Nature of the beasts : empire and exhibition at the Tokyo imperial zoo
Series: Asia: local studies / global themes ; Vol. 27Publication details: University of California Press, 2013 Berkeley: Description: xxvii; 322p. hb; 24 cmISBN:- 9780520271869
- Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan)
- Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) -- History
- Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History -- 19th century
- Zoos -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History
- Philosophy of nature -- Japan -- History
- Nature and civilization -- Japan -- History
- NATURE -- Animals -- General
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General - Wildlife
- HISTORY -- Asia -- General
- Nature and civilization
- Philosophy of nature
- Japan
- 590.52135 MIL
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It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan's emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution-at once museum, laboratory, and prison-of the zoological garden. In this eye-opening study of Japan's first modern zoo, Tokyo's Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan's rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world.
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