focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries:

M. C. Ricklefs et al. A New History of Southeast Asia. Palgrave, 2010.

Hwang, Kyung Moon. A History of Korea. 2nd ed. 2017 edition. Palgrave, 2016.

Gordon, Andrew. A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present. Various editions.

Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China, Various editions.

Heavy Use Books for the Year

The following are some examples of books that we will read significant pieces of during the year. If you have any time over the summer, you can get ahead by reading them.

Jordan Sand, House and Home in Modern Japan: Reforming Everyday Life 1880-1930 (Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2005). Ebook

Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment (NUS Press, 2003). Ebook

Christian Tagsold, Spaces in Translation: Japanese Gardens and the West (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017). Ebook

Todd A. Henry, Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 (Univ of California Press, 2014). Ebook

Su Lin Lewis, Cities in Motion: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920–1940, Asian Connections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016). Ebook

Joseph R. Allen, Taipei: City of Displacements (University of Washington Press, 2012).

Di Wang, The Teahouse: Small Business, Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in Chengdu, 1900-1950 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008). Ebook

Manish Chalana, ed., Messy Urbanism: Understanding the ‘Other’ Cities of Asia (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017). Ebook

Robert K. Home, Of Planting and Planning: The Making of British Colonial Cities (Taylor & Francis, 1996). Ebook

Hanchao Lu, Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century (University of California Press, 2004). Ebook

Elizabeth LaCouture, Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860–1960 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021). Ebook

Lawrence Chua, Ronald G. Knapp, and Xing Ruan, Bangkok Utopia: Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, 1910–1973 (University of Hawaii Press, 2021). Ebook

Lizzy van Leeuwen Lost in the Mall: An Ethnography of Middle-Class Jakarata in the 1990s Ebook

Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano, Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan (Stanford University Press, 2013). Ebook

Week 2: Treaty Ports, Leased Territories, and Foreign Concessions

Today we will explore the unique spaces that are treaty ports, leased territories, and foreign concessions, which will play an important role in shaping life and interactions in the period this module focuses on. The readings will focus most heavily on China, most of all Shanghai, but they were important in Japan and Korea as well.

Task

1. Using the Rumsey Map collection:

http://www.davidrumsey.com/

Find a map of a city in East or Southeast Asia from 1850-1950 that you find interesting. Paste a link to the map in reply to a thread that I will create in the Microsoft Team along with the title of the map. Print it out or bring it, open on your laptop/tablet for us to look at and be prepared to discuss what you think we can learn about the city from it as well as any critical observations you might make about the representation offered by the map itself. You can create a printable version with the “Export” button visible when viewing a map in the website’s viewer.

Required Reading

Reading Required for Everyone:

Bickers, Robert, and Isabella Jackson, eds. Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law, Land, and Power. Routledge, 2015. Ebook Ch 1 “Extraterritoriality in China: What We Know and What we Don’t Know” by Pär Cassel, pp23-36

Jeremy E. Taylor, “The Bund: Littoral Space of Empire in the Treaty Ports of East Asia,” Social History 27, no. 2 (May 1, 2002): 125–42. Jstor (This was one of the sample options in Week 1)

Christian Henriot, “The Shanghai Bund in Myth and History: An Essay through Textual and Visual Sources,” Journal of Modern Chinese History 4, no. 1 (2010): 1–27 Online

Elective Reading - You are Required to Read the texts from one of the categories below:

1. Bangkok

King, Ross. Reading Bangkok. University of Hawaii Press, 2011. Ch 1 “Landscapes of Illusion and the First Level of Colonisation…” p1-42 Jstor

Trais Pearson, Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-Colonial Siam, Ebook (Cornell University Press, 2020). Ch 3 Treaty Port Tort pp62-86, Ch 5 Morbid Subjects pp110-129

2. (More) Shanghai

Shanghai’s Lens on the New: I, II, III

Robert Bickers, “Shanghailanders: The Formation and Identity of the British Settler Community in Shanghai 1843-1937,” Past & Present, no. 159 (May 1, 1998): 161–211 Jstor

Eileen P. Scully, “Prostitution as Privilege: The ‘American Girl’ of Treaty-Port Shanghai, 1860-1937,” The International History Review 20, no. 4 (December 1, 1998): 855–83. Jstor

3. Tianjin

LaCouture, Elizabeth. Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860–1960. Columbia University Press, 2021. Ebook Ch 1 “Unraveling the Chinese Empire” pp17-46, Ch 3 “Power, Power, and Identity in a Colonial-Capitalist City” pp80-119

Marinelli, Maurizio. ‘Making Concessions in Tianjin: Heterotopia and Italian Colonialism in Mainland China’. Urban History 36, no. 03 (2009): 399–425. DOI.

4. Yokohama and Legal Edges

Yokohama Boomtown: Foreigners in Treaty-Port Japan

Ambaras, David R. Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2018. Ch 1 “Treaty Ports and Traffickers: Children’s Bodies, Regional Markets, and the Making of National Space” pp29-72. Ebook

Botsman, Daneil V. ‘Freedom without Slavery? “Coolies,” Prostitutes, and Outcastes in Meiji Japan’s “Emancipation Moment”’. The American Historical Review 116, no. 5 (2011): 1323–47. Ebook

5. Pusan

Sungwoo Kang, ‘Colonizing the Port City Pusan in Korea: A Study of the Process of Japanese Domination in the Urban Space of Pusan During the Open-Port Period (1876-1910)’ (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oxford, 2012), Ch 2 Transformation of the Japan House (Waegwan) to a Japanese Settlement and other Foreign Settlements in Pusan, pp32-84. PDF

Noble, Harold J. “The Former Foreign Settlements in Korea.” The American Journal of International Law 23, no. 4 (October 1, 1929): 766–82. DOI

6. Hankou

Bickers, Robert, and Isabella Jackson, eds. Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law, Land, and Power. Routledge, 2015. Ebook Ch 11 “The French Concession in Hankou 1938-43: The Life and Death of a Solitary Enclave in an Occupied City” pp220-239.

Crawford, Alan. ‘Imagining the Russian Concession in Hankou’. The Historical Journal 61, no. 4 (December 2018): 969–89. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X17000528.

Dean, Britten. ‘Sino-British Diplomacy in The 1860s: The Establishment of The British Concession at Hankow’. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 32 (1972): 71–96. https://doi.org/10.2307/2718868.

7. Special Trading Ports and the “Outports”

Brunero, Donna, Stephanie Villalta Puig eds. Life in Treaty Port China and Japan. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Ch 4 “Beyond the Bund: Life in the Outports” pp73-104.

Catherine L. Phipps, Empires on the Waterfront: Japan’s Ports and Power, 1858–1899 (BRILL, 2020). Introduction pp1-16, Ch 1 Special Trading Ports pp19-59

Further Reading

Nield, Robert China’s Foreign Places : the Foreign Presence in China in the Treaty Port Era, 1840-1943

“Origin and Development of the Political System in the Shanghai International Settlement,” jstor

Bremner, G. Alex, and David P. Y. Lung. “Spaces of Exclusion: The Significance of Cultural Identity in the Formation of European Residential Districts in British Hong Kong, 1877 - 1904.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 21, no. 2 (2003): 223–52. doi:10.1068/d310.

Bickers, Robert A., Empire Made Me an Englishman Adrift in Shanghai 2003. (P)

Brunero, Donna, Stephanie Villalta Puig, eds. Life in Treaty Port China and Japan Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Djumena, Sascha T. China’s Treaty Ports: Lessons for Today’s Special Economic Zones. Techn. Univ., 1995.

Fairbank, John King. Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast;: The Opening of the Treaty Ports 1842-1854. Stanford University Press, 1969.

Hamashita Takeshi “Tribute and Treaties: East Asian Treaty Ports Networks in the Era of Negotiation, 1834—1894.” European Journal of East Asian Studies 1, no. 1 (January 1, 2001): 59–87.

Hao, Yen-P’ing. The Comprador in Nineteenth Century China: Bridge Between East and West. Harvard University Press, 2013. (P)

Hoare, James. Japan’s Treaty Ports and Foreign Settlements: The Uninvited Guests, 1858-1899. Japan Library, 1994. (P)

Hoare, James Edward. The Japanese Treaty Ports 1868-1899: A Study of the Foreign Settlements. University of London, 1970.

Munson, Todd S. The Periodical Press in Treaty-Port Japan: Conflicting Reports From Yokohama, 1861-1870. Brill, 2012. (P)

Nield, Robert. The China Coast: Trade and the First Treaty Ports.

Tai, En-Sai. Treaty Ports in China (a Study in Diplomacy). New York city [University printing office, Columbia university], 1918. http://archive.org/details/treatyportsinch01taigoog.

Wood, Frances. No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China, 1843-1943. John Murray, 2000.

Week 3 - Historical and Theoretical Approaches to Space

This week will introduce you to the approaches to space and place of several influential spatial theorists.

Task

1. This week is a challenging one. Be ready to answer questions about what certain difficult keywords mean, and what certain challenging sentences may have meant. As you read these theoretical texts, you may not find all of it useful or without contradiction but read with a sympathetic approach, asking yourself what might be helpful take aways from this that may come to help guide you as you read about cities in more concrete scholarship.
2. We are focusing on the theoretical perspectives of three individuals in particular: Henri Lefebvre, Doreen Massey, and Michel de Certeau. Be able to say something about the relationship between these thinkers with regards to their understand of space. What do they have in common, and where do they diverge?

Required Readings

Lefebvre, Henri The Production of Space, “Plan of the Present Work” only pp. 1-53 (sections I-XVIII, put particular focus on your reading and notes from XII to XVIII).

NOTE: Read this closely and carefully and take notes at the section level: you will be asked to discuss this section by section. For each roman lettered section, try to sum up what you think the main point or goal is along with key thinkers/examples mentioned.

Elden, Stuart. Understanding Henri Lefebvre: Theory and the Possible. London ; New York: Continnuum-3PL, 2004. Ch 5 “Space and History” (Teams)

NOTE: If you find the early sections on “moments” and time difficult, you can focus your reading of this chapter on pp181-198.

Merrifield, Andy Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Introduction (Taylor & Francis, 2006), “Space” 99-120. (P)

de Certeau, Michel The Practice of Everyday Life (University of California Press, 2011) sections “Walking the City” and “Spatial Stories” (P)

NOTE: Again, this is a challenging reading. In what ways is de Certeau compatible and incompatible with Lefebvre’s approach? Some key concepts to focus your notes on: walkers and voyeurs; operations (ways of operating); pedestrian speech acts; place vs space; maps, tours, stories.

Massey, Doreen Space, Place, and Gender “General Introduction” pp1-13. Ebook

Massey, For Space. 2005. Read Introduction and Ch 1 pp1-14. Ebook

NOTE: Some key areas to focus your notes on: plurality of trajectories; a simultaneity of stories-so-far; ordinary space vs social space

Elective Readings:

1. Massey, Doreen For Space. 2005. Read Ch 2-3. (P) Ebook

NOTE: Another challenging reading. Please try to understand her critique of de Certeau, in particular.

2. Massey, Doreen Space, Place and Gender Part II Introduction, Ch 6 “A Global Sense of Place” Ch 11 “Politics and Space/Time” Ebook

3. Elden, Stuart. Understanding Henri Lefebvre: Theory and the Possible. 2004. Introduction, Ch 3-5.

4. Buchanan, Ian Michel de Certeau: Cultural Theorist Introduction, Ch 1-2, 5

5. Stanek, Łukasz. Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory Ch 2 [Ebook] Further Reading Ebook

More on Lefebvre:

Elden, Stuart. ‘Politics, Philosophy, Geography: Henri Lefebvre in Recent Anglo-American Scholarship’. Antipode 33, no. 5 (1 November 2001): 809–25. DOI

Molotch, Harvey. ‘The Space of Lefebvre’. Edited by Henri Lefebvre and Donald Nicholson-Smith. Theory and Society 22, no. 6 (1993): 887–95.

Schmid, Christian. ‘The Trouble with Henri: Urban Research and the Theory of the Production of Space’. In Urban Revolution Now: Henri Lefebvre in Social Research and Architecture. Routledge, 2014.

Mierrifield, Andy. ‘Henri Lefebvre. A Socialist in Space’. In Thinking Space

Stanek, ukasz. Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory. Minneapolis, MN: University Of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Schmid, Christian. Henri Lefebvre and the Theory of the Production of Space. London New York: Verso, 2022.

Goonewardena, Kanishka, Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom, and Christian Schmid, eds. Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre. 1 edition. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Elden, Stuart. Understanding Henri Lefebvre: Theory and the Possible. London ; New York: Continnuum-3PL, 2004.

Lefebvre, Henri. Critique of Everyday Life: The One-Volume Edition. Translation edition. London: Verso Books, 2014.

———. Henri Lefebvre: Key Writings. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2003.

———. Everyday Life in the Modern World. London Oxford New York New Delhi Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Schmid, Christian. Henri Lefebvre and the Theory of the Production of Space. London New York: Verso, 2022.

———. Writings On Cities. Translated by Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas. Cambridge, Mass, USA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Bauer, Jenny, and Robert Fischer, eds. Perspectives on Henri Lefebvre: Theory, Practices and (Re)Readings. Electronic book. SpatioTemporality / RaumZeitlichkeit 4. De Gruyter: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018.

Biagi, Francesco. Henri Lefebvre’s Critical Theory of Space. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Ebook

Butler, Chris. Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City. Nomikoi : Critical Legal Thinkers. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: New York : Routledge, 2012.

Elden, Stuart. Understanding Henri Lefebvre: Theory and the Possible. London ; New York: Continnuum-3PL, 2004.

Leary-Owhin, Michael Edema, and Taylor and Francis, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, the City and Urban Society. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2020.

Muschamp, Herbert, and Andrew Merrifield. Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Introduction. New Ed edition. New York: Routledge, 2006.

David Harvey “Space as a Keyword” and Sharon Zukin “David Harvey on Cities” in Noel Castree and Derek Gregory, David Harvey: A Critical Reader (Wiley, 2006), 102-120, 270-293.

Other Theoretical Approaches:

Featherstone, David, and Joe Painter. Spatial Politics: Essays For Doreen Massey. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

Se-Yong Jang, ‘The Spatial Theory of de Certeau, a Vagabond in Stray Space’, Localities 5 (2015): 89–102

Amin, Ash and Nigel Thrift Cities: Reimagining the Urban 2002. (P)

Duncan, James S., and David Ley. Place/Culture/Representation. London, Routledge, 1993. (ebook)

Wolff, Kurt H. The Sociology Of Georg Simmel. The Free Press., 1950. http://archive.org/details/sociologyofgeorg030082mbp.

Seamon, David. A Geography of the Lifeworld: Movement, Rest and Encounter. Routledge, 2015.

Crang, Mike, and Nigel Thrift, eds. Thinking Space. London ; New York: Routledge, 2000.

Tuan, Yi-fu. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977. (P)

Hubbard, Phil, and Rob Kitchin. Key Thinkers on Space and Place. 2 edition. Los Angeles, Calif.: Sage Publications Ltd, 2010.

Aitken, Stuart, and Gill Valentine. Approaches to Human Geography. 2 edition. Los Angeles: Sage Publications Ltd, 2014.

Barnes, Trevor J, and Derek Gregory. Reading Human Geography: The Poetics and Politics of Inquiry. London: Arnold, 1997.

Soja, Edward W. Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory. Second Edition edition. London; New York: Verso, 2011. (P)

Sack, Robert David. Conceptions of Space in Social Thought. London: Macmillan, 1980.

Harvey, David. Social Justice and the City. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. (P)

Ingold, Tim. The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill. London: Routledge, 2000.

Sennett, Richard. The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.

Sennett, Richard. Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization. W. W. Norton, 1996.

Thrift, Nigel. Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect. Routledge, 2008.

Cresswell, Tim. Place: A Short Introduction. 1 edition. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004.

———. In Place/out of Place: Geography, Ideology, and Transgression. U of Minnesota Press, 1996.

———. Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place. University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Dodgshon, Robert A. Society in Time and Space: A Geographical Perspective on Change. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Relph, Edward. Place and Placelessness. London: Pion, 1976.

Week 4 - Urban Planning

This week we will explore two of the major urban planning movements and then consider the ways in which urban planning adapts to the colonial setting, especially in the British empire. We’ll consider some of the examples where the ambitions of urban planners come into conflict with the realities of urban life in East and Southeast Asia.

Primary Sources:

1. We are going to discuss the early plans for Singapore, including “Raffles Plan” or the “Jackson Plan”. See this resource and this map.

Also useful for reference, but reading not required: Pearson, H. F. ‘Lt. Jackson’s Plan of Singapore’. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 42, no. 1 (215) (1969): 161–65. JSTOR

2. We will also devote some class time to thinking about the range of sources that we can use to explore the urban planning in cities throughout East and Southeast Asia, especially when there are language limitations. We’ll do group work for this task.

Required Reading:

Henri Lefebvre, “Philosophy of the City and Planning Ideology” in Philosophy and the City edited by Sharon M. Meagher, pp136-138 (See Files)

Peter Hall Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design since 1880 (2014 4th ed.)
Read at least one of the following two chapters:
Ch 4 “The City in the Garden” - on the Garden City movement. (See Files) Ch 6 “The City of Monuments” - on the City Beautiful movement. (See Files)

Yeoh, Brenda Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore Ch 2 Establishing an Institution of Control over the Urban Built Environment: The Municipal Authority of Singapore, 1819-1930 Ebook

Home, Robert K. Of Planting and Planning: The Making of British Colonial Cities (1996) Ebook Ch 1 “The ‘Grand Modell’ of Colonial Settlement” pp9-37
Ch 2 “‘Planting is My Trade’: The Shapers of Colonial Urban Landscapes” pp38-63

Elective Reading:

1. Home, Robert K. Of Planting and Planning: The Making of British Colonial Cities. Taylor & Francis, 1996. Ch 6, 7 Ebook

2. Dong, Madeleine Yue, Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories (2003). Ch 1 From Imperial Capital to Republican City pp21-53; Ch 3 Tradition: The City and the Nation pp78-101 Ebook

3. Colombijn, Freek et al. Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs: The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920-1960 (2014). Ch 4 “Netherlands Indies Town Planning: An Agent of Modernization (1905-1957)” pp87-117 Open Access

4. Esherick, Joseph, ed. Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950 (2002) Ch 9 “Building a Dream: Constructing a National Capital in Nanjing, 1927-1937”; Ch 11 “The City as Nation: Creating a Wartime Capital in Chongqing” Ebook

5. Wooldridge, Chuck. City of Virtues: Nanjing in an Age of Utopian Visions (2015) Ch 4 “Zeng Guofan’s Construction of a Ritual Center, 1864-72” pp117-149 Ebook

6. Dawley, Evan Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City 1880s-1950s Ch 1 “Building and Populating a Vanguard City” pp27-77 (See Files)

7. Henry, Todd A. Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 (2014) Introduction; Ch 1 Constructing Keijō Ebook

8. Stapleton, Kristin Civilizing Chengdu: Chinese Urban Reform, 1895-1937 (2000). Ch 2 Nation Building and the City, 1895-1911 pp46-76. Ebook

Further Reading:

• Almandoz, Arturo, and Arturo Almandoz Marte. Planning Latin America’s Capital Cities, 1850-1950. Psychology Press, 2002.
• Bigon, Liora, and Yossi Katz. Garden Cities and Colonial Planning: Transnationality and Urban Ideas in Africa and Palestine. Manchester University Press, 2017.
• Blair, John, Stephen Rippon, and Christopher Smart. Planning in the Early Medieval Landscape. Liverpool University Press, 2020.
• Carmona, Michel. Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris. I. R. Dee, 2002.
• Chattopadhyay, Swati. Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny. Routledge, 2005.
• Cherry, Gordon E. Town Planning in Britain Since 1900: The Rise and Fall of the Planning Ideal. Wiley, 1996.
• Chopra, Preeti. A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2011.
• DeHaan, Heather. Stalinist City Planning: Professionals, Performance, and Power. University of Toronto Press, 2013.
• Dossal, Mariam. Imperial Designs and Indian Realities: The Planning of Bombay City, 1845-1875. Delhi; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Esherick, Joseph, ed. Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950 (2002) Ch 6 “Yang Sen in Chengdu: Urban Planning in the Interior.”
• Fyfe, Nicholas. Images of the Street: Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space. Routledge, 2006.
• Garr, Daniel J. Hispanic Urban Planning in North America. Garland Pub., 1991.
• Glover, William J. Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City. University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
• Gordon, David. Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities. 1 edition. New York; London: Routledge, 2006.
• Hardy, Dennis. From Garden Cities to New Towns: Campaigning for Town and Country Planning 1899-1946. Routledge, 2003.
• Hise, Greg. Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis. JHU Press, 1999.
• Hysler-Rubin, Noah. Patrick Geddes and Town Planning: A Critical View. Routledge, 2013.
• Jordan, David P. Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussman. Simon and Schuster, 1995.
• King, Anthony D. Colonial Urban Development: Culture, Social Power and Environment. Routledge, 1976.
• Kinsbruner, Jay. The Colonial Spanish-American City: Urban Life in the Age of Atlantic Capitalism. University of Texas Press, 2010.
• Kopp, Anatole. Town and Revolution: Soviet Architecture and City Planning, 1917-1935. Thames and Hudson, 1970.
• Kostof, Spiro, and Greg Castillo. The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History. Thames and Hudson, 1992.
• Kostof, Spiro. The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History. Thames & Hudson, 1991.
• Legg, Stephen. Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities. Chicester: Wiley, 2011.
• Le Normand, Brigitte. Designing Tito’s Capital: Urban Planning, Modernism, and Socialism. Electronic book. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
• Lynch, Kevin. The Image of the City. Publications of the Joint Center for Urban Studies. Cambridge [Mass.]: MIT Press, 1960.
• ________. Good City Form. MIT Press, 1984.
• Meagher, Sharon M. Philosophy and the City: Classic to Contemporary Writings. SUNY Press, 2008.
• Murray, Oswyn, and Simon Price, eds. The Greek City from Homer to Alexander. Clarendon Paperbacks, 1991.
• Newsome, W. Brian. French Urban Planning, 1940-1968: The Construction and Deconstruction of an Authoritarian System. Peter Lang, 2009.
• Rosenau, Helen. The Ideal City: In Its Architectural Evolution in Europe. Routledge, 2007.
• Rykwert, Joseph. The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World. Faber & Faber, 2013.
• Schorske, Carl E. Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture. Vintage Books, 1980. Ch 2 “The Ringstrasse, Its Critics, and the Birth of Urban Modernism”§
• Sennett, Richard. Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization. W. W. Norton, 1996.
• Sorensen, André. The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century. Routledge, 2005.
• Sorensen, André, and Carolin Funck. Living Cities in Japan: Citizens’ Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments. Taylor & Francis, 2007.
• Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman. Chinese Imperial City Planning. University of Hawaii Press, 1999.
• Taylor, Nigel. Urban Planning Theory Since 1945. SAGE, 1998.
• Tonkiss, Fran. Cities by Design: The Social Life of Urban Form. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
• James E. Vance. The Continuing City: Urban Morphology in Western Civilization. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
• Wheatley, Paul. The Pivot of the Four Quarters: A Preliminary Enquiry into the Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City. Edinburgh: University Press, 1971.
• Young, Louise. Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan (2013) Ebook

Week 5 - Utopian Spaces

The line between urban planning and utopian visions of society is often a thin one. This week we’ll explore some of the ways they intersect.

Primary Sources

During class we will examine in greater detail some of the maps and plans that appear in Tucker, Buck, and Sewell. We will also watch a short film from the 1930s on Manchuria. We will also discuss several other primary source pamphlets and maps from my own collection from Japanese occupied Manchuria.

Task: Examine the satellite view of Changchun today and browse over the landscape of Northeast China

Required Reading:

Tucker, David “City Planning Without Cities: Order and Chaos in Utopian Manchukuo” in Mariko Asano Tamanoi ed., Crossed Histories: Manchuria in the Age of Empire, 53-81 Ebook

Buck, David D. “Railway City and National Capital: Two Faces of the Modern in Changchun” in Railway City and National Capital: Two Faces of the Modern in Changchun Ebook

Sewell, Bill Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun, 1905-45 Ch 2 “Imperialist and Imperial Facades” Ebook

Louise Young, Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism, Twentieth-Century Japan (Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1999), “Brave New Empire: Utopian Vision and the Intelligentsia” 241-268. (P) Ebook

Elective Reading:

1. Cole Roskam, Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937 (2019), Ch 5-6. Ebook

2. Wright, Gwendolyn The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism (1991) Ch 4 “Indochina: The Folly of Grandeur” (See Files)

3. Aaron Moore, Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945 (Stanford University Press, 2013), chapter “Constructing the Continent” - but only the “Urban Technological Imaginaries: The Case of “Pan-Asian” Beijing” section from pp121-135. Ebook + Leon Antonio Rocha, ‘A Utopian Garden City: Zhang Jingsheng’s “Beautiful Beijing”’, in The Habitable City in China: Urban History in the Twentieth Century, 2017. Ebook

4. Lin, Zhongjie Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan (2010) Ch 1-2 (See Files)

5. Lawrence Chua, Ronald G. Knapp, and Xing Ruan, Bangkok Utopia: Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, 1910–1973 Ch 3, 8 Ebook

6. Joseph R. Allen Taipei: City of Displacements (University of Washington Press, 2012), Ch 1 “Mapping the City”, 17-41 (P) (See Files)

7. Oshima, Ken Tadashi. ‘Denenchōfu: Building the Garden City in Japan’. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 55, no. 2 (1996): 140–51. Jstor - keep this text in mind when we read more on Denenchōfu later in the semester.

Further Reading

• Banerjee, Sandeep. Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony. Routledge, 2019.
• Bishop, Peter. The Myth of Shangri-La: Tibet, Travel Writing, and the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape. University of California Press, 1989.
• Claeys, Gregory. The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Cooper, Davina. Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces. Duke University Press, 2014.
• Duffy, C. The Landscapes of the Sublime 1700-1830: Classic Ground. Springer, 2013.
• Eaton, Ruth. Ideal Cities: Utopianism and the (Un)Built Environment. Thames & Hudson, 2002.
• Gilbert, James. Perfect Cities: Chicago’s Utopias of 1893. University of Chicago Press, 1991.
• Gregory, R., and B. Kohlmann. Utopian Spaces of Modernism: Literature and Culture, 1885-1945. Springer, 2011.
• Hall, Peter, and Colin Ward. Sociable Cities: The Legacy of Ebenezer Howard. Wiley, 1998.
• Harvey, David. Spaces of Hope. University of California Press, 2000.
• Hysler-Rubin, Noah. Patrick Geddes and Town Planning: A Critical View. Routledge, 2013.
• Lewis, Michael J. City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning. Princeton University Press, 2016.
• Liu, Yishi. “Competing Visions of the Modern: Urban Transformation and Social Change of Changchun, 1932-1957.” Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2011. (P)
• Manuel, Frank Edward. Utopian Thought in the Western World. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979.
• Mihaylov, Valentin, and Mikhail Ilchenko. Post-Utopian Spaces: Transforming and Re-Evaluating Urban Icons of Socialist Modernism. Taylor & Francis, 2022.
• Morrison, Tessa. Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900: Reconstructing Their Architecture and Political Philosophy. Routledge, 2016.
• Pinder, David. Visions of the City: Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth Century Urbanism. Routledge, 2013.
• Pohl, Nicole. Women, Space and Utopia, 1600-1800. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006.
• Rosenau, Helen. The Ideal City: In Its Architectural Evolution in Europe. Routledge, 2007.
• Rykwert, Joseph. The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World. Faber & Faber, 2013.
• Triantafyllos, Sotirios. Topos in Utopia: A Peregrination to Early Modern Utopianism’s Space. Vernon Press, 2021.
• Wang, David Der-wei, Angela Ki Che Leung, and Zhang Yinde. Utopia and Utopianism in the Contemporary Chinese Context: Texts, Ideas, Spaces. Hong Kong University Press, 2020.
• Wilson, Matthew. Moralising Space: The Utopian Urbanism of the British Positivists, 1855-1920. Routledge, 2018.
• Wheatley, Paul. The Pivot of the Four Quarters: A Preliminary Enquiry into the Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City. Edinburgh: University Press, 1971.
• Wooldridge, Chuck. City of Virtues: Nanjing in an Age of Utopian Visions. University of Washington Press, 2015.

Week 6 - Independent Learning Week

There is no meeting in Independent Learning Week but this a very important time for you to make progress on your long essay: a time for reading, refining, or a time for a shift in direction if your initial ideas are not fruitful. Especially important is to give yourself to browse primary sources and allow for potentially useful discoveries. You can also use this time to catch up on any readings you may not have good notes for.

Week 7 - Tropicality

Required Reading:

Hippocrates v. 1 ‘Airs Waters Places’ XII-XVI pp105-117 Ebook

Vitruvius Book VI, Ch 1 “On Climate as Determining the Style of the House” pp170-174 Ebook

Anne M. Cohler et al eds. Montesquieu The Spirit of the Laws Book 17 Ch 3 ‘On the Climate of Asia’ to Ch 8 pp279-284 (See Files)

Arnold, David John. The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856 Introduction + Ch 4 From the Orient to the Tropics Ebook

Jiat-Hwee Chang A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Network, Nature and Technoscience Introduction + Conclusion Ebook

Riccardo Bavaj, Konrad Lawson, Bernhard Struck eds. Doing Spatial History Ch 13 Regional Imaginaries Ebook

Elective Reading:

• 1. Jiat-Hwee Chang A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Network, Nature and Technoscience Ch 1 Ebook
• 2. Clayton, Daniel, and Gavin Bowd. ‘Geography, Tropicality and Postcolonialism: Anglophone and Francophone Readings of the Work of Pierre Gourou’. Espace Géographique 35, no. 3 (2006): 208. DOI (See Files) + Clayton, Daniel. ‘Tropical Geography’. In International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology edited by Douglas Richardson, Noel Castree, Michael F. Goodchild, Audrey Kobayashi, Weidong Liu, and Richard A. Marston, 1–3. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017. DOI
• 3. Driver, Felix. ‘Imagining the Tropics: Views and Visions of the Tropical World’. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 25, no. 1 (2004): 1–17. DOI (See Files)
• 4. Driver, Felix, and Luciana Martins. Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire Afterward: Tropic and Tropicality Ebook
• 5. Jennings, Eric Thomas. Imperial Heights: Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina Ebook Ch 1 Escaping Death in the Tropics; Ch 3 Health, Attitude, and Climate

Further Reading:

• Alatas, Syed Hussein. The Myth of the Lazy Native: A Study of the Image of the Malays, Filipinos and Javanese from the 16th to the 20th Century and Its Function in the Ideology of Colonial Capitalism (P) (See Files) Ch 1-2 (pp35-59), Ch 7 (pp98-111)
• Anderson, Warwick. Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. Duke University Press, 2006.
• Arnold, David. Warm Climates and Western Medicine: The Emergence of Tropical Medicine, 1500-1900. Rodopi, 1996.
• Barrett, Frank A.. Disease & Geography: The History of an Idea. Atkinson College, Department of Geography, 2000.
• Bowd, Gavin, and Daniel Clayton. Impure and Worldly Geography: Pierre Gourou and Tropicality. Routledge, 2019.
• Curtin, Philip D. Death by Migration: Europe’s Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
• Delaporte, François. The History of Yellow Fever: An Essay on the Birth of Tropical Medicine. MIT Press, 1991.
• Demay, Aline. Tourism and Colonization in Indochina (1898-1939) (P) Ch 2 Indochinese Resorts, a New Reading of Space
• Driver, Felix, and Luciana Martins. Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire University of Chicago Press, 2005. (P) Ebook
• Jennings, Eric T. Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas (P)
• Kennedy, Dane Keith. The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj Berkeley; London: University of California Press, 1996. (P)
• MacKenzie, John MacDonald. Imperialism and the Natural World. Manchester University Press, 1990.
• Peard, Julyan G. Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. Duke University Press, 2000.
• Stepan, Nancy, and Nancy Leys Stepan. Picturing Tropical Nature Reaktion Books, 2001. (P)
• Zabielskis, Peter, Seng Guan Yeoh, Kat Fatland. Penang and Its Networks of Knowledge Ch 5 Tropical Picturesque

Week 8 - Health, Hygiene and Sanitation

Task:

• Read over the index of the SMPA and browse file structure - look also at the supplemental files discussing the archive.
• Read the introduction to these records here Records of the Shanghai Municipal Police 1894-1949
• SMPA Focus: Bring (or upload to teams if long) an SMPA document related to health, hygiene and sanitation and be prepared to introduce it to the class. If you don’t have your own copy of the archive, see the online collection divided in groups of rolls on the Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique

Required Reading:

• Yeoh, Brenda S. A. Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment. NUS Press, 2003. Read Ch 3 Municipal Sanitary Surveillance, Asian Resistance and the Control of the Urban Environment” and skim Ch 5 “Municipal versus Asian Utilities Systems: Urban Water Supply and Sewage Disposal” Ebook
• Todd A. Henry, Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 Ch 4 Civic Assimilation: Sanitary Life in Neighborhood Keijō Ebook
• Laura Victoir and Victor Zatsepine, eds., Harbin to Hanoi: The Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940 Ebook Ch 11 Hygienic Colonial Residences in Hanoi

Elective Readings:

• 1. Vann, Michael G. “Of Rats, Rice, and Race: The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre, an Episode in French Colonial History.” French Colonial History 4 (2003): 191–203. Muse
• 2. Liang, Qizi, Angela Ki Che Leung, and Charlotte Furth. Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century. Ebook Read Introduction, and chapters on “The Treatment of Night Soil and Waste in Modern China”, “Eating Well in China: Diet and Hygiene in Nineteenth-Century Treaty Ports”
• 3. Harald Fuess, “Informal Imperialism and the 1879 ‘Hesperia’ Incident: Containing Cholera and Challenging Extraterritoriality in Japan,” Japan Review, no. 27 (January 1, 2014): 103–40. Jstor
• 4. Sutphen, Mary P. “Not What, but Where: Bubonic Plague and the Reception of Germ Theories in Hong Kong and Calcutta, 1894–1897.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 52, no. 1 (January 1, 1997): 81–113. Jstor
• 5. Colombijn, Freek, and Joost Coté, eds. Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs: The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920-1960 Open Access Ch 3 (Post)Colonial Pipes: Urban Water Supply in Colonial and Contemporary Jakarta pp63-81

Further Reading:

• Anderson, Warwick. Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. Ebook
• Arnold, David. Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies
• Shin Dongwon, ‘Hygiene, Medicine, and Modernity in Korea, 1876–1910’, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 3, no. 1 (1 March 2009): 5–26, DOI.
• Park Yunjae, ‘Sanitizing Korea: Anti-Cholera Activities of the Police in Early Colonial Korea’, Seoul Journal of Corean Studies 23 (1 December 2010): 151–71.
• Vann, Michael G. The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Hoshino, Takanori. “Transition to Municipal Management: Cleaning Human Waste in Tokyo in the Modern Era.” Japan Review, no. 20 (January 1, 2008): 189–202.
• Ruth Rogaski, Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China Ebook (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004) (P)
• Ma, Shu-Yun. “The Making and Remaking of a Chinese Hospital in Hong Kong.” Modern Asian Studies 45, no. 5 (September 2011): 1313–36. doi:10.1017/S0026749X10000107.
• Siniawer, Eiko Maruko Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan Ebook (2018) (P)
• Bu, Liping, Darwin H. Stapleton, and Ka-Che Yip. Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia. Routledge, 2012.
• Haynes, Douglas M. Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease. Ebook University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. (P)
• Kim, Jeong-Ran. “The Borderline of ‘Empire’: Japanese Maritime Quarantine in Busan c.1876–1910.” Medical History 57, no. 02 (April 2013): 226–48. doi:10.1017/mdh.2012.104.
• Liang, Qizi, Angela Ki Che Leung, and Charlotte Furth. Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century. Duke University Press, 2010.
• Macpherson, Kerrie L. A Wilderness of Marshes: The Origins of Public Health in Shanghai, 1843-1893. Lexington Books, 1987. (P)
• Rawcliffe, Carole. Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities. 1 edition. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. (P)
• Yip, Ka-che. Disease, Colonialism, and the State: Malaria in Modern East Asian History. Hong Kong University Press, 2009. Ebook (P)
• Prasad, Srirupa. Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940: Contagions of Feeling
• Peckham, Robert Shannan, and David M Pomfret. Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia
• Allen, Michelle Elizabeth. Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London. Ohio University Press, 2008.
• Arnold, David. Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India. University of California Press, 1993.
• Barnes, David S.. Barnes. The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle Against Filth and Germs. JHU Press, 2006.
• Benidickson, Jamie. The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage. UBC Press, 2007.
• Bley, Matthias, Nikolas Jaspert, Stefan Köck, Matthias Bley, Nikolas Jaspert, and Stefan Köck, eds. Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective (300–1600). Brill, 2015. https://brill.com/display/title/27092.
• Brown, Kathleen M. Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America. Yale University Press, 2009. Cockayne, Emily. Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770. Yale University Press, 2010.
• Dijk, C. (Kees) van, and Jean Gelman Taylor, eds. Cleanliness and Culture: Indonesian Histories. Brill, 2011. https://brill.com/edcollbook-oa/title/23359.
• Duffy, John. The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health. University of Illinois Press, 1992. Goubert, Jean-Pierre. The Conquest of Water: The Advent of Health in the Industrial Age. Princeton University Press, 1989.
• Halliday. The Great Filth: Disease, Death and the Victorian City. Illustrated edition. Stroud: The History Press, 2011.
• Hoy, Suellen. Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness. Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Kelley, Victoria. Soap and Water Cleanliness, Dirt and the Working Classes in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 2020.
• Liang, Qizi, Angela Ki Che Leung, and Charlotte Furth. Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century. Duke University Press, 2010.
• Macpherson, Kerrie L. A Wilderness of Marshes: The Origins of Public Health in Shanghai, 1843-1893. Lexington Books, 1987.
• Melosi, Martin V. Garbage In The Cities: Refuse Reform and the Environment. University of Pittsburgh Pre, 2004.
• ———. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
• North, Susan. Sweet and Clean?: Bodies and Clothes in Early Modern England. Oxford University Press, 2020.
• Ogle, Maureen. All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
• Peckham, Robert Shannan, and David M Pomfret. Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia, 2013.
• Pivar, David J. Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution, and the ‘American Plan,’ 1900-1930. Greenwood Press, 2002.
• Prasad, Srirupa. Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940: Contagions of Feeling, 2015.
• Rosen, George. A History of Public Health. JHU Press, 2015.
• Smith, Virginia. Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity. OUP Oxford, 2008.
• Tomory, Leslie. The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820. JHU Press, 2017.
• Vigarello, Georges. Concepts of Cleanliness: Changing Attitudes in France since the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Ward, W. Peter. The Clean Body: A Modern History. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019.
• Williams, Marilyn T. Washing ‘the Great Unwashed’: Public Baths in Urban America, 1840-1920. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
• Wright, Lawrence. Clean And Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom And WC. New ed of “Clean and Decent: History of the Bathroom and WC” edition. London: Penguin Classics, 2000.

Week 9 - Home and Domestic Space

Our focus this week will be on the home and domestic space, especially through a comparison of home cultures in 19-20th century urban China and Japan in the works of Elizabeth LaCouture and Jordan Sand.

Primary Sources and Activities

• We will have a group based discussion collecting ideas for the kinds of sources that can be used to explore domestic spaces.
• We will discuss some of the images from Jordan Sand’s first two chapters.
• We will do a short activity discussing this web advertisement The Lost Art of Japanese Dining Culture

Required Secondary Reading:

Elizabeth LaCouture, Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860–1960 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021). Ch 3-6. Ebook (P)

Jordan Sand, House and Home in Modern Japan: Reforming Everyday Life 1880-1930 (Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2005), Introduction and Ch 1-2 (pp1-94). Ebook (P)

Elective Reading:

• 1. Elizabeth LaCouture, ‘Translating Domesticity in Chinese History and Historiography’, The American Historical Review 124, no. 4 (1 October 2019): 1278–89, DOI.
• 2. Jordan Sand, House and Home in Modern Japan: Reforming Everyday Life 1880-1930 (Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2005), Introduction and Ch 3-4. Ebook
• 3. Rudolf Mrázek, A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of Its Intellectuals (Duke University Press, 2010). Ebook
  • Ch 1 The Walls pp24-71
• 4. Ozaki, Ritsuko, and John Rees Lewis. ‘Boundaries and the Meaning of Social Space: A Study of Japanese House Plans’. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24, no. 1 (1 February 2006): 91–104. DOI.
• 5. Yamaguchi, Kiyoko. “The New ‘American’ Houses in the Colonial Philippines and the Rise of the Urban Filipino Elite.” Philippine Studies 54, no. 3 (January 1, 2006): 412–51. Jstor
• 6. Timothy Mitchell Colonising Egypt University of California Press. Ch 2 “Enframing” Ebook

Further Reading

• A Cultural History of the Home series by Bloomsbury, 2021.
• Adler, K. H., and Carrie Hamilton, eds. Homes and Homecomings: Gendered Histories of Domesticity and Return. 1st edition. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
• Association for the Study of Modern Italy, and Perry R Willson, eds. Gender, Family, and Sexuality: The Private Sphere in Italy 1860-1945. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
• Baxstrom, Richard. Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia. Stanford University Press, 2008.
• Berry, Joan, and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, eds. A Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
• Birdwell-Pheasant, Donna, and Denise Lawrence-Züniga. House Life: Space, Place and Family in Europe. Routledge, 1999.
• Blunt, Alison. Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home. John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
• Bracken, Gregory Byrne. The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing Urban Vernacular. Routledge, 2013.
• Brecher, William Puck. Japan’s Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930. BRILL, 2021.
• Briganti, Chiara, and Kathy Mezei, eds. The Domestic Space Reader. Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
• Burton, Antoinette M.. Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India. Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Castillo, Greg. Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design. U of Minnesota Press, 2010.
• Cicraad, Irene, ed. At Home: An Anthropology of Domestic Space. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999.
• Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann, and Frances Gouda. Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender, and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism. University Press of Virginia, 1998.
• Cohen, Deborah. Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions. Yale University Press, 2006.
• Colomina, Beatriz. Domesticity at War. MIT Press, 2007.
• Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave. Basic Books, 1985.
• Daniels, Inge. The Japanese House: Material Culture in the Modern Home. Bloomsbury Academic, 2010.
• Davis, Mike. Planet of Slums. Verso, 2007.
• Després, Carole. “The Meaning of Home: Literature Review and Directions for Future Research and Theoretical Development,” 2021, 21.
• Douglas, Mary. ‘The Idea of a Home: A Kind of Space’. Social Research 58, no. 1 (1991): 287–307.
• Edwards, Clive, ed. A Cultural History of the Home in the Age of Enlightenment. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
• Edwards, Clive. Turning Houses into Homes: A History of the Retailing and Consumption of Domestic Furnishings. Routledge, 2017.
• Eibach, Joachim, and Margareth Lanzinger. The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe: 16th to 19th Century. Routledge, 2020.
• Finn, Margot, and Kate Smith. East India Company at Home, 1757-1857. UCL Press, 2018.
• Flather, Amanda, ed. A Cultural History of the Home in the Renaissance. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
• Fox, Michael Allen. Home: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, United Kingdom: OUP Oxford, 2016.
• Fraiman, Susan. Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins. Columbia University Press, 2017.
• Freeman, Judith, and June Freeman. The Making of the Modern Kitchen: A Cultural History. Berg Publishers, 2004.
• Freeman, June. The Making of the Modern Kitchen: A Cultural History. Berg Publishers, 2004.
• French, Katherine L., ed. A Cultural History of the Home in the Medieval Age. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
• Gamber, Wendy. The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
• Giles, Judy. The Parlour and the Suburb: Domestic Identities, Class, Femininity and Modernity. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2004.
• Ginsburg, Rebecca. At Home with Apartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in Johannesburg. University of Virginia Press, 2011.
• Goldberg, P. J. P. ‘Space and Gender in the Later Medieval English House’. Viator 42, no. 2 (January 2011): 205–32.
• Gordon, Andrew. “Managing the Japanese Household: The New Life Movement in Postwar Japan.” Soc Pol 4, no. 2 (June 1, 1997): 245–83. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/4.2.245.
• Gowrley, Freya. Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
• Hayden, Dolores. The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1981.
• Herman, Bernard L. Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830. UNC Press Books, 2012.
• Hohti, Paula. ‘Domestic Space and Identity: Artisans, Shopkeepers and Traders in Sixteenth-Century Siena’. Urban History 37, no. 3 (December 2010): 372–85.
• Jenkins, Virginia. The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession. Smithsonian Institution, 2015.
• Johnson, Matthew H. Housing Culture: Traditional Architecture In An English Landscape. Routledge, 2003.
• Jones, Robin D. Interiors of Empire: Objects, Space and Identity Within the Indian Subcontinent, C.1800-1947. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007.
• Kerber, Linda K. ‘Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman’s Place: The Rhetoric of Women’s History’. The Journal of American History 75, no. 1 (1988): 9–39.
• Knapp, Professor and Chairman Department of Geography Ronald G., Ronald G. Knapp, and Kai-Yin Lo. House, Home, Family: Living and Being Chinese. University of Hawaii Press, 2005.
• Knapp, Ronald G. Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia: The Eclectic Architecture of Sojourners and Settlers. Tuttle Publishing, 2013.
• Knapp, Ronald G. Chinese Houses: The Architectural Heritage of a Nation. Tuttle Publishing, 2012.
• Knoroz, Tatiana. Dissecting the Danchi: Inside Japan’s Largest Postwar Housing Experiment. Springer Nature, 2022.
• Koehler, Ben Jackson and Robert. Korean Architecture: Breathing with Nature. Seoul Selection, 2015.
• Kristoffersson, Sara. Design by IKEA: A Cultural History. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
• LaCouture, Elizabeth. ‘Translating Domesticity in Chinese History and Historiography’. The American Historical Review 124, no. 4 (1 October 2019): 1278–89.
• Lane, Barbara Miller, ed. Housing and Dwelling: Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture. Routledge, 2006.
• Lee, James. Housing, Home Ownership and Social Change in Hong Kong. Routledge, 2019.
• Lee, Peter, and Jennifer Chen. The Straits Chinese House: Domestic Life and Traditions. National Museum of Singapore, 2006.
• Li, Jie. Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life. Global Chinese Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. (P)
• Lim, Sungyun. Rules of the House: Family Law and Domestic Disputes in Colonial Korea. Univ of California Press, 2018.
• Lipsedge, Karen. Domestic Space in Eighteenth-Century British Novels. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
• Logan, Thad. The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study, 2006.
• Long, Helen C. The Edwardian House: The Middle-Class Home in Britain, 1880 - 1914. Manchester u.a.: Manchester Univ. Press, 2007.
• Lü, Junhua, Peter G. Rowe, and Jie Zhang. Modern Urban Housing in China, 1840-2000. Prestel, 2001.
• Marcus, Sharon. Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London, 2020.
• McLaren, Anne. Chinese Women - Living and Working. Routledge, 2005. (P)
• Mcgaughey, Sarah. ‘Kitchen Stories: Literary and Architectural Reflections on Modern Kitchens in Central Europe’. In Crossing Central Europe, edited by Helga Mitterbauer and Carrie Smith-Prei, 100–118. Continuities and Transformations, 1900 and 2000. University of Toronto Press, 2017.
• Min’an, Wang. Domestic Spaces in Post-Mao China: On Electronic Household Appliances. Routledge, 2017.
• Morley, David. Home Territories: Media, Mobility and Identity. Routledge, 2002.
• Myllyntaus, Timo. ‘The Entry of Males and Machines in the Kitchen: A Social History of the Microwave Oven in Finland’. Icon 16 (2010): 226–43.
• Neary, Rebecca. ‘Domestic Life and the Activist Wife in the 1930s Soviet Union’. In Borders of Socialism: Private Spheres of Soviet Russia, edited by Lewis H. Siegelbaum, 1st ed., 107–22. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
• Neiswander, Judy. The Cosmopolitan Interior: Liberalism and the British Home 1870-1914. Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2008.
• Nevett, Lisa C. House and Society in the Ancient Greek World. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Oldenziel, Ruth, and Karin Zachmann. Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users. MIT Press, 2009.
• Oliver, Paul. Dwellings: The Vernacular House World Wide. Phaidon Press, 2007.
• Orlin, Lena Cowen. Locating Privacy in Tudor London. OUP Oxford, 2007.
• Ozaki, Ritsuko. ‘Society and Housing Form: Home-Centredness in England vs. Family-Centredness in Japan’. Journal of Historical Sociology 14, no. 3 (2001): 337–57.
• Paramadhyaksa, I. Nyoman Widya, and Ngakan Ketut Acwin Dwijendra. ‘The Complexity of Orientation in Traditional Village Architecture in Bali, Indonesia’. Humanities Diliman: A Philippine Journal of Humanities 18, no. 1 (29 June 2021).
• Park, Nani, and Robert J. Fouser. Hanok: The Korean House. Tuttle Publishing, 2015.
• Pennell, Sara. The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.
• Pilkey, Brent, Rachel Scicluna, Ben Campkin, and Barbara Penner. Sexuality and Gender at Home: Experience, Politics, Transgression. Routledge, 2020.
• Pink, Sarah. Home Truths: Gender, Domestic Objects and Everyday Life. Oxford: Berg, 2004.
• Pink, Sarah. Home Truths: Gender, Domestic Objects and Everyday Life. Oxford: Berg, 2004.
• Ponsonby, Margaret. Stories from Home: English Domestic Interiors, 1750–1850. Routledge, 2016.
• Ravetz, Alison, and R. Turkington. The Place of Home: English Domestic Environments, 1914-2000. Routledge, 2013.
• Ronald G. Knapp, and Kai-Yin Lo. House, Home, Family: Living and Being Chinese. University of Hawaii Press, 2005.
• Ronald, Richard, and Allison Alexy. Home and Family in Japan: Continuity and Transformation. Routledge, 2017. (P)
• Rothschild, Emma. The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History. Princeton University Press, 2012.
• Rybczynski, Witold. Home: A Short History of an Idea. New York, NY: Penguin, 1987.
• Ryrie, Alec. Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain. Routledge, 2016.
• Saito, Satoru. Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880-1930. Harvard University Asia Center, 2012. (P)
• Schneider, Helen M. Keeping the Nation’s House: Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China UBC Press, 2011.
• Shrum, Rebecca K. ‘Selling Mr. Coffee: Design, Gender, and the Branding of a Kitchen Appliance’. Winterthur Portfolio 46, no. 4 (2012): 271–98.
• Stobart, Jon, and Andrew Hann. The Country House: Material Culture and Consumption. Historic England, 2016.
• Stobart, Jon. The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
• Stratigakos, Despina. Hitler at Home. Yale University Press, 2015.
• Surmann, Antonia, Anneli Käsmayr, and Raphaela Reinmann. ‘The Evolution of Kitchen Design: A Yearning for a Modern Stone Age Cave’. In Culinary Turn, edited by Nicolaj van der Meulen and Jörg Wiesel, 47–56. Aesthetic Practice of Cookery. Transcript Verlag, 2017.
• Tang, Beibei. China’s Housing Middle Class: Changing Urban Life in Gated Communities. Routledge, 2017.
• Tosh, John. ‘Home and Away: The Flight from Domesticity in Late-Nineteenth-Century England Re-Visited’. Gender & History 27, no. 3 (2015): 561–75.
• Tosh, John. A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England. Yale University Press, 2008.
• Tromly, Lucas. ‘Tourists in the Kitchen: Asian American Culinary Travelogues’. MELUS 43, no. 1 (2018): 46–64.
• Tuori, Kaius, and Laura Nissin. Public and Private in the Roman House and Society. Journal of Roman Archaeology, L.L.C., 2015.
• Wiedmer, C., and S. Hardy. Motherhood and Space: Configurations of the Maternal through Politics, Home, and the Body. Springer, 2016.
• Wiese, Andrew. Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century. University of Chicago Press, 2009.
• Woodforde, John. The Truth about Cottages. Routledge & K. Paul, 1979.
• Wright, Gwendolyn. Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913. 1st edition. Chicago: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1980.
• Yan, Yunxiang. Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999. Stanford University Press, 2003. (P)
• Yates, Alexia. ‘Home-Making: Returnees, Squatters, and Planners in Postwar France’. Journal of Urban History 45, no. 5 (1 September 2019): 1084–88.

Week 10 - Housing

Primary Sources

• HDB Our Home Magazine - You can find a collection of the 1972-1979 issues from this magazine on Teams as well as a few 1980s issues. Browse the issues and take some notes to share on the following questions: What can we learn about the purpose and priorities of HDB from the magazine’s contents? What can the articles reveal about ongoing and evolving challenges faced by residents of HDB flats or its state developers? What can we learn about HDB housing estates as spaces from the articles found in the collection? Are there any interesting changes over time (look at both early and late issues)? What are some examples of how informational articles may serve a didactic purpose in the creation not only of ideal residents but, more broadly, citizens? Choose an article or three to share with classmates.

• Ann Waswo Housing in Postwar Japan Ch 2 “Experiencing the Housing Crisis” by Kyōko Sasaki pp5-38 Ebook - As you read this, take some notes on the following questions to share: What are some of the ways we may see the impact of class (in terms of the conveniences and challenges of the kind of home afforded or accessible) as well as company status in terms of the housing experience described? What are some examples that this first person account, with its details on daily life and spatial practice provide valuable information to help understand residential spaces and their surrounding contexts in a way that floor plans or neighborhood maps cannot do on their own?

• Watch the HDB film clip on the The Void Deck and Our Void Deck. This is an example of efforts to promote the capacity of public spaces in housing estates to the end of community building. Think about other examples of spaces that may service a similar role in public housing, surburban, or rural contexts elsewhere or at other times. How might a historian go about studying these spaces?

Secondary Sources

Ann Waswo Housing in Postwar Japan Ch 3-4 39-85 Ebook

Read more deeply in either the Japanese or Singapore cases:

1. Knoroz, Tatiana. Dissecting the Danchi: Inside Japan’s Largest Postwar Housing Experiment. Springer Nature, 2022. Ebook Ch 1 Japanese Prewar Housing 1-36; Ch 2 The Short History of Danchi

2. Chua, Beng-Huat. Political Legitimacy and Housing: Singapore’s Stakeholder Society. Routledge, 2002. Ch 4 Modernism and the Vernacular: Public Spaces and Social Life and Ch 5 Adjusting Religious Practices to Different House-forms (Teams)

Elective Reading Categories

• 1. Hanchao Lu Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century Ch 4 The Homes of the Little Urbanites, pp138-185 Ebook
     
• 2. Lily Kong and Brenda S. A. Yeoh, The Politics of Landscapes in Singapore: Constructions of ‘Nation’ (Syracuse University Press, 2003). Ch 6 Housing the People, Building a “Nation” pp94-117 (Library)
     
• 3. Neitzel, Laura. The Life We Longed for: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan. MerwinAsia, 2016. Ch 1-2 (Library)
     
• 4. Knoroz, Tatiana. Dissecting the Danchi: Inside Japan’s Largest Postwar Housing Experiment. Springer Nature, 2022. Ebook Ch 3
     
• 5. Crowley, David, and Susan E. Reid, eds. Socialist Spaces: Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc. Berg Publishers, 2002. Ch 10 Public Privacy in the Soviet Communal Apartment (Library)
     
• 6. Nikhil Rao House, But No Garden: Apartment Living in Bombay’s Suburbs, 1898-1964. Ch 3 The Rise of the Bombay Flat (Library)
     
• 7. Mass Housing in Europe: Multiple Faces of Development, Change and Response Ch 6 Public Space in Large Housing Estates pp131-153 (Teams)

Further Reading

• Harloe, Michael. The People’s Home?: Social Rented Housing in Europe and America. John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
• Hirayama, Yosuke, and Richard Ronald. Housing and Social Transition in Japan. Routledge, 2006.
• Kiefer, Christie “The Danchi Zoku and the Evolution of the Metropolitan Mind” in Japan: The Paradox of Progress edited by Lewis Austin, 1976 pp279-300.
• Andrusz, Gregory, Michael Harloe, and Ivan Szelenyi. Cities After Socialism: Urban and Regional Change and Conflict in Post-Socialist Societies. John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
• Austen, Ben. High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing. HarperCollins, 2019.
• Barr, Michael D., and Zlatko Skrbiš. Constructing Singapore: Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation-Building Project. NIAS Press, 2008.
• Bishop, Ryan, John Phillips, and Wei-Wei Yeo. Beyond Description: Singapore Space Historicity. Routledge, 2004.
• Briggs, Xavier de Souza, Susan J. Popkin, and John Goering. Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty. Oxford University Press, USA, 2010.
• Cardesín, José María. ‘City, Housing and Welfare in Spain, from the Civil War to Present Times’. Urban History 43, no. 2 (May 2016): 285–305. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926815000437.
• Chua, Beng-Huat. Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore. Routledge, 2002.
• ———. Political Legitimacy and Housing: Singapore’s Stakeholder Society. Routledge, 2002.
• Coleman, Alice, and King’s College London Design Disadvantagement Team. Utopia on Trial: Vision and Reality in Planned Housing. H. Shipman, 1985.
• Cupers, Kenny. The Social Project: Housing Postwar France. U of Minnesota Press, 2014.
• Davis, Mike. Planet of Slums. Verso, 2007.
• Drėmaitė, Marija. Baltic Modernism: Architecture and Housing in Soviet Lithuania. DOM Publishers, 2017.
• Eastaway, Montserrat Pareja, Teresa Tapada Berteli, Brechtje van Boxmeer, and Lídia Garcia Ferrando. Large Housing Estates in Spain: Overview of Developments and Problems in Madrid and Barcelona. Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, 2003.
• Fernandes, Edesio, and Ann Varley. Illegal Cities: Law and Urban Change in Developing Countries. Zed Books, 1998.
• Harloe, Michael. The People’s Home?: Social Rented Housing in Europe and America. John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
• Harris, Steven E. Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin. Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
• Heng, Chye Kiang. 50 Years Of Urban Planning In Singapore. World Scientific, 2016.
• Hess, Daniel Baldwin, Tiit Tammaru, and Maarten van Ham. Housing Estates in Europe: Poverty, Ethnic Segregation and Policy Challenges. Springer, 2018.
• Jephcott, Pearl. Homes in High Flats: Some of the Human Problems Involved in Multi-Storey Housing. Taylor & Francis, 1971.
• Kempen, Ronald van. Restructuring Large Housing Estates in Europe: Restructuring and Resistance Inside the Welfare Industry. Policy Press, 2005.
• Lane, Barbara Miller, ed. Housing and Dwelling: Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture. Routledge, 2006.
• Lee, James. Housing, Home Ownership and Social Change in Hong Kong. Routledge, 2019.
• Loh, Kah Seng. Squatters Into Citizens: The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore. Asian Studies Association of Australia, 2013.
• McCann, Bryan. Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Duke University Press, 2014.
• Moskowitz, P. E. How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood. Hachette UK, 2017.
• Musterd, Sako. Mass Housing in Europe: Multiple Faces of Development, Change and Response. Springer, 2009.
• Neitzel, Laura. The Life We Longed for: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan. MerwinAsia, 2016.
• Perlman, Janice. Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro. Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Phang, Sock-Yong. Policy Innovations for Affordable Housing In Singapore. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75349-2.
• Power, A. Estates on the Edge: The Social Consequences of Mass Housing in Northern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1997.
• Pritchard, R. M. Housing and the Spatial Structure of the City: Residential Mobility and the Housing Market in an English City since the Industrial Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• Schneider, Cathy. Shantytown Protest in Pinochet’s Chile. Temple University Press, 1995.
• Tang, Beibei. China’s Housing Middle Class: Changing Urban Life in Gated Communities. Routledge, 2017.
• Tighe, J. Rosie, and Elizabeth J. Mueller. The Affordable Housing Reader. Routledge, 2013.
• Turner, John F. C. Housing by People: Towards Autonomy in Building Environments. Pantheon Books, 1977.
• Turner, John F. C., and Robert Fichter. Freedom to Build: Dweller Control of the Housing Process. Macmillan, 1972.
• Urban, Florian. Tower and Slab: Histories of Global Mass Housing. Routledge, 2013.
• Vale, Lawrence J. From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors. Harvard University Press, 2000.
• Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi. American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto. Harvard University Press, 2000.
• Watt, Paul. Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London. Policy Press, 2021.
• Yanni, Carla. Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory. U of Minnesota Press, 2019.
• Yung, Betty. Hong Kong’s Housing Policy: A Case Study in Social Justice. Hong Kong University Press, 2008.

Week 11 - Neighbourhood, and Suburb

Required Primary Sources:

• This week I’d like to hear from students about their primary sources that they will be using in their long essay. Bring along a single primary source, and post to the teams Files tab if you have it in digital form, and be prepared to introduce a) the broader range of primary sources you will be using for the essay b) some context/details about the specific source you found and how you came across it c) discuss what you think the source will help you argue in your long essay.

Required Secondary Reading:

• Bray, David. ‘Designing to Govern: Space and Power in Two Wuhan Communities’. Built Environment (1978-) 34, no. 4 (2008): 392–407. Jstor

• Hein, Carola. ‘Machi Neighborhood and Small Town—The Foundation for Urban Transformation in Japan’. Journal of Urban History 35, no. 1 (11 January 2008): 75–107. DOI

• Jordan Sand, House and Home in Modern Japan: Reforming Everyday Life 1880-1930 (Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2005), Ch 7 “Culture Villages: Inscribing Cosmopolitanism in the Landscape” Ebook

• Bestor, Theodore C. Neighborhood Tokyo. Stanford University Press, 1990. Ch 1 and 5 (Teams)

Elective Reading:

• 1. Marc Askew, Bangkok: Place, Practice and Representation (Routledge, 2002). Ebook
  • Ch 6 A Place in the Suburbs: Making a Neighbourhood in the Middle-Class Housing Estate pp170-193
• 2. Nikhil Rao House, But No Garden: Apartment Living in Bombay’s Suburbs, 1898-1964. (Library)
  • Ch 2 Peopling the Suburbs
• 3. Lizzy van Leeuwen, Lost in Mall: An Ethnography of Middle-Class Jakarta in the 1990s (2011). Ebook
  • Ch 2 Scenes of Suburban Family Life
• 4. Tang, Beibei. Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China: Changing State-Society Relations (2023) Ebook
  • Ch 1 Diversification Of Neighborhood Governance
• 5. Zhou, Xiang, and Yuning Cheng. ‘Between State and Family: Discussion on the Segregation and Integration of the Daily Living Space within Shanghai Historic Lane Neighborhood’. Home Cultures 16, no. 3 (2 September 2019): 163–90. DOI.
• 6. Read, Benjamin Lelan. Roots of the State: Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei. Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2012. (Library)
  • Introduction and Ch 1 The Little Platoon
• 7. Hastings, Sally Ann. Neighborhood and Nation in Tokyo, 1905–1937. University of Pittsburgh Pre, 1995. (Library)
  • Ch 3 Residents Leading Residents

Spring Semester

Week 1 - Space and Mobility

Required Reading:

• Cresswell, Tim. Place: An Introduction. 2nd edition. Ch 3 ‘Place in a Mobile World’ pp62-87.

• Köll, Elisabeth. Railroads and the Transformation of China. Harvard University Press, 2019. Ebook Ch 4 Moving People, Transmitting Ideas

• Freedman, Alisa. Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road. Ebook Introduction and Ch 2

Elective Reading:

• 1. Lewis, Su Lin Cities in Motion Ebook Ch 2 Asian Port-Cities in a Turbulent Age only: Transport: Cities on the Move pp79-83
• 2. Abel, Jessamyn. Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World’s First Bullet Train Stanford University Press, 2022. Ch 2 Reconstructing the Tōkaidō Ebook
• 3. Grunow, Tristan R. ‘Pebbles of Progress: Streets and Urban Modernity in Early Meiji Tokyo’. Japan Forum 0, no. 0 (13 November 2019): 1–26. DOI
• 4. Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs: The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920-1960 Ebook Ch 10 Moving at a Different Velocity: The Modernization of Transportation and Social Differentiation in Surabaya in the 1920s pp251-269
• 5. Madeleine Yue Dong, Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories Ch 2 The City and its People - Local Interests and Development: The Streetcar System pp66-71 Ebook
• 6. Lee, Anru, ‘Subways as a Space of Cultural Intimacy: The Mass Rapid Transit System in Taipei, Taiwan’ in The China Journal No.58 (Jul., 2007) Jstor
• 7. Frasch, Tilman. ‘Tracks in the City: Technology, Mobility and Society in Colonial Rangoon and Singapore’. Modern Asian Studies 46, no. 1 (2012): 97–118. DOI
• 8. Nakamura, Naofumi. “Railway Systems and Time Consciousness in Modern Japan.” Japan Review, no. 14 (2002): 13–38.
• 1. Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano Ebook Ch 5 “Flying Geisha”: Japanese Stewardesses with Pan American World Airways pp85-106
• 10. Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano Ebook Ch 6 Bus Guides Tour National Landscapes, Pop Culture, and Youth Fantasies pp107-130
• 11. Fisch, Michael. An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo’s Commuter Train Network. University of Chicago Press, 2018. Introduction + Ch 1. Ebook

Further Reading:

• Cresswell, Timothy. On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World. Routledge, 2012.
• Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century. 1 edition. University of California Press, 2014.
• Büscher, Monika, John Urry, and Katian Witchger. Mobile Methods. Routledge, 2010.
• Cresswell, Tim. Gendered Mobilities. Routledge, 2016.
• Cresswell, Tim, and Peter Merriman. Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013.
• Kwan, Mei-Po, and Tim Schwanen. Geographies of Mobility: Recent Advances in Theory and Method. Routledge, 2018.
• Larsen, Jonas, and John Urry. Mobilities, Networks, Geographies. Routledge, 2016.
• Merriman, Peter. Mobility, Space, and Culture. Routledge, 2012.
• Wright, Tim. “Shanghai Imperialists versus Rickshaw Racketeers: The Defeat of the 1934 Rickshaw Reforms.” Modern China 17, no. 1 (January 1, 1991): 76–111. JSTOR
• Traganou, Jilly. 2004. The Tōkaidō Road: Traveling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan (Library) Ch 3 Traveling Practices and Literary Tōkaidō + Ch 4 Performance, Visuality and Imagination at the Tōkaidō’s micro-scale
• Warren, Jim. “The Singapore Rickshaw Pullers: The Social Organization of a Coolie Occupation, 1880-1940.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 16, no. 1 (March 1, 1985): 1–15.
• Dick, H. W., and Peter James Rimmer. Cities, Transport, and Communications: The Integration of Southeast Asia Since 1850. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Ebook
• Ericson, Steven J. The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan. Harvard Univ Asia Center, 1996 (P)
• Fraser, Benjamin, and Steven D. Spalding. Trains, Culture, and Mobility: Riding the Rails. Lexington Books, 2011.
• White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. W. W. Norton & Company, 2011.
• Dick, Howard, and Peter J. Rimmer. “River Cities: Bangkok, Rangoon and Saigon.” In Cities, Transport and Communications: The Integration of Southeast Asia since 1850, edited by Howard Dick and Peter J. Rimmer, 289–318.
• Francis, Ric, and Colin Ganley. Penang Trams, Trolleybuses & Railways: Municipal Transport History, 1889s-1963. Penang: Areca Books, 2006.
• McKay, John P., and John P. Mac Kay. Tramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe. Princeton University Press, 1976.
• Warner, Sam Bass. Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900. 2nd edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.
• Barnett, Martin. Tramlines: The Story of the Hong Kong Tramway System South China Morning Post, 1984.
• York, F. W., and A. R. Phillips. Singapore: A History of Its Trams, Trolleybuses & Buses Vol. I: 1880’s to 1960’s. Croydon: DTS Publishing Ltd, 1996.

Week 2 - The Tourist Gaze

Primary Sources

In class we will do two primary source exercises with sources you will be given in class using a padlet to collect ideas:

1. Everyone will be given some copies of the Lonely Planet guide to various countries in East and Southeast Asia. Each of you will choose a book and be given a few minutes to explore the book. Focus in on one ore more of the following: a) the overall set up for the book, how is this location depicted as attractive overall in the book in terms of the cover, front matter, and early pages of the work. a) the overall description of the country and its people early the book b) choose one of the locations that is given a significant amount of space, or else compare a similar category of locations throughout the book.

What are interesting patterns or recurring descriptions you can identify in terms of how the location, the people, or the culture of the host country is described? What kind of experience is being crafted for the tourist in terms of tours in a de Certeau sense?

2. Next, everyone will be given copies of some tourist guidebooks from the early to mid-20th century. Repeat the task, but also explore some of the differences between these guidebooks and the more familiar style of recent works. What are salient differences? What are some things that are similar?

Secondary Sources

Urry, John and Jonas Larsen The Tourist Gaze 3.0: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies (2011) Ebook Ch 1 Theories pp1-31

Baranowski, Shelley et al., “Tourism and Empire,” Journal of Tourism History 7, no. 1–2 (May 4, 2015): 100–130, DOI

Vickers, Adrian Bali: A Paradise Created (2012 [1996]) Introduction and Ch 3 (Teams)

View the documentary Done Bali (1993, 60 minutes, Teams)

Elective Reading:

1. Mo, Yajun. Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949. Cornell University Press, 2021. Ebook Introduction and Ch 1 and Ch 5

2. Demay, Aline. Tourism and Colonization in Indochina (1898-1939). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. (P) Introduction and Ch 1-2.

3. MacDonald, Kate Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan (University of California Press, 2017), Ch 1-2 and Ch 4 (open access Ebook)

4. Ruoff, Kenneth J. Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire’s 2,600th Anniversary. (2010) Ch 3-5 (82-147). Ebook

5. Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture (2009) Ebook Ch 6 Japanese Tourists in Korea: Colonial and Post-Colonial Encounters and Ch 3 Japanese inns (ryokan) as producers of Japanese identity

6. Kendall, Laurel, ed. Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance. (2010). Ebook Introduction and Ch 3-4

7. Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. Routledge, 2010. (P) Ebook Introduction and Ch 3 Narrating the anti-conquest

8. Jenks, Chris ed. Visual Culture (1995) Ch 1 The Centrality of the Eye Ch 8 Watching Your Step

9. Fogel, Joshua A. Traditions of East Asian Travel. Berghahn Books, 2005. Ebook

10. Fogel, Joshua A. The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China, 1862-1945. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1996. Introduction and Ch 3

Further Reading

• Picard, Michel. ‘Cultural Heritage and Tourist Capital: Cultural Tourism in Bali’. In International Tourism: Identity and Change. SAGE, 1995.
• Funck, Carolin, and Malcolm Cooper. Japanese Tourism: Spaces, Places and Structures. (2015). Ebook
• Blunt, Alison. Travel, Gender and Imperialism: Mary Kingsley and West Africa. 1 edition. New York: Guilford Press, 1994.
• Ryang, Sonia. “Japanese Travellers in Korea.” East Asian History, no. 13/14 (1997).
• Esherick, Joseph, ed. “Tourism and Spatial Change in Hangzhou, 1911–1927.” In Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950, Pbk. ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2002.
• Scranton, Philip and Janet F. Davidson. The Business of Tourism: Place, Faith, and History. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
• Joseph De Sapio Modernity and Meaning in Victorian London Tourist Views of the Imperial Capital (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
• Picard, David, and Mike Robinson. The Framed World: Tourism, Tourists and Photography. Routledge, 2016. Ebook
• Barclay, Paul D. “Peddling Postcards and Selling Empire: Image-Making in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule,” Japanese Studies 30, no. 1 (May 1, 2010): 81–110, DOI.
• Nenzi, Laura Nenz Detto. Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Edo Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 2008. (P)
• Akiko, Yosano. Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia. Translated by Joshua A. Fogel. Columbia University Press, 2001. Ebook
• Buzard, James. The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to Culture, 1800 - 1918. Oxford u.a.: Clarendon Press, 2001. Ebook
• MacLean, Gerald M. The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. (P)
• Russian Views of Japan, 1792-1913: An Anthology of Travel Writing. RoutledgeCurzon Studies in the Modern History of Asia 23. London ; New York, NY: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
• Judd, Dennis R., and Susan S. Fainstein. The Tourist City. Yale University Press, 1999.
• Skwiot, Christine. The Purposes of Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai’i. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
• MacCannell, Dean. The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class. University of California Press, 1999.
• Smith, Valene L. Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Ebook
• Hall, Michael C., and Hazel Tucker. Tourism and Postcolonialism: Contested Discourses, Identities and Representations. Routledge, 2004. Ebook
• MacCannell, Dean. The Ethics of Sightseeing. University of California Press, 2011. Eboo
• Hazbun, Waleed. Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World. U of Minnesota Press, 2008.
• Weisenfeld, Gennifer S. ‘Touring “Japan-As-Museum”: NIPPON and Other Japanese Imperialist Travelogues’. Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 8, no. 3 (1 November 2000): 747–93. Muse

Week 3 - Parks, Gardens, and Squares

Our focus this week is on garden and park spaces. We will especially focus on the history of the ‘zen’ garden, but also the spatial history of public parks and squares more generally.

Primary Sources and Activities

• We will be discussing the Cowden Japanese garden in Dollar, Scotland.
  • Background (Archived)
  • History (Archived)
  • Ecological History (Archived)
• We will do a group exercise examining some accounts of zen garden visits from the early 20th century and more recent times.

Required Reading

Tagsold, Christian. Spaces in Translation: Japanese Gardens and the West. Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Introduction, Ch 1-5. Ebook

Elective Reading Categories:

• 1. Jordan Sand, Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects (University of California Press, 2013), Introduction and Ch 1 “Hiroba: The Public Square and the Boundaries of the Commons” Ebook
• 2. Allen, Joseph R. “Taipei Park: Signs of Occupation.” The Journal of Asian Studies 66, no. 1 (February 1, 2007): 159–99. https://doi.org/10.2307/20203109. Jstor
• 3. Chalana, Manish, ed. Messy Urbanism: Understanding the “Other” Cities of Asia. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017. Chapter 5 “The Royal Field (Sanam Luang): Bangkok’s Polysemic Urban Palimpsest” Ebook
• 4. Chalana, Manish, ed. Messy Urbanism: Understanding the “Other” Cities of Asia. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017. Ch 5 The Royal Field (Sanam Luang): Bangkok’s Polysemic Urban Palimpsest Ebook
• 5. Mingzheng Shi, ‘From Imperial Gardens to Public Parks: The Transformation of Urban Space in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing’, Modern China 24, no. 3 (1998): 219–54. Jstor
• 6. Lee, Haiyan. “The Ruins of Yuanmingyuan Or, How to Enjoy a National Wound.” Modern China 35, no. 2 (March 1, 2009): 155–90. Jstor
• 7. Tagsold, Christian. Spaces in Translation: Japanese Gardens and the West. Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Ch 6-7. Ebook

Further Reading

• Hung, Wu. ‘Tiananmen Square: A Political History of Monuments’. Representations, no. 35 (1 July 1991): 84–117.
• Hung, Wu. Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space. Reaktion Books, 2005. (P)
• Bickers, Robert A., and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. “Shanghai’s ‘Dogs and Chinese Not Admitted’ Sign: Legend, History and Contemporary Symbol.” The China Quarterly, no. 142 (1995): 444–66. jstor
• Yuezhi, Xiong. ‘From Racecourse to People’s Park and People’s Square: Historical Transformation and Symbolic Significance’. Urban History 38, no. Special Issue 03 (2011): 475–90.
• Barnard, Timothy P. Nature’s Colony: Empire, Nation and Environment in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. NUS Press, 2016. (P)
• Prest, John. The Garden of Eden: The Botanic Garden and the Re-Creation of Paradise. Yale University Press, 1988. (P)
• Rosenzweig, Roy, and Elizabeth Blackmar. The Park and the People: A History of Central Park. Cornell University Press, 1992.
• Hotta-Lister, A. The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910: Gateway to the Island Empire of the East. 1 edition. Richmond: Routledge, 1999.
• Takei, Jiro, Marc Peter Keane, and Marc P. Keane. Sakuteiki: Visions of the Japanese Garden: A Modern Translation of Japan’s Gardening Classic. Tuttle Publishing, 2008. (P)
• Tschumi, Christian. Mirei Shigemori - Rebel in the Garden: Modern Japanese Landscape Architecture. Walter de Gruyter, 2012. (P)
• ———. Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing the Japanese Garden. Stone Bridge Press, 2005. (P)
• Yamada, Shoji. Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West. University of Chicago Press, 2011. (P)

Week 4 - Museums and Exhibitions

Required Reading:

Todd Henry, Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910-45 Ch 3 ‘Material Assimilation: Colonial Expositions on the Kyŏngbok Palace Grounds’ Ebook

Mitchell, Timothy. ‘The World as Exhibition’. Comparative Studies in Society and History 31, no. 2 (April 1989): 217–36. DOI

Count Hirokichi Mutsu, “The Japan-British Exhibition, 1910,” Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 58, no. 2983 (January 21, 1910): 232–43. JSTOR

Elective Reading

(if you would like to give a presentation, feel free to choose any of the texts below)

• 2. Peterson, William. Asian Self-Representation at World’s Fairs. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. Ebook Introduction and Ch 2.
• 3. Coté, Joost. ‘Staging Modernity: The Semarang International Colonial Exhibition, 1914’. Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs 40, no. 1 (1 January 2006): 1–44.
• 4. Hotta-Lister, A. The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910: Gateway to the Island Empire of the East. 1 edition. Richmond: Routledge, 1999. Introduction + Ch 2-3, 5 Ebook
• 5. Peterson, William. Asian Self-Representation at World’s Fairs. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. Three chapters from among 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 Ebook
• 6. Raizman, David, and Ethan Robey. Expanding Nationalisms at World’s Fairs: Identity, Diversity, and Exchange, 1851-1915. Routledge, 2017. Introduction + Ch 1, 9 Ebook
• 7. Rydell, Robert W. All the World’s a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916 Introduction + Ch 2, 4, 5 (Hard copy in Library)
• 8. Kal, Hong. Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism: Spectacle, Politics and History. Routledge, 2011. (Hard Copy in Library) Introduction + Ch 1-2
• 1. Em, Henry. The Great Enterprise: Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea. Duke University Press, 2013. Ebook Ch 2 Korea’s Participation in Chicago World Fair + Kari Shepherdson-Scott, ‘Conflicting Politics and Contesting Borders: Exhibiting (Japanese) Manchuria at the Chicago World’s Fair, 1933–34’, The Journal of Asian Studies 74, no. 03 (August 2015): 539–64, DOI

Further Reading

• Alan Tansman ed. The Culture of Japanese Fascism. De Gruyter: Duke University Press, 2009. Ebook Ch 11 Expo Fascism?: Ideology, Representation, Economy
• Hanscom, Christopher P., and Dennis Washburn, eds. The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire. De Gruyter: University of Hawaii Press, 2016. Ebook
• Coletta, Cristina Della. World’s Fairs Italian-Style: The Great Expositions in Turin and Their Narratives, 1860-1915. University of Toronto Press, 2006.
• Filipová, Marta. Cultures of International Exhibitions 1840-1940: Great Exhibitions in the Margins. Routledge, 2017.
• Geppert, A. Fleeting Cities: Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe. Springer, 2010.
• Greenhalgh, Paul. Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions and World’s Fairs, 1851-1939, 1991.
• Kal, Hong. “Modeling the West, Returning to Asia: Shifting Politics of Representation in Japanese Colonial Expositions in Korea.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 47, no. 3 (2005): 507–31.
• Lockyer, Angus. Japan at the Exhibition, 1867-1970. PhD Dissertation, Stanford University, 2000.
• Maloney, Cathy Jean. World’s Fair Gardens: Shaping American Landscapes. University of Virginia Press, 2012.
• Molella, Arthur P., and Scott Gabriel Knowles. World’s Fairs in the Cold War: Science, Technology, and the Culture of Progress. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Ebook
• Lawn, Martin. Modelling the Future: Exhibitions and the Materiality of Education. Symposium Books Ltd, 2009.
• Kaiser, Wolfram. ‘The Great Derby Race: Strategies of Cultural Representation at Nineteenth-Century World Exhibitions’. In Chapter 2. The Great Derby Race: Strategies of Cultural Representation at Nineteenth-Century World Exhibitions, 43–59. Berghahn Books, 2003. Ebook
• Boone, M. Elizabeth. “The Spanish Element in Our Nationality”: Spain and America at the World’s Fairs and Centennial Celebrations, 1876–1915. Electronic book. De Gruyter: Penn State University Press, 2021.
• Busch, Jason T., Catherine Futter, Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Stephen Harrison, Karin A. Jones, Martin Levy, Dawn Reid, et al. Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851-1939. Pittsburgh, Pa. : Kansas City, Mo. : New York: Carnegie Museum of Art ; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ; Skira Rizzoli, 2012.
• Kargon, Robert H., Karen Fiss, Morris Low, and Arthur P. Molella. World’s Fairs on the Eve of War: Science, Technology, & Modernity, 1937-1942. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.
• Park Young-sin. “Making ‘Modern’ Korean Subjects: The Chosŏn Industrial Exhibition of 1915” Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University. Accessed July 19, 2021. DOI
• Raizman, David, and Ethan Robey. Expanding Nationalisms at World’s Fairs: Identity, Diversity, and Exchange, 1851-1915. Routledge, 2017. Ebook
• Rydell, Robert W. All the World’s a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
• ———. World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
• • Rydell, Robert W., and Laura Burd Schiavo. Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s. Yale University Press, 2010.
• Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio. Mexico at the World’s Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation. Univ of California Press, 2018.
• Wesemael, Pieter van. Architecture of Instruction and Delight: A Socio-Historical Analysis of World Exhibitions as a Didactic Phenomenon (1798-1851-1970)
• Wright, Dr Jonathan Jeffrey, and Dr Diarmid A. Finnegan. Spaces of Global Knowledge: Exhibition, Encounter and Exchange in an Age of Empire. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2015.
• Huang Shumei and Lee Hyun Kyung Heritage, Memory, and Punishment Ebook

Week 5 - Social Spaces

Required Reading

Zhang, Amanda. ‘Confessions of a Dance Hostess: Social Dancing in Shanghai and Self-Portrayals of Hostess-Writers, 1930-1949 | British Journal of Chinese Studies’, 27 July 2019. Online.

Freedman, Alisa et al. ed. Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan (2013) Ebook Ch 4 Sweat, Perfume, and Tobacco: The Ambivalent Labor of the Dancehall Girl pp67-84

Field, Andrew. Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Modernity in Old Shanghai, 1919-1954 (2010). Introduction, Ch 2 and Ch 4. (Teams)

Elective Readings:

• 1. Lewis, Su Lin Cities in Motion: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920–1940 Ebook Ch 6 Gramophones, Cinema Halls, and Bobbed Hair pp227-263 and Soundscapes and Cinema in Globalising the City p231-246
• 2. Di Wang The Teahouse: Small Business, Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in Chengdu 1900-1950 Introduction, pp1-23, Ch 4 Public Life and Ch 5 Entertainment pp113-166. (Teams - Note: Wang has another book on Chengdu teahouses, don’t confuse them!)
• 3. Wang The Teahouse Ch 1 Small Business, Ch 6 All Walks of Life
• 4. Qin Shao, ‘Tempest over Teapots: The Vilification of Teahouse Culture in Early Republican China’, The Journal of Asian Studies 57, no. 4 (1998): 1009–41, DOI
• 5. Ning Jennifer Chang, ‘To See and Be Seen: Horse Racing in Shanghai, 1848–1945’, in The Habitable City in China: Urban History in the Twentieth Century Ebook
• 6. Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, ‘Dining Out in the Land of Desire: Colonial Seoul and the Korean Culture of Consumption’, in Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance
• 7. Atkins, E. Taylor. Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan (2001) Ebook Ch 2 The Soundtrack of Modern Life: Japan’s Jazz Revolution pp45-91
• 8. Lawrence Chua, Ronald G. Knapp, and Xing Ruan, Bangkok Utopia: Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, 1910–1973 (2021) Ch 6 Sensuous Citizenship Formation and the Architecture of the Cinema pp105-128 Ebook
• 1. Frederic Wakeman, ‘Licensing Leisure: The Chinese Nationalists’ Attempt to Regulate Shanghai, 1927-49’, The Journal of Asian Studies 54, no. 1 (1995): 19–42, https://doi.org/10.2307/2058949.
• 10. Aljunied, Khairudin. ‘Coffee-Shops in Colonial Singapore: Domains of Contentious Publics’. History Workshop Journal 77 (1 April 2014): 65–85. DOI

Further Reading

• Clark, Peter. British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800: The Origins of an Associational World. OUP Oxford, 2000.
• Segel, Harold B. Turn-of-the-Century Cabaret: Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Cracow, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Zurich. Columbia University Press, 1987. Ebook
• Maekawa Reiko, et al. Crossing Cultural Boundaries in East Asia and Beyond Ch 5 Making Coffee, Making Space: Coffee Shops as Sites of Cultural Encounter Ebook
• Andrew Field Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics
• Keppy, Peter. Tales of Southeast Asia’s Jazz Age: Filipinos, Indonesians and Popular Culture, 1920-1936. NUS Press, 2019.
• Jones, Andrew F. Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age. Duke University Press, 2001. Ebook
• Farrer and Field Shanghai Nightscapes
• Joachim Schlör Nights in the Big City: Paris, Berlin, London, 1840-1930 Ebook
• Brennan, Thomas Edward. Public Drinking and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Princeton University Press, 2014. Ebook
• Clark, Peter. The English Alehouse: A Social History, 1200-1830. Longman, 1983.
• Gilmartin, Kevin, ed. Sociable Places: Locating Culture in Romantic-Period Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Ebook
• Hailwood, Mark. Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England. Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2014.
• Jennings, Paul. The Local: A History of the English Pub. The History Press, 2021.
• Newman, Ian. The Romantic Tavern. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• Shao, Qin. ‘Tempest over Teapots: The Vilification of Teahouse Culture in Early Republican China’. The Journal of Asian Studies 57, no. 4 (1998): 1009–41.
• Wang, Di. ‘The Idle and the Busy Teahouses and Public Life in Early Twentieth-Century Chengdu’. Journal of Urban History 26, no. 4 (5 January 2000): 411–37.
• Wang, Di. The Teahouse: Small Business, Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in Chengdu, 1900-1950. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008.
• Wang, Di. The Teahouse under Socialism: The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 1950–2000. Cornell University Press, 2018.
• Oldenburg, Ray. The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community. Hachette Books, 1999.
• Ashby, Charlotte, Tag Gronberg, and Simon Shaw-Miller. The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture. Berghahn Books, 2013. Ebook
• Cowan, Brian. The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse. Yale University Press, 2008. Ebook
• Ellis, Markman. The Coffee-House: A Cultural History. Hachette UK, 2011.
• Haine, W. Scott. The World of the Paris Café: Sociability Among the French Working Class, 1789-1914. JHU Press, 1998.
• Jolliffe, Lee ed. Coffee Culture, Destinations and Tourism. 2010. Ebook
• Hattox, Ralph S. Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East. University of Washington Press ed. Near Eastern Studies, University of Washington, no. 3. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988.
• Rittner, Leona, and W. Scott Haine. The Thinking Space: The Café as a Cultural Institution in Paris, Italy and Vienna. Routledge, 2016.
• White, Merry. Coffee Life in Japan. Univ of California Press, 2012. Ebook
• Spang, Rebecca L. The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture. Harvard University Press, 2001. Ebook

Week 6 - Spaces of Consumption

Required Reading

Aso, Noriko, “Mitsukoshi: Consuming Places” Bodies and Structures 2.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History Online - Explore the pathways and conclusion.

Kerrie L. MacPherson ed. Asian Department Stores Ch 6 The Birth of the Japanese Department Store (Teams)

Choi, Hyaeweol. New Women in Colonial Korea: A Sourcebook. Routledge, 2012. Cartoons pp81-93. (Teams)

Lizzy van Leeuwen, Lost in Mall: An Ethnography of Middle-Class Jakarta in the 1990s (2011). Ebook Ch 4 Celebrating Civil Society in the Shopping Malls

Elective Reading

• 1. Ruoff, Kenneth J. Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire’s 2,600th Anniversary (2010) Ebook
     
  • Ch 2 Mass Participation and Mass Consumption Department Store Exhibitions pp74-79
    
  • Dutiful Consumption and Reactionary Modernism pp79-81
• 2. Lewis, Su Lin. Cities in Motion: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920–1940 (2016) Ebook
  • Ch 2 Asian Port-Cities in a Turbulent Age pp47-94 Markets, Street Food and Amusements pp65-71
• 3. Freedman, Alisa et al Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan Ebook
  • Ch 2 Moving Up and Out: The “Shop Girl” in Interwar Japan pp21-40
    
  • Ch 3 Elevator Girls Moving In and Out of the Box pp41-66
• 4. Kerrie L. MacPherson ed. Asian Department Stores Introduction, Ch 7-8.
• 5. Madeleine Yue Dong, Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories (University of California Press, 2003). Ch 5 Consumption: Spatial and Temporal Hierarchies pp142-171 Ebook
• 6. Kim, Jina E. Urban Modernities in Colonial Korea and Taiwan Ch 3 Consuming Modernity: Department Stores and Modernist Fiction Ebook
• 7. Cochran, Sherman, ed. Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900–1945 (1999). Ch 1 Selling Goods and Promoting a New Commercial Culture: The Four Premier Department Stores on Nanjing Road, 1917-1937 pp19-36
• 8. Gordon, Andrew. Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan. London: University of California Press, 2011. Ebook Ch 3 and Ch 7
• 1. Cwiertka, Katarzyna J., and Ewa Machotka, eds. Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan: A Transdisciplinary Perspective. De Gruyter: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. Open Access JSTOR Introduction pp15-30 and Konbini-Nation pp69-88
• 10. Sato, Barbara Hamill. The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan. Durham, [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 2003. Ebook Ch 1 The Emergence of Agency:Women and Consumerism and Ch 2 The Modern Girl as a Representation of Consumer Culture

Further Reading:

• Silverberg, Miriam Rom Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times (University of California Press, 2009), chapter “Asakusa Eroticism” Ebook
• Kim, Jina E. Urban Modernities in Colonial Korea and Taiwan. BRILL, 2019.
• Miller, Laura, Jan Bardsley, eds. Bad Girls of Japan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Ebook
• Gardner, William O. Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920s. Harvard University Asia Center, 2006.
• Stalker, Nancy K. Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity. Oxford University Press, 2018. Ebook
• The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity and Globalization, 2008. Ebook
• Crossick, Geoffrey, and Serge Jaumain. Cathedrals of Consumption: The European Department Store, 1850-1939. Ashgate, 1999. Ebook
• MacPherson, Kerrie L. Asian Department Stores. Routledge, 2013.
• Miller, Michael B. The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869-1920. Princeton University Press, 2020.
• Rahman, Md Arifur. Japanese Retail Industry After the Bubble Economy: Development of the 100-Yen Shops. Singapore: Springer, 2022. Ebook
• Yeh, Wen-Hsin. Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949. University of California Press, 2008. Ebook
• Lerner, Paul. The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880-1940. De Gruyter: Cornell University Press, 2015. Ebook
• Rappaport, Erika. Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London’s West End. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Ebook
• Kirk, Nicole C. Wanamaker’s Temple: The Business of Religion in an Iconic Department Store. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2018. Ebook
• Howard, Vicki. From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store. De Gruyter: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Ebook
• Trentmann, Frank, ed. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
• Dower, John W., Anne Nishimura Morse, Jacqueline M. Atkins, and Frederic A. Sharf, eds. The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s. Boston: MFA Publications, 2012.
• Blaszczyk, Regina Lee, ed. Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers. De Gruyter: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Ebook
• Artley, Alexandra, ed. The Golden Age of Shop Design: European Shop Interiors, 1800-1939. London: Architectural Press, 1975.
• Belisle, Donica. Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada. UBC Press, 2011.
• Benson, Susan P., and Susan Porter Benson. Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940. University of Illinois Press, 1986.
• Iarocci, Dr Louisa. The Urban Department Store in America, 1850–1930. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2014.
• Jones, D. G. Brian, and Mark Tadajewski. The Routledge Companion to Marketing History. Routledge, 2016.
• Lancaster, Bill, and William Lancaster. The Department Store: A Social History. Leicester University Press, 1995.
• Lasc, Anca I., Patricia Lara-Betancourt, and Margaret Maile Petty. Architectures of Display: Department Stores and Modern Retail. Routledge, 2017.
• Laurenson, Helen Barbara. Going Up, Going Down: The Rise and Fall of the Department Store. Auckland University Press, 2005.
• Orr, Emily M. Designing the Department Store: Display and Retail at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
• Parker, Traci. Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s. UNC Press Books, 2019.
• Scanlon, Jennifer R., and Jennifer Scanlon. The Gender and Consumer Culture Reader. NYU Press, 2000.
• Stobart, Jon, and Vicki Howard. The Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing. Routledge, 2018.
• Usui, Kazuo. Marketing and Consumption in Modern Japan. Routledge, 2014.
• Whitaker, Jan. The Department Store: History, Design, Display. Thames & Hudson, 2011.

Week 7 - Messy Urbanism

Required Reading:

• Chalana, Manish, ed. Messy Urbanism: Understanding the “Other” Cities of Asia Ebook
  • Ch 1 Untangling the “Messy” Asian City
  • Ch 7 Little Manila: The Other Central of Hong Kong
• Simone, AbdouMaliq Jakarta: Drawing the City Near Ebook
  • Ch 3 Devising Relationships: Markets, Streets, Households, and Workshops but only: Undercurrents of Change, Working against Uncertainty, The Hodgepodge of the Urban Landscape, the Dynamics of Heterogeneity pp167-181
  • Ch 4 Endurance: Risking the Familiar but only: Look Both Ways Before you Cross the Street pp209-213; Endurance: Where to Put Things, Free Without a World pp227-236
• Chhabria, Sheetal Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay Introduction: Genealogies of the Urban Modern only pp3-25 (Teams)
• Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities
  • Ch 8 The Need for Mixed Primary Uses pp152-177 (Teams)
• Amin, Ash and Nigel Thrift Cities: Reimagining the Urban (Teams)
  • Ch 2 Propinquity and Flow in the City only pp31-36

Review: de Certeau “Walking the City”

Elective Reading:

• 1. Lees, Andrew Cities Perceived: Urban Society in European and American Thought, 1820-1940 Ch 2 Victorian Cities in the Eyes of the British + Ch 3 The City Observed by Continental Europeans (Library High Demand)
• 2. Williams, Raymond The Country and the City (Library) Ch 14 Change in the City + Ch 15 People of the City (Teams)
• 3. Colombijn, Freek and Joost Cote Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs: The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920-1960 Ebook Ch 8 From Autonomous Village to ‘Informal Slum’: Kampong Development and State Control in Bandung (1930-1960) pp193-211
• 5. Madeleine Yue Dong, Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories Ebook Ch 6 Recycling: The Tianqiao District pp172-210 + Ch 7 Sociology: Examining Urban Ills pp211-245
• 4. Wilson, Elizabeth The Sphinx in the City (Library) Ch 1 Into the Labyrinth + Ch 3 Cesspool City: London
• 6. Lu, Hanchao Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century Ch 3 Escaping the Shantytown + Ch 5 Behind Stone Portals Ebook
• 7. Victoir, Laura and Victor Zatsepine Harbin to Hanoi: The Colonial Built Environment, 1840 to 1940 Ebook Ch 10 Colonial Hanoi: Urban Space in Public Discourse
• 8. Marc Askew, Bangkok: Place, Practice and Representation Ch 5 Genealogy of the Slum: Pragmatism, Politics and Locality pp139-169 (Library)
• 1. Garrido, Marco Z. The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Ebook

Further Reading:

• Christian Henriot, ‘Slums, Squats or Hutments? Constructing and Deconstructing an in-Between Space in Modern Shanghai (1926-1965)’, Frontiers of History in China 7, no. 2 (2012): 499
• Amin, Ash and Nigel Thrift Seeing Like a City Ch 5 Frames of Poverty
• Meng Yue Shanghai and the Edges of Empires Ch 3: Urban Festivity as a Disruptive History
• Sennett, Richard The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities Ch 5 Exposure
• Yeoh Seng Guan, “Creolized Utopias: Squatter Colonies and the Post-Colonial City in Malaysia,” Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 16, no. 1 (April 1, 2001): 102–24.
• Freedman, Alisa Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road Ebook Ch 3 Shinjuku Station Sketches
• Ananya Roy and Nezar AlSayyad, eds., Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2004).
• Ashley Dawson, ‘Squatters, Space, and Belonging in the Underdeveloped City’, Social Text 22, no. 4 (2004): 17–34, DOI
• Sand, Jordan Tokyo Vernacular Ebook Ch 3 Deviant Properties: Street Observation Studies
• Cherry, Haydon. Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City

Week 8 - Urban Space, Order, and Politics

Task:

• SMPA Focus: Bring (or upload to teams if long) an SMPA document related to maintenance of urban order and be prepared to introduce it to the class.

Required Reading:

• Frederic Wakeman Jr., “Policing Modern Shanghai,” The China Quarterly, no. 115 (September 1, 1988): 408–40. JSTOR

• Isabella Jackson, “The Raj on Nanjing Road: Sikh Policemen in Treaty-Port Shanghai,” Modern Asian Studies 46, no. 06 (November 2012): 1672–1704 JSTOR

• Kristin Stapleton, Civilizing Chengdu: Chinese Urban Reform, 1895-1937 Open Access

  • Ch 3 The Key to Urban Reform: The New Police pp77-110,
  • Ch 4 The Winds of Progress: The Late Qing Urban Reform Agenda but only pp125-138 The Police Program

Elective Reading:

• 1. Lo, Sonny Shiu-Hing. The Politics of Policing in Greater China. Springer, 2016. “Policing in Hong Kong”, “Policing the Occupy Central Movement in Hong Kong” (P) Ebook
• 2. Frederic E. Wakeman, The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941, pp1-16, pp43-52, pp80-92 (P) Ebook
• 3. Fong, Leong Yee “Secret Societies and Policies in Colonial Malaya with Special Reference to the Ang Bin Hoey in Penang (1945-1952)” in Guan, Yeoh Seng et al. Penang and Its Region: The Story of an Asian Entrepôt (Library)
• 4. Chen, Ching-Chih. ‘Police and Community Control Systems in the Empire’. In The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945, edited by Mark R. Peattie, Jingzhi Zhen, and Ramon Hawley Myers, 213–39. Ebook
• 5. Miners, Norman. ‘The Localization of the Hong Kong Police Force, 1842–1947’. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 18, no. 3 (1 October 1990): 296–315.
• 6. Civilizing Chengdu Ch 6 After the Revolution: Soldiers, Sages, and Gowned Brothers pp181-216 and Ch 7 The City Administration Movement of the 1920s pp217-249
• 7. Jackson, Isabella Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China’s Global City Ch 3 Policing and Conflict in Shanghai Ebook
• 8. Abidin Kusno, The Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia Ebook
  • Ch 7 Urban Pedagogy: The Appearance of Order and Normality in Late Colonial Java, 1926-42 pp182-202

Further reading:

• Kristin Stapleton, ‘Urban Politics in an Age of “Secret Societies”: The Cases of Shanghai and Chengdu’, Republican China 22, no. 1 (1996): 23–63.
• Cole Roskam, Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937 (2019), Ch 1 “The Architecture of Extraterritoriality” Ebook
• Mendoza, Victor Román. Metroimperial Intimacies: Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913. Duke University Press, 2015. Ebook
• Jakarta: Drawing the City Near by Abdoumaliq Simone Ch 5 Inventive Policy: Integrating Residents into Running the City pp243-260 Ebook
• Abidin Kusno and Phillip Darby, After the New Order: Space, Politics, and Jakarta Ebook Ch 1 The Nation-State and the City Hall pp3-27
• Pieris, Anoma. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes: A Penal History of Singapore’s Plural Society Ebook
• Hamilton, Sheilah E. Watching Over Hong Kong: Private Policing 1841-1941. Hong Kong University Press, 2012. (P)
• Erik W. Esselstrom, “Rethinking the Colonial Conquest of Manchuria: The Japanese Consular Police in Jiandao, 1909-1937,” Modern Asian Studies 39, no. 1 (February 1, 2005): 39–75.
• Martin, Brian G. The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937. University of California Press, 1996. (P) Ebook

Week 9 - Migration and Ethnic Space

Task:

• SMPA Focus: Bring (or upload to teams if long) an SMPA document related to migration or on a particular ethnic group and be prepared to introduce it to the class.

Required Reading:

• Van Roy, Edward Siamese Melting Pot: Ethnic Minorities in the Making of Bangkok Ebook
  • Ch 1 Old Bangkok: An Ethnohistorical Overview
  • Ch 6 Taming the Dragon: Chinese Rivalries
• Goodman, Bryna Native, Place, City, and Nation: regional networks and identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937 Introduction, Ch 3-5. Ebook
• Honig, Emily. ‘The Politics of Prejudice: Subei People in Republican-Era Shanghai’. Modern China 15, no. 3 (1989): 243–74. JSTOR

Elective Reading:

• 1. Chatani, Sayaka. ‘Revisiting Korean Slums in Postwar Japan: Tongne and Hakkyo in the Zainichi Memoryscape’. The Journal of Asian Studies 80, no. 3 (August 2021): 587–610. DOI
• 2. Simone, Abdoumaliq Jakarta: Drawing the City Near Ch 2 The Urban Majority: Improvised Livelihoods in Mixed-up Districts pp83-119 (only first half of chapter) Ebook
• 3. Freek Colombijn, Under Construction: The Politics of Urban Space and Housing during the Decolonization of Indonesia, 1930-1960 Ch 2 Race, Class and Spatial Segregation pp71-102 (Library)
• 4. Dawley, Evan Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City 1880s-1950s Ch 2 “Love of City and Love of Self” Ch 7 “Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Re-creation of Jilong 1945-1955” (Library)
• 5. Han, Eric C. Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894-1972. Harvard East Asian Monographs 367. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. Introduction, Ch 3-5. Ebook
• 6. Li, Yi. Chinese in Colonial Burma: A Migrant Community in a Multiethnic State Ebook Introduction, “Merchants of the Empire” “The Rangoon Vice” “Making No Political ‘Noise’
• 7. Abidin Kusno and Phillip Darby, After the New Order: Space, Politics, and Jakarta Ch 2 The Shophouse and the Chinese pp28-48 + Ch 4 The Peasantry and the Periurban Fringe pp74-94 Ebook

Further Reading:

• Honig, Emily. Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850-1980. Yale University Press, 1992. Introduction, Ch 1-3
• Ryang, Sonia, and John Lie, eds. Diaspora without Homeland: Being Korean in Japan. 1st ed. University of California Press, 2009. Introduction, 1, 3-4 (P) Ebook
• Tim Bunnell, ‘Kampung Rules: Landscape and the Contested Government of Urban(e) Malayness’, Urban Studies 39, no. 9 (1 August 2002): 1685–1701
• Steve Hochstadt, ed., A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai Ebook
• Hon-Lun Helan Yang et al., Networking the Russian Diaspora: Russian Musicians and Musical Activities in Interwar Shanghai Ebook
• Home, Robert K. Of Planting and Planning: The Making of British Colonial Cities. Taylor & Francis, 1996. Ch 5 “Racial Segregation, Its Rise and Fall” Ebook
• Solomon, John. A Subaltern History of the Indian Diaspora in Singapore: The Gradual Disappearance of Untouchability 1872-1965 Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. Ebook
• Wakeman, Frederic E., and Wen-Hsin Yeh, eds. Shanghai Sojourners. Berkeley, Calif: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1992.
• Yee Tuan, Wong. Penang Chinese Commerce in the 19th Century: The Rise and Fall of the Big Five Ebook
• Michael Weiner, Japan’s Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity (London; New York: Routledge, 2009). (P)
• J. Carter, “Struggle for the Soul of a City: Nationalism, Imperialism, and Racial Tension in 1920s Harbin,” Modern China 27, no. 1 (January 1, 2001): 91–116
• Toby Lincoln, “Fleeing from Firestorms: Government, Cities, Native Place Associations and Refugees in the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance,” Urban History 38, no. Special Issue 03 (2011): 437–56
• Virunha Chuleeporn “From Regional Entrepôt to Malayan Port: Penang’s Trade and Trading Communities, 1890-1940” in Guan, Yeoh Seng et al. Penang and Its Region: The Story of an Asian Entrepôt
• Kawashima, Ken C. The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan. Duke University Press, 2009. (P) Ebook
• Christian Henriot, “Shanghai and the Experience of War. the Fate of Refugees,” European Journal of East Asian Studies 5, no. 2 (January 1, 2006): 215–45.
• Kratoska, Paul H. Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire: Unknown Histories. Armonk, N.Y: Sharpe, 2005.
• Lie, John. Multiethnic Japan. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2004. (P)
• O’Dwyer, Emer Sinéad. Significant Soil: Settler Colonialism and Japan’s Urban Empire in Manchuria. Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 377. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. (P)
• Uchida, Jun. “A Sentimental Journey: Mapping the Interior Frontier of Japanese Settlers in Colonial Korea.” The Journal of Asian Studies 70, no. 03 (August 2011): 706–29.
• Uchida, Jun. Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945. Harvard University Asia Center, 2011. (P) Ebook
• Uchida, Jun.. “The Public Sphere in Colonial Life: Residents’ Movements in Korea Under Japanese Rule.” Past & Present 220, no. 1 (August 1, 2013): 217–48. doi:10.1093/pastj/gtt002.
• Weiner, Michael. Race and Migration in Imperial Japan. Routledge Ebook
• Weiner, Michael. Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Modern Japan: Indigenous and Colonial Others. Taylor & Francis, 2004. (P)

Week 10 - Geomancy

This week will primarily focus on the spatial history and politics of fengshui/p’ungsu/fūsui in East Asia.

Primary Sources

Eitel, Ernest John. Feng Shui or the Rudiments of Natural Science in China (1873) IA Ch 1 Introductory 7 Conclusion

Edwin Joshua Dukes. Everyday Life in China: Or, Scenes Along River and Road in Fuh-Kien. Religious Tract Society, 1885. IA Ch VIII Feng-shui: The Biggest of All Bugbears pp145-159

In Class: London and China Telegraph v11 1869 June 7 p1-3 “Summary of News from the Far East - Tientsin (From a Correspondent)”

Required Reading:

Bruun, Ole An Introduction to Fengshui (2008) Ebook
Ch 2 “A Brief History of Feng Shui” pp11-14, pp31-48
Ch 3 “Feng Shui in the Context of Chinese Popular Religion” pp59-71
Ch 4 “Feng Shui Research” pp84-94

Wright, Arthur ‘The Cosmology of the Chinese City’ in G. William Skinner ed. The City in Late Imperial China (1977) Ebook

Sand, Jordan House and Home in Modern Japan (2005) Ch 8 “House Design and the Mass Market” pp262-287. Ebook

Yeoh, Brenda Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore Ch 8 The Control of ‘Sacred’ Space: Conflicts over the Chinese Burial Grounds pp281-311 Ebook

Han, Jung-san “Japan in the Public Culture of South Korea, 1945-2000s: The Making and Remaking of Colonial Sites and Memories” Japan Focus Link

Elective Reading:

1. Crump, Thomas Japanese Numbers Game: The Use and Understanding of Numbers in Modern Japan (2012) Ch 7 Time pp96-113 Ch 8 The Spatial World of Numbers pp114-125 Ebook

2. Lawrence Chua, Ronald G. Knapp, and Xing Ruan, Bangkok Utopia: Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, 1910–1973, (2021). Ch 2 A Historical and Cosmological Framework pp13-25. + Van Roy, Edward. ‘Rise and Fall of the Bangkok Mandala’. Journal of Asian History 45, no. 1/2 (2011): 85–118. Ebook

3. Hong-Key Yoon The Culture of Fengshui in Korea: An Exploration of East Asian Geomancy Ch 6 The Principles of House Geomancy Ch 9 The Cartography of Geomancy

4. Hong-Key Yoon The Culture of Fengshui in Korea: An Exploration of East Asian Geomancy Ch 12 The Use of Geomantic Ideas in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Cities Ch 13 Seoul: A New Dynasty’s Search for an Auspicious Site

5. Hong-Key Yoon The Culture of Fengshui in Korea: An Exploration of East Asian Geomancy Ch 14 The Social Construction of Kaesong Ch 15 Iconographic Warfare and the Geomantic Landscape of Seoul

6. Paton, Michael Five Classics of Fengshui: Chinese Spiritual Geography in Historical and Environmental Perspective - Preface, Introduction pp3-10; Ch 3 Review of the Literature

7. Ronald Knapp Chinese Landscapes: The Village as Place Ch 5 “Sheung Wo Hang Village, Hong Kong: A Village Shaped by Fengshui” pp79-94 + Madeddu, Manuela, and Xiaoqing Zhang. Feng Shui and the City: The Private and Public Spaces of Chinese Geomancy (2021) Ch 4 “Feng Shui in the Chinese Territories: Hong Kong” Ebook

8. Yon, Hong-Key ed. P’ungsu: A Study of Geomancy in Korea Ch 9 Geomancy and Traditional Architecture during the Chosŏn Dynasty, Ch 12 Geomantic Modification of Landforms: The Idea of Chosan Pibo

9. Bruun, Ole An Introduction to Fengshui (2008) Ebook Ch 5-7

10. Kim, Sun Joo, Marginality and Subversion in Korea: The Hong Kyongnae Rebellion of 1812 Ch 4 Prophecy and Popular Rebellion pp89-109 Ebook

11. McMahon, Daniel China’s Borderlands under the Qing, 1644–1912: Perspectives and Approaches Ch 4 Geomancy and Walled Fortifications on a Late Eighteenth Century Qing Borderland Ebook

12. Smith, Richard J. Fortune-Tellers And Philosophers: Divination In Traditional Chinese Society (1991), Introduction, pp1-12, Ch 4 The Ways of Wind and Water pp131-172. Ebook

Further Reading:

Boxer, Baruch. “Space, Change and Feng-Shui in Tsuen Wan’s Urbanization.” Journal of Asian and African Studies 3, no. 3–4 (January 1, 1968): 226–40. DOI.

Maurice Freedman, “Geomancy,” Proceedings of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1968)

Week 11 - Sacred Space

Elective Reading:

This week everyone should come having read two of the reading categories below. You do not need to prepare any handout.

• 1. Lewis, Su Lin Lewis Cities in Motion Ebook Ch 3 Cosmopolitan Publics in Divided Societies but only:
  • Cities of Multiple Faiths pp100-106
  • Fraternity and Respectability in the Colonial Era pp106-120
  • Globalising the Public Sphere pp120-127
  • Rotary Movement pp127-
• 2. Lily Kong and Brenda S. A. Yeoh, The Politics of Landscapes in Singapore: Constructions of ‘Nation’ (Library)
  • Ch 4 Making Space for the Dead in the Body of the Living “Nation”
  • Ch 5 For “Nation” for Religion? Harnessing Sacred Landscapes
• 3. Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China Ebook
  • Ch 9 Reading the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall in Peking: The Tribulations of the Implied Pilgrim pp378-419
• 4. Lawrence Chua, Ronald G. Knapp, and Xing Ruan, Bangkok Utopia: Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, 1910–1973. Ebook
  • Ch 3 Diagramming Utopian Nationalism: Nibbāna and the City of Willows p29-52
  • Ch 5 Planning Kammotopia: The Politics of Representation and the Funeral Pyre pp76-101
• 5. Dawley, Evan Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City 1880s-1950s Ch 4 “Sacred Spaces: Religions and the Construction of Identities”
• 6. Trais Pearson, Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-Colonial Siam Ch 2 Indemnity and Identity pp37-62 Ebook
• 7. Ruoff Imperial Japan at its Zenith Ebook Ch 5 Touring Manchuria’s Sacred Sites pp129-147

Further Reading:

• Daniel Benjamin Abramson, ‘Places for the Gods: Urban Planning as Orthopraxy and Heteropraxy in China’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 29, no. 1 (1 February 2011): 67–88, DOI
• Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs: The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920-1960 (BRILL, 2014). Ch 13 Chinese Cemeteries as a Symbol of Sacred Space: Control, Conflict and Negotiation in Surabaya, Indonesia pp323-339
• Ara Wilson, ‘The Sacred Geography of Bangkok’s Markets’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32, no. 3 (2008): 631–42, DOI
• Henriot, Christian. Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai. Stanford University Press, 2016.
• Trais Pearson, Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-Colonial Siam
• Kyung Moon Hwang, Rationalizing Korea: The Rise of the Modern State, 1894-1945, 2016. Ch 5 State and Religion: Securalization and Pluralism, 146-167
• Faure, Bernard. ‘Space and Place in Chinese Religious Traditions’. History of Religions 26, no. 4 (1987): 337–56.
• Goodwin, Janet R., and Joan R. Piggott. Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 2018. Ebook
• Laderman, Gary. Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America. Oxford University Press, 2003. Ebook
• Imaizumi, Yoshiko. Sacred Space in the Modern City: The Fractured Pasts of Meiji Shrine, 1912-1958. BRILL, 2013.
• Littleton, C. Scott. Shinto: Origins, Rituals, Festivals, Spirits, Sacred Places. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Orsi, Robert A. Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape. Indiana University Press, 1999. Ebook
• Robson, James. Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue) in Medieval China. Harvard University Asia Center, 2009. Ebook

Primary Sources on East and Southeast Asia

Below are a selection of potential starting points for primary sources relevant for historical research on East and Southeast Asia. Many of these are available through our library electronic resources. Others you can contact me about if you are having trouble finding them. Not all of these sources are in English and I have included some sources here for use by students who are able to read Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

SCONUL: St Andrews students may get a SCONUL card which allows them to access libraries elsewhere in Scotland, including the University of Edinburgh, which has a very extensive East Asia collection of books and resources.

Frog in a Well Primary Source Guides

See these guides on Frog in a Well for many useful resources:

• Primary Sources: Modern Korean History
• Primary Sources: History of Taiwan
• Primary Sources: Missionary Perspectives on China
• Primary Sources: History of Burma
• Primary Sources: History of the Malay World
• Primary Sources: History of the Philippines - Under construction
• Primary Sources: Cities of East and Southeast Asia - Under construction
• Historical Works on Japanese Gardens

Newspapers and Periodicals:

• East Asian Newspapers and Periodicals 1850-1950 - A very large collection of newspapers on the Internet Archive. Most in Chinese but also several important newspapers in Japanese, Korean, and English languages

• Southeast Asian Newspapers

• Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers

• Korea Times 1950-2016

• Korea Times - This is for 1998 to present.

• Chinese Newspaper Collection

• Historical Newspapers: Communist Historical Newspaper Collection

• South China Morning Post 1903-1941

• The Times

• Japan Chronicle

• 19th Century British Newspapers

• 19th Century British Periodicals

• British Periodicals I & II

• British Newspapers 1600-1950

• Historic American Newspapers

• Irish Times

• Los Angeles Times

• North China Herald - Also see Internet Archive

• Guardian & Observer

• Periodical Archives Online

• Times of India

• Economist 1843-2010

• Scotsman

• HeinOnline - Legal Journals

• Biblioteca Gino Bianco (Italian)

• Leo Baeck Institute Library Periodical Collection (mostly German)

  • Shanghai Jewish Chronicle (1939-1945), Shanghai Echo (1946-1948), Shanghai Woche (1939, 1942), Sport (1942-1943), Shanghaier Morgenpost (1941), S. Z. am Mittag der Shanghai Post (1939-1940), Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt, Acht Uhr Abendblatt (1939-1941), Mitteilungen der Vereinigung der Emigranten-Ärzte in Shanghai (1940-1), Gelbe Post: Ostasiatisch Halbmonatsschrift (1939-40)

• Newsvault

  • Combines some of the Databases above

• Old Hong Kong Collections and Newspapers

  • Here you may want to check: Hong Kong Collection, Old HK Newspapers, Hong Kong Oral History (you can filter by language)

• Singapore Newspaper Archive 1831-2009

  • Large collection of newspapers, but not all viewable off site.
  • Syonan Shimbun (1942-1945), The Straits Times (1845-2018), Malaya Tribune (1914-1951), The Singapore Free Pressand Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), The Singapore Free Press, Morning Tribune (1936-1949), 南洋商报 (1923-1983), Indian Daily Mail (1946-1956), The Daily Advertiser (1890-1894)
    

• XXth Century 1941-1945

  • unusual magazine from Japanese occupied Shanghai

• Australian Historical Newspaper Archive

• 明六雑誌 1874-5

  • Digitized version of the famous Meiji period journal (Japanese)

• 国民之友 1887-8

• 満州技術協会誌

  • Journal of Manchuria Technical Association journal 1925-1941
  • Digitized version of “The Nation’s Friend” (Japanese).

• Chinese Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period (Chinese)

• Xiaobao - Chinese Entertainment Newspapers (Chinese)

• Funü Zazhi - Chinese women’s magazine (Chinese)

• Ling Long Magazine (Chinese)

• Korean Historical Newspapers (Korean)

• PRCHistory.org Archive of Journals Remembrance and Yesterday

• 奈良女子大学所蔵資料電子画像集

  • Digital collection of historical journals and other materials related to women’s university education in Japan. (Japanese)

• Puka Puka Parade

  • Post 1945 Newsletter of 100th Infantry Battalion of Japanese-American veterans

• Japan Times 1998-

• Press Translations, Japan 1945-1946

• Kobe University Newspaper Clippings Archive (Japanese)

• Hsinhua News Agency 1977-Present (Nexis UK)

Government Documents

• Wilson Center Digital Archive
  • Massive collection of Cold War period documents, many of them translated and transcribed
• Wilson Center Chinese Foreign Policy Database
• Foreign Office Files for China 1919-1980
• Foreign Office Files for Japan 1919-1952
• British Documents on the End of Empire
• Cabinet Papers 1915-1984
• Parliamentary Papers
• FRUS - Foreign Relations of the US
• US Occupation Government in Korea Documents
  • The index is in Korean, but the language of the documents is English
• Japanese Diet Proceedings Archive (Japanese)
• 日本外交文書デジタルアーカイブ
• 帝国議会会議録
• 朝鮮王朝實錄
• Truman Library Documents on Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
• The Gazette (British Government newspaper)
• Office of Strategic Services - United States intelligence agency formed during World War II, predecessor to CIA. Archive.org collection contains many East Asia related documents.
• National Security Internet Archive (NSIA) - Archive.org collection of documents related to US government documents, includes many East Asia related documents.
• Digital South Asia Library
• National Archives of Singapore ArchivesOnline - online collections include government records, maps, oral histories, photographs, and legal documents
  • Includes many oral interviews of former POWs in the Changi Military Camp
• CIA National Intelligence Estimates on China
• Tokyo War Crimes Trial Digital Collection
• LTD Legal Tools Database - Tokyo Trials Documents
• IMFTE Judgement transcript
• League of Nations Archives
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online - Asia and the West
  • U.S. State Department Consular and Diplomatic Records - despatches from many US consuls in region
  • British Foreign Office Political Correspondence: Japan
  • Korean, Siamese, Japanese and Chinese legations in the United States
  • Missionary Correspondence and Journals
• Annual Report of the Minister of State for Education - Japanese education ministry reports volumes often on Archive.org
• Japan in the Beginning of the 20th Century - Government reports available in several volumes on Archive.org
• An Official Guide to Eastern Asia - Five volumes. Japanese railroads office produced guides going back to early 20th century. Volumes available on Archive.org
• Annual report on reforms and progress in Chosen - Japanese colonial reports on Korea 1911-1923. Search for this title on HeinOnline, some years available on Archive.org.
• Annual Reports to the League of Nations on the Administration of the South Sea Islands under Japanese Mandate - Japanese reports to the League on its rule over former German controlled territories in the Pacific. Many volumes of these reports available on Archive.org but the titles are not accurately produced, search for Annual Reports, League, Micronesia, etc. to get more hits.
• Burma, The Struggle for Independence, 1944-1948: Documents from Official and Private Sources
  • Many British documents on Burma from this time
• Towards Freedom: Documents on the Movement for Independence in India, 1943-1944
  • Many documents on India from this time
• The Transfer of Power 1942-7
  • Many British documents on India from this time

Missionary Reports and Publications

• Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal - Many issues available at Archive.org
• Missionary Research Library pamphlets Columbia University - digitized pamphlets available on Archive.org with many East Asia related pamphlets
• Majority World Collection - Publications include many missionary works related to East Asia from Princeton Theological Seminary Library.
• The Christian Movement in the Japanese Empire including Korea and Formosa - Many volumes published by the Conference of Federated Missions Japan, and often available on Archive.org.
• The Japan Christian Yearbook - Volumes available on Archive.org
• Presbyterian Church of England : report of the Foreign Missions China, Formosa, the Straits Settlements, and India - Many volumes on Archive.org
• China and Formosa : the story of the Presbyterian Church of England (1897)

Memoirs, Diaries, Digitised Books etc.

• Archive.org - Huge and fantastic resource for published works before 1920s
• Google Books - If there is only snippet view on old works, try archive.org
• Gutenberg Project - Pure text versions of many popular out of copyright books
• Hathi Trust
  • massive collection of digitized books
  • when they cannot be viewed because they are in copyright, they can still help you pin point which pages things are mentioned
• Historical Texts
  • Especially the British Library digitised books 1789-1914
• Robert Hart Diaries
  • http://digitalcollections.qub.ac.uk/site/hart-diaries/diaries/show_vol.php?v=31
  • http://gis.rchss.sinica.edu.tw/cmcs/collections-at-academia-sinica/the-diaries-of-sir-robert-hart
  • http://cdm15979.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15979coll2
• Joseph Berry Keenan Digital Collection - Important primary sources from war crimes trials and early postwar Japan.
• Ming Qing Women’s Writings
  • Digitised Chinese works by women from Ming and Qing dynasties (Chinese)
• National Taiwan University Open Access Books (Chinese)
• Diary of Joseph Stilwell 1900-1946
• World War II Diaries of Ernest F. Easterbrook, 1944–45
• Hawaii Karate Museum Collection
  • PDFs of books in English, Japanese, and Korean on Karate and martial arts, mostly 1950s.
• Gallica (French)
  • National Library of France has digitised a huge amount of materials, including a wide range of materials, memoirs, books, images, related to East Asia and Indochina.

Propaganda, Posters, and Pamphlets

• Chinese Propaganda Poster Collection
• Chinese Pamphlets
  • from early People’s Republic of China - browse by subject, may not show all pamphlets in browse mode
• Korean War Propaganda Leaflets
• Korean War Propaganda Digial Horizons
• Scanned propaganda at the US Naval Academy Nimitz Library:
  • American Propaganda in Japan
  • Japanese Propaganda in the Philippines

Photographs, Postcards, Films

• Showa Period Photo Archive from Shashin Shūhō 1938-1944(Japanese)
• National Archives UK on Flickr
• US National Archives on Flickr
• New York Public Library Digital Collections
• Boston Museum of Fine Arts Image Collection
• Mainichi Photo Bank
  • You can search the archive of photos from the Mainichi newspaper and see relatively small watermarked images
• Memories of Metropolis - Tokyo - Japanese (and some English), mostly photographs from various sources on the history of Tokyo. OA.
• Joseph Needham Photographs - Wartime China, 1942-1946
• Historical Chinese Postcard Project: 1896-1920
• Historical Photographs of China
• Sidney D. Gamble’s Photographs of China 1908-1932
• UW-Madison East Asian Collection Photograph Collection
• Shackford Collection of Photographs of China
• Francis E. Stafford photographs of China 1909-1933
• Visualising China 1850-1950
• Hoover Institution Political Poster Database
• Lafayette College East Asian Postcard Collections
• MIT Visualising Cultures
• Formosa Nineteenth Century Images
• Sydney Gamble Photographs of China and Japan
• Japanese Photographs from Late-Tokugawa and Meiji period
• UW Milwaukee Asia and Middle East Photos from American Geographical Society
• An American GI in Japan, Autumn 1945: A Photographic Memoir
• Philippine Photographs Digital Archive
• The United States and its Territories 1870-1925 photographic collections
• Vintage Formosa
  • some 7000 photos of historical Taiwan
• Hedda Morrison Photographs of China
• Dutch East Indies in Photographs, 1860-1940
• Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia
• Colonial Film Database of the British Empire
• British Pathe Historical Footage
• Everyday in Mao’s China - Use these photographs with care and note the source.
• Korean Movie Database
  • Often with English subtitles
  • Includes full length Korean historical movies from earlier decades
  • see more at http://www.kmdb.or.kr/

Recordings and Sound

• 1900-1950 Japanese Sound Archive (Japanese)
• NHK Japanese Oral History Testimony Archive (Japanese)
  • Also contains historical news clips and other footage

Maps and GIS

• David Rumsey Map Library
• Japanese Historical Maps - David Rumsey
• Visual Cultures in Asia - Maps
• Old Maps Online
• University of Texas Perry-Casteñada Map Archive
  • contains a lot of WWII military maps of Asia
• Virtual Shanghai Map Collection
• 東洋文庫 中華帝国図等
  • Historical maps of China in the Oriental library
• USC Asian Map Collection
• ChinaX Map
  • Amazing collection of GIS layers related to Chinese history
• Disaster of Japan’s 2011 Disasters
• Japan Map
  • Collection of GIS layers related to Japan’s 2011 Disasters
• WorldMap
  • Many GIS layers and maps are available to browse and sometimes download here
• China Historical GIS
  • can download shapefiles for creating historical maps of China
• Collection of Colonial Period Maps of Taipei and more maps from Academia Sinica Map Club

Old Books Related to East and Southeast Asian Region

• The War in the East by Trumbull White (1895)
• Travels in the Far East by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (1909)

Other

• Voices of Civil Internment: WWII Singapore - The Royal Commonwealth Society Collection at Cambridge University Library has digitised the archives of two Second World War civilian internment camps
• Public Library of India - Archive.org hosted collection of scanned materials, includes many scanned books related to East Asia
• Digital Bodleian
• Atlas of Mutual Heritage
  • Good archive of documents, maps, and images from the Dutch East India Company and the West-Indische Compagnie
  • Digitised books in Harvard-Yenching from 1860s-1940s
• Digital Vatican Library
• California Digital Library - Many scanned historical works related to East Asia, hosted by Archive.org.

Japan

• Selection of Scanned Open Access Harvard-Yenching Books from Japan on Google Books
• Japan Air Raids Bilingual Historical Archive
• Databases of the Historiographical Institute at the University of Tokyo - Most of it on pre-modern Japanese history
• Waseda Kotenseki Sogo Database - Contains a lot of materials related to Japanese and Chinese classics but also some special collections from a more modern period, much in Japanese
  • Modern Japan and Waseda
  • Japanese History through the Library Collections
  • Edo-Period Japanese Literature Collection
  • Western Studies Collection
  • Okuma Shigenobu Collection
• Prange Digital Children’s Book Collection 1945-49 (Japanese)
• Joseph B. Keenan Digital Collection
• Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Digital Archive
• Hiroshima Archive
• PRCHistory.org Document of the Month
• Illustrated Books from the Edo and Meiji Periods - at the Smithsonian Libraries
• Japanese National Diet Library (Japanese)
  • has a variety of digital resources
• National Archives of Japan Digital Collections
• Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (Japanese)
  • Massive archive of especially military records from pre-1945 Japan
• Digital Library of the Meiji Period (Japanese)
  • pretty much every book published in the Meiji period is digitized here, Taisho period books increasingly available too
• Denshō Archive for Japanese-American internment
• Japanese Historical Text Initiative
• Japan Air Raids Historical Archive
• ジャパンアーカイブズ1850-2100
• Exhibition of the Empire of Japan: Official Catalogue (1904)
• A Handbook for Travellers in Japan Basil Hall Chamberlain - volumes from different years on Archive.org
• Terry’s Japanese empire, including Korea and Formosa, with chapters on Manchuria, the Trans-Siberian railway, and the chief ocean routes to Japan - various editions available on Archive.org
• Pocket Guide to Japan - Old prewar government produced guidebook for tourists to Japan, volumes available on Archive.org
• Japan to America - collection of papers and translations on Japan produced by the Japan Society of America going back to early 20th century. Many volumes on Archive.org
• Transactions of The Asiatic Society of Japan - early journal published in Japan going back to prewar days. Many volumes on Archive.org
• Satow, Ernest Mason. A Diplomat in Japan: An Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1983.
• Cortazzi, Hugh. Victorians in Japan: In and around the Treaty Ports. London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Athlone Press, 1987.
• Holme, Charles, Toni Huberman, Sonia Ashmore, Emma Lasenby Liberty, and Yasuko Suga. The Diary of Charles Holme’s 1889 Visit to Japan and Northamerica: With Mrs Lazenby Liberty’s Japan: A Pictorial Record. Folkestone, UK: Global Oriental Ltd, 2008.
• Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird
• Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward Sylvester Morse (1885)
• Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series by Lafcadio Hearn
• Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn (1895)
• Kimiko, and Other Japanese Sketches by Lafcadio Hearn (1896)
• Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life by Lafcadio Hearn (1896)
• My Japanese Wife by Clive Holland (1895)
• The Gist of Japan: The Islands, Their People, and Missions by R. B. Peery
• Japanese Girls and Women by Alice Mabel Bacon (1891)
• Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for the Use of Travellers and Others by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1902)
• Kobo: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang (1905)
• A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist by Marie Stopes (1910)
• The Shinto Cult: A Christian Study of the Ancient Religion of Japan by Milton Terry (1910)
• A Daughter of Japan by F. D. Bone (1914) - also on GP
• An Artist’s Letters from Japan by John La Farge
• The Japanese Spirit by Yoshisaburo Okakura (1905) also GP
• Heisig, James W., Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo, eds. Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook. Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011.
• This is a wonderful series of volumes in our library containing books on Japan, thus serving as contemporary primary sources of a sort, and a separate series of books with pamphlets and press articles from 1906-1948:
  • O’Connor, Peter, ed. Critical Readings on Japan, 1906-1948: Countering Japan’s Agenda in East Asia. Series 1, Books ; a Collection in Ten Volumes. Folkestone, Kent : Tokyo, Japan: Global Orient ; Edition Synapse, 2008.
  • O’Connor, Peter, ed. Critical Readings on Japan, 1906-1948: Countering Japan’s Agenda and the Communist Menace in East Asia. Series 2, Pamphlets and Press: A Collection in 10 Volumes. Folkestone, Kent : Tokyo: Global Oriental ; Edition Synapse, 2011.
• Pocket Guide to Japan (1926)
• Pocket Guide to Japan (1935)

Korea

• Korean National Archives (Korean)
  • some documents can only be viewed within Korean libraries
• Korean History Digital Archive (Korean)
  • a massive variety of historical sources can be found here
• 1945-50 Korean Literary Collection (Korean) Univ. Washington
• Histopia (Korean)
  • Collection of digitized historical Korean sources
• Korean American Digital Archive
• Korean Independence Outbreak Movement Online Exhibit
• Japanese Wartime Policy in Korea Digital Archive (Korean/Japanese)
• Korean Literary Collection Digital Archive 1945-1950
  • Some rare books in Korean from the early postwar period digitised by the University of Washington
• Foreign Broadcast Information Service 1974-1996
  • search SAULCAT
• Prospectus of the Oriental Development Company - colonial period land development and expropriation company.
• Japanese Atrocities in Korea: reports emphasized and made convincing by Japanese propaganda (1919)
• Fifteen Years Among the Top-Knots; Or, Life in Korea (1908)
• Corea or Cho-sen: The Land of the Morning Calm by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1895)
• Our Little Korean Cousin by H. Lee M. Pike (1905)
• Korea’s Fight for Freedom by Fred A. McKenzie (1920)
• Quaint Korea by Louise Jordan Miln (1895)
• The Case of Korea: A Collection of Evidence on the Japanese Domination of Korea by Henry Chung (1921)

Taiwan

• Taiwan Postwar National Historical Archive (Chinese)
• National Taiwan University Digital Projects Home (Chinese)
• Taiwan History Digital Library (Chinese)
• Taiwan National Repository of Cultural Heritage (Chinese)
• Taiwan Colonial Court Records (Chinese/Japanese)
  • requires online application for access
• Taiwan Database for Empirical Legal Studies (Chinese)
• Digital Repository of Taiwan Provincial Assembly (Chinese)
  • requires online application for access
• National Taiwan University Taiwan Historical Photo Archive (Chinese)
• National Taiwan University Institutional Repository (Chinese)
  • historical records related to NTU
  • chief prosecutor in the Tokyo war crimes trials
• Japanese Rule in Formosa by Yosaburo Takekoshi (1907)
• From far Formosa the island: The island, its people and missions George Mackay (1896)
• Glimpses of Japan and Formosa by Harry A. Franck
• The island of Formosa : historical view from 1430 to 1900: history, people, resources and commercial prospects James Davidson (1903)
• The Statistical Summary of Taiwan Japanese Government General in Japan.
• Sketches from Formosa by W. Campbell (1915)
• Among the head-hunters of Formosa by Janet McGovern (1922) - raw text on Project Gutenberg
• The call of the East; a romance of far Formosa by James Davidson (1902) also on PG by Thurlow Fraser
• Formosa Today: An Analysis of the Economic Development and Strategic Importance of Japan’s Tropical Colony Andrew J. Grajdanzev (1943)
• Fireproof moth : a missionary in Taiwan’s white terror (in library)
• The heathen heart : an account of the reception of the gospel among the Chinese of Formosa by Campbell N. Moody (1907)
• The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa (1912)

China

• Chinese Cultural Revolution Database
• Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign Database
• Chinese maritime digitization project
• Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique / Asian Digital Library - many digitized materials from Asia, especially China
  • Shanghai Municipal Council Minutes
  • Scanned Books - over a thousand volumes here, mostly related to China
• Harvard Yenching Library Chinese Republican Period 1911-1949 digitization project - Chinese books digitized by Harvard-Yenching library.
• The Cultural Revolution in Images: Caricature-Posters from Guangzhou 1966-1977
• Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection
• Chinese Digital Archive 1966-1976
  • much of it in Chinese
• Virtual Shanghai
• Chinese Text Project
  • Collection of classical Chinese texts with translations
• Heidelberg University China Digital Archive
  • need to apply for an account to access, application online
• Chinese Civilization in Time and Space
• Hiroshima Archive
• International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online
• Yale Nanjing Massacre Archival Project
• Ailing Zhang (Eileen Chang) Papers at USC
• Three Years’ Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China by Robert Fortune (1847)
• Memoirs of Father Ripa, during thirteen years’ residence at the court of Peking in the service of the emperor of China; with an account of the foundation of the college for the education of young Chinese at Naples (1849)
• China and the Chinese by Herbert Allen Giles (1902)
• A Tale of Red Pekin by Constancia Serjeant (1902)
• With the Allies to Pekin: A Tale of the Relief of the Legations by G. A. Henty (1904)
• New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening by Arthur Judson Brown (1904)
• Lion and Dragon in Northern China by Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (1910)
• Notable Women of Modern China by Margaret E. Burton (1912)
• A Woman In China by Mary Gaunt (1914)
• The Fight for the Republic in China by B. L. Putnam Weale (1917)
• Peking Dust by Ellen N. La Motte (1919) also on PG
• Kuo Sung-t’ao, Liu Hsi-hung, Chang Te-yi, and John David Frodsham, eds. The First Chinese Embassy to the West: The Journals of Kuo Sung-T’ao, Liu Hsi-Hung and Chang Te-Yi. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
• The works of Mao Zedong: When citing his writings avoid the occasionally problematic online marxists.org version and use the series collection of his works found in the library: Mao, Tse-tung, and Stuart R. Schram. Mao’s Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-1949 Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992.

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Government Reports Online 1842-1941
• Hong Kong and the West Until 1860 - database of historical sources, over 400 volumes and hundreds of images.
• Hong Kong Image Database
• Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials Collection

Southeast Asia

• The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Comyn, Jagor, Virchow, and Wilkes (1912)
• Inside Indonesia - bulletin of the Indonesia Resources and Information Programme, Australia, 1983-2007
• Online Burma/Myanmar Library - archive of relatively recent digital documents, and portal to more resources
• LawPhil Philippine Laws and Jurisprudence - Massive legal database for the Philippines with court rulings and case info on thousands of cases from recent Philippine history
• Philippine Diary Project - Collection of digitised diaries from Filipinos from the past two centuries
• Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War
• Southeast Asia Digital Library
• SouthEast Asian Images & Texts
• Southeast Asia Visions - European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia
• Ohio University Thai Sources on Internet Archive (Thai)
• Cornell Modern Indonesia Collection
• Batavia Digital
• OneSearch Indonesia
• ASEAN Digital Library
• UMass Southeast Asia Digital Archive
• Elibrary of Cambodia
• Cornell University Guides:
  • List of US Government Documents on Southeast Asia - some of these may be available in nearby libraries or on microfilm by interlibrary loan
  • List of British Government Documents on Southeast Asia - some of these may be available in nearby libraries or on microfilm by interlibrary loan
  • Some General Historical Sources on Southeast Asia
  • Colonial Era Sources on Southeast Asia
  • Travel Literature on Southeast Asia

See Me

• Some of these databases may be accessible in Edinburgh or elsewhere. Please see me for more information:

• Shanghai Municipal Police Archives

• US State Department Records on Japan

• US Intelligence Files on East Asia (mostly post-WWII)

• Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal - missionary journal from China

• 申報 (Chinese newspaper Shanghai)

• 人民日报 (Communist newspaper)

• 台湾日日新聞 (Taiwanese colonial newspaper in Japanese)

• 京城日報 (Korean colonial newspaper in Japanese)

• 朝鮮日報 (Korean newspaper)

• 東亞日報 (Korean newspaper)

• 民報 (Taiwan newspaper, early postwar)

Some Key Secondary Source Databases

• CiNii Japanese Article Database - the “Google Scholar” of Japan. Often has links to PDFs of Japanese language scholarship

Some Good LibGuides and Link Collections for East Asia Related Sources

• These will include links to many resources available only to students of that university

• Harvard Korea Research Guide

• Harvard Japan Research Guide

• Harvard China Research Guide

• U of California Berkely East Asia Research Guide

• University of Washington East Asia Guide

• Yale China English Sources Research Guide

• Yale China Research Guide

• Yale Japan Research Guide

• Yale Korea Research Guide

• 国立国会図書館アジア情報の調べ方案内

• AsiaPortal

• Please get in touch if you find that this list contains any dead links, or you wish to suggest an addition