Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 35 Search Results for
expo
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 669–676.
Published: 01 August 2010
... consumerism, perfectly suited to the Chinese state's own celebration of the successes of a reform economy. Even more fantastic scenes can be found this summer just south of the Bund at the celebrated grounds of Expo 2010 , which runs from May through October of this year. China's state officials and expo...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 677–681.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Kalyani Menon-Sen Abstract If Shanghai has the World Expo 2010, Delhi has the Commonwealth Games 2010. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 If Shanghai has the World Expo 2010, Delhi has the Commonwealth Games 2010. For the last two years, a huge digital clock...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 683–685.
Published: 01 August 2010
... in a hardware-software gulf, and here again, the divergent experiences of the Shanghai expo/Olympics and the Commonwealth Games are germane. India's continued inability to impress with stadia, roads, and other infrastructure point to both its weaknesses and strengths. Its growth can never take off...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 665–668.
Published: 01 August 2010
... argues that we are dealing here with murder rather than suicide—and in part a study of the interplay of fantasy and nationalism. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Top: The 2010 World Expo Shanghai Construction Site Photo by Gilles Sabrie in the Viking Penguin book...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 319–331.
Published: 01 May 2012
... Treaty. It continued throughout Japan's postwar history, becoming ever stronger, and penetrating ever deeper into Japanese society. The high-growth era of the 1960s and the celebration of its pinnacle in the Osaka Expo of 1970 were two instances of this system of power reaching criticality within...
Journal Article
The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction
Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 483–485.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Imagination lies in its lucidly drawn single thread—the genealogy of futuristic enterprises from the 1960s onward—through Metabolist architecture, Komatsu Sakyō's science fiction novels, the Osaka Expo, and later engagements with the group's legacy in popular cultural productions. Shaded by the dominance...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1159–1161.
Published: 01 November 2021
... nations to hold world expos. But past predictions that world's fairs were cultural dinosaurs have proved incorrect, and I suspect the medium will gain new life (for better and worse) as it expands into the Middle East (Dubai is the next world's fair host city) and across Asia as the next phase...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (4): 766–768.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... The book covers a lot of ground by paying close attention to the air. Chapter 1 begins with Nakaya Fujiko's fog sculpture designed for Osaka's Expo 70 (an event that serves as a through line for most of the book). Furuhata contends that Nakaya's sculpture “links the history of art to the history...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 899–920.
Published: 01 November 2014
... in Osnos 2009b ) Rather than being negative in the sense of protesting against either the Kadeer film or China's censorship of it, Jia focuses on doing his own work in a positive way—including preparations for the film he made for the Shanghai Expo 2010, I Wish I Knew (海上传奇, analyzed below...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1167–1169.
Published: 01 November 2007
... artists that foregrounded the materiality of objects in the late 1960s) receive detailed attention as representing the pinnacle of postwar Japanese avant-garde art. The book concludes with a discussion of Osaka's Expo ’70, a celebration of Japan's economic success engineered by bureaucrats...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 732–734.
Published: 01 August 2021
... possibilities for social mobility that do not exist in their nondigital lives. Chapter 6 draws on memes, internet slang, and Szablewicz's on-site observations at China Joy, a well-known digital entertainment expo in China, to address how gamers challenge the heteronormative definitions of success, ideal...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 183–185.
Published: 01 February 2020
... corruption and abuse, and they undermined the power of its “ethnically constructed discourse on Chineseness” (p. 172). In the epilogue, Xia makes a familiar observation that the Nationalist government “mishandled the hanjian issue” and “appeared inefficient, incompetent, and unethical,… expos[ing...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 261–262.
Published: 01 February 2002
..., of the previous year, which rises between the Imperial Palace and Tokyo Station and is one of the more distinctive of the capital's early (and now, seemingly small-scale) large buildings. Maybe for his project for the Japan Pavilion at the Paris Expo of 1937, with its dramatic night perspective with the lit-up...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 478–481.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and renovate Japan's image on the global stage. At such events as the 1970 Osaka Expo and the 1964–65 New York World's Fair, the shinkansen was tapped as a potent symbol of the “new Japan.” Yet this was a somewhat risky strategy, as American reluctance to accept Japan into the fellowship of global leaders...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1093–1095.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... In her persuasive close readings of magazines, books, television programs, films, videos, promotional pamphlets, posters, websites, tour planning and promotion, expos, and more, she argues that notions of risk containment, crisis management, disaster recovery, and national resilience are being configured...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (2): 408–410.
Published: 01 February 1986
.... Is the focus, then, on national history as mirrored in these lives? Neither the crash of 1929 nor the recovery of the mid-1950s is mentioned; on the other hand, some of the postwar events that are described, such as Expo '70 and the Tokyo Olympics, do not seem to have touched these people. When lives and great...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 903–915.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Democracy” ( Da Zhonghua minzhuguo 大中华民主国). 5 The novel opens with the citizens of Great Chinese Democracy having invited a seventy-second-generation descendant of Confucius to deliver a lecture at the Shanghai World Expo on how Chinese democracy has been implemented in the country. The lecture...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 493–516.
Published: 01 May 2014
... viewed as a barometer for a nation's current progress and prestige. However, as Susan Fernsebner reminded readers in her article “Expo 2010: A Historical Perspective,” reflecting upon the 1910 Nanyang Exposition in the wake of Expo 2010 in Shanghai, expositions can offer a more complex story—in China's...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 681–688.
Published: 01 August 2009
... fetishization of young prepubescent girls by older men known as rorikon , “Lolita complex”), Harajuku (youth center in Tokyo), and schoolgirls-in-uniform fashions. Their debut performances included the Japan Festa in Bangkok in March 2009 and the Japan Expo in Paris in July 2009. Clearly, the Japanese...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 31 (1): 49–56.
Published: 01 November 1971
... attempts at "enhancing the international prestige and standing of the country" as the Tokyo Olympics (1964) and the Osaka Expo (1970). In the second place, the people have exhibited a marked tendency to improve their living standards through their individual efforts rather than trying to seek public...
1
