Alice Y Tseng
Biographic Data
| ID | 1167716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice Y Tseng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Tseng |
| SIGNATURE | TSENG A Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Review
K irsten L. Z iomek . Lost Histories
When I recently offered a new seminar course focused on Japan’s participation in the international exposition circuit of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, students were most drawn to the assigned readings about live human displays, not of Japanese but of peoples colonized by Japanese, that were recurring features at these events. Within the larger framework of my course, which traced the Japanese nation’s exertions to justify a p…
Imperial Portraiture and Popular Print Media in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
This article examines Japanese imperial portraiture in the emerging mass media of the late Meiji and Taisho periods. Photography used with other artistic and reproductive methods generated the ubiquitous presence of the imperial family and other elites in newspapers, illustrated journals, and picture postcards. While unprecedented visual access to the monarchy promised immediacy and authenticity, the wide-ranging body of graphic representations a…
Modern Kyoto
Can an imperial city survive, let alone thrive, without an emperor? Alice Y. Tseng answers this intriguing question in Modern Kyoto, a comprehensive study of the architectural and urban projects carried out in the old capital following Emperor Meiji's move to Tokyo in 1868. Tseng contends that Kyoto—from the time of the relocation to the height of the Asia-Pacific War—remained critical to Japan's emperor-centered national agenda as politicians, p…
From Modern to Contemporary
Painting Circles
Reviewed by: Painting Circles: Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga Collectives in Early 20th-Century Japan by John D. Szostak Alice Y. Tseng (bio) Painting Circles: Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga Collectives in Early 20th-Century Japan. By John D. Szostak. Brill, Leiden, 2013. x, 290 pages. €103.00. “Art is something born, not produced by mechanism or institution. When fostered deep within the spirit, art reveals the true qualities of humanity; when perme…
Kuroda Seiki's Morning Toilette on Exhibition in Modern Kyoto
After nearly ten years of training in France, the artist Kuroda Seiki returned to Japan to mark his professional debut with the exhibition of his controversial painting Morning Toilette (1893). Kuroda's painting of a nude woman standing before a mirror was first shown publicly in Paris and Tokyo but did not gain widespread recognition and notoriety until its display at the Fourth National Industrial Exhibition held in Kyoto in 1895. Receiving bot…
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Kuroda Seiki's Morning Toilette on Exhibition in Modern Kyoto
After nearly ten years of training in France, the artist Kuroda Seiki returned to Japan to mark his professional debut with the exhibition of his controversial painting Morning Toilette (1893). Kuroda's painting of a nude woman standing before a mirror was first shown publicly in Paris and Tokyo but did not gain widespread recognition and notoriety until its display at the Fourth National Industrial Exhibition held in Kyoto in 1895. Receiving bot…
Painting Circles
Reviewed by: Painting Circles: Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga Collectives in Early 20th-Century Japan by John D. Szostak Alice Y. Tseng (bio) Painting Circles: Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga Collectives in Early 20th-Century Japan. By John D. Szostak. Brill, Leiden, 2013. x, 290 pages. €103.00. “Art is something born, not produced by mechanism or institution. When fostered deep within the spirit, art reveals the true qualities of humanity; when perme…
Modern Kyoto
Can an imperial city survive, let alone thrive, without an emperor? Alice Y. Tseng answers this intriguing question in Modern Kyoto, a comprehensive study of the architectural and urban projects carried out in the old capital following Emperor Meiji's move to Tokyo in 1868. Tseng contends that Kyoto—from the time of the relocation to the height of the Asia-Pacific War—remained critical to Japan's emperor-centered national agenda as politicians, p…
From Modern to Contemporary
Imperial Portraiture and Popular Print Media in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
This article examines Japanese imperial portraiture in the emerging mass media of the late Meiji and Taisho periods. Photography used with other artistic and reproductive methods generated the ubiquitous presence of the imperial family and other elites in newspapers, illustrated journals, and picture postcards. While unprecedented visual access to the monarchy promised immediacy and authenticity, the wide-ranging body of graphic representations a…
K irsten L. Z iomek . Lost Histories
When I recently offered a new seminar course focused on Japan’s participation in the international exposition circuit of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, students were most drawn to the assigned readings about live human displays, not of Japanese but of peoples colonized by Japanese, that were recurring features at these events. Within the larger framework of my course, which traced the Japanese nation’s exertions to justify a p…
Review
Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works)