...James Farrer The MIT Visualizing Cultures controversy is linked to a series of anti-Japanese street protests in China during the previous year. As a comparative analysis of these two very different types of protests, this article produces a reading of protest through a series of linked contexts...

...William A. Callahan This essay examines how the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) controversy hardened identities in terms of the time-worn template of geopolitical conflict of national stereotypes. It critically analyzes the Chinese students' response to the Visualizing Cultures project...

... Asian The Social in Media: Race, History, and the Visualizing Cultures Controversy at MIT Ian Condry A phone ringing nonstop — that is a vivid recollection of mine from the Visualizing Cultures controversy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol...

... – 6 MIT CSSA President Huan Zhang Jing Wang and Winnie Won Yin Wong This piece is an interview conducted as an e-­mail Q&A by the editors with Huan Zhang in November 2013. Editors: First we would like to review the events as you...

... of Qing “backwardness,” which influenced not only Europeans and US citizens but also modern Chinese reformers and revolutionaries in their efforts to fashion a “new” China that would one day catch up with and surpass Japan. This 1895 reversal of narratives lies in the background of the 2006 MIT...

...Qin Shao The unfolding of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) incident in spring 2006 led to lively exchanges and debates among scholars on the US-based Asian studies listserv, H-Asia, which lasted from early May to mid-June. They were the most rapid, intense exchanges and debates...

...Winnie Won Yin Wong This article explores the correspondences between Lu Xun's famous “lantern slide moment” at Sendai Medical Academy in Japan in 1906, and the Visualizing Cultures student protest at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2006. In both incidents, wartime images of Japanese...

...Jing Wang This think piece returns the MIT controversy to an analytical frame that was largely ignored in 2006—the digital. Online reading habits have changed the ways of how we navigate the Web. Surfing through hyperlinks gave rise to decontextualization and the decoupling of images from...

...Tani Barlow This essay raises for discussion complicated issues of political community, political action, racial identification, and moral panic. Barlow's commentary on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) controversy asks why identification with brutal images seems to lead no further...

...Jack Linchuan Qiu This article provides a historical overview of image-driven nationalism with special emphasis attached to (a) the transforming culture of online nationalism that underlies college-student forums such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology bulletin board system (MIT BBS...

...Jing Wang; Winnie Won Yin Wong This special issue reflects upon the student protest and public controversy over the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Visualizing Cultures website in 2006 from multiple perspectives. Three sets of questions raised by the incident are addressed...

... of the relationship. Several high-profile incidents spurred the emergence of anti-Japanese patriotism online in China, including the 2006 MIT controversy. This article examines the misplacement of context and the misinterpretation of “apology” ( daoqian ) in that controversy, which set forth different discussion...

... Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Note on Digital Sources The MIT home page, which is designed to change daily with a different “spotlight” image, is www.web.mit.edu. The course unit of the MIT Open- CourseWare...

...- cal weapon of the party — there is no escaping the conclusion that the ava- lanche of criticism over the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) website may have also been related to the fact that for some of the critics...

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... at MIT. He is the author of The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story (2013) and Hip-­Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization (2006). Benjamin Elman is the Gordon Wu 1958...

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