Amy Matthewson
Biographic Data
| ID | 2364157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Matthewson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Matthewson |
| SIGNATURE | MATTHEWSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-2752-9069 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Unbeaten Tracks
Isabella Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan was first published in 1880 as a compilation of letters Bird wrote to her sister Henrietta, describing her journey travelling from Tōhoku to Hokkaidō. In 1973, Unbeaten Tracks was abridged and translated by Takanashi Kenkichi, and since then, there have been new translations and re-creations of Bird as a character in Japanese novels, reading guides, and most notably, in Sassa Taiga’s manga Unbeaten Tracks …
The Politics of Emotions
This paper explores the ways emotion and politics intersect through the work of cartoonist David Low. It investigates how emotions function both as a tool for influencing public political awareness and as a means of constructing journalistic authority. Low positioned himself as an ‘artist-expert’, claiming an ability to interpret politics with insight that transcends the written word, and as ‘objective-artist’, whose clarity of vision stood in co…
Patterns in a short life
The missionary Theodosia Ann Barker was the first British-born woman to publish in Chinese in the early nineteenth century. She has been largely forgotten but her brief life and work not only highlight women’s contributions to translation history but also deepen our understanding of the female missionary experience in East Asia. This paper takes a historiographical approach by focussing on Theodosia Ann Barker in order to explore the important co…
Myth and the Making of History
Cartooning China
This book explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901. Filled with political metaphors and racial stereotypes, these illustrations served as a powerful tool in both reflecting and shaping notions and attitudes towards China at a tumultuous time in Sino-British history. A close reading of both the visual and textual satires i…
Cui Malo? Cui Bono? Reflections on a Literary Forgery
This paper is concerned with the intersection between ideological influence, epistemology, and Orientalism. In 1913, an American named William Francis Mannix claimed to have edited a memoir based on the diary of the famous Chinese statesman, Li Hongzhang. The Memoirs of Li Hung Chang was a success in America and Britain, with expert sinologists praising its contributions. When the memoir was exposed as a forgery, some readers struggled to explain…
Satirising imperial anxiety in Victorian Britain
Japan’s opening to global trade during the second half of the nineteenth century aroused much interest from Western nations. Attempts to understand the nation were made by classifying Japan and its people within the racial and political hierarchies known at the time, which were frequently contradictory in attitude. By focusing on the popular British satirical magazine, Punch, this paper explores the ways in which Japan was used as a satirical “ot…
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Cui Malo? Cui Bono? Reflections on a Literary Forgery
This paper is concerned with the intersection between ideological influence, epistemology, and Orientalism. In 1913, an American named William Francis Mannix claimed to have edited a memoir based on the diary of the famous Chinese statesman, Li Hongzhang. The Memoirs of Li Hung Chang was a success in America and Britain, with expert sinologists praising its contributions. When the memoir was exposed as a forgery, some readers struggled to explain…
Satirising imperial anxiety in Victorian Britain
Japan’s opening to global trade during the second half of the nineteenth century aroused much interest from Western nations. Attempts to understand the nation were made by classifying Japan and its people within the racial and political hierarchies known at the time, which were frequently contradictory in attitude. By focusing on the popular British satirical magazine, Punch, this paper explores the ways in which Japan was used as a satirical “ot…
Cartooning China
This book explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901. Filled with political metaphors and racial stereotypes, these illustrations served as a powerful tool in both reflecting and shaping notions and attitudes towards China at a tumultuous time in Sino-British history. A close reading of both the visual and textual satires i…
Myth and the Making of History
The Politics of Emotions
This paper explores the ways emotion and politics intersect through the work of cartoonist David Low. It investigates how emotions function both as a tool for influencing public political awareness and as a means of constructing journalistic authority. Low positioned himself as an ‘artist-expert’, claiming an ability to interpret politics with insight that transcends the written word, and as ‘objective-artist’, whose clarity of vision stood in co…
Patterns in a short life
The missionary Theodosia Ann Barker was the first British-born woman to publish in Chinese in the early nineteenth century. She has been largely forgotten but her brief life and work not only highlight women’s contributions to translation history but also deepen our understanding of the female missionary experience in East Asia. This paper takes a historiographical approach by focussing on Theodosia Ann Barker in order to explore the important co…
Unbeaten Tracks
Isabella Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan was first published in 1880 as a compilation of letters Bird wrote to her sister Henrietta, describing her journey travelling from Tōhoku to Hokkaidō. In 1973, Unbeaten Tracks was abridged and translated by Takanashi Kenkichi, and since then, there have been new translations and re-creations of Bird as a character in Japanese novels, reading guides, and most notably, in Sassa Taiga’s manga Unbeaten Tracks …
Art (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · China (2 works) · History (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philippine History and Culture (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)