Tze M Loo
Biographic Data
| ID | 324385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tze M Loo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tze M |
| FAMILY NAME | Loo |
| SIGNATURE | LOO T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Richmond |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Gabe Masao in Translation
The following section includes an introduction to the work of Okinawan historian Gabe Masao by Wendy Matsumura and Tze M. Loo, along with translations of two of his articles that were previously available only in the original Japanese. First, Matsumura and Loo’s introduction situates Gabe’s work within the historiographical literature on the Ryūkyū kingdom’s annexation by the Japanese state, arguing that although he eschews the word “colonialism”…
Actions toward Modern Japanese National Consciousness
[...]Previous scholarship has shown that an explanation of the formation of modern Japanese national consciousness is, on the whole, no easy task. This is because a theoretical and empirical explanation of that political process can come only after clarifying the different levels in the structure of the modern Japanese state’s consciousness. In this article, “modern Japanese national consciousness” refers to the ideology of and policies toward th…
Trapped in Text
This article situates the discourses produced during an anti-yuta shaman campaign in 1913 within a longer trajectory of the changing position of Okinawa's female ritualists following Japan's formal colonization of Okinawa. Women have historically dominated Okinawa's ritual world as its practitioners, but their power and position were less certain by the 1940s. Examining the arguments produced in newspaper articles and by the prominent Okinawan in…
A Social History of the Ise Shrines
Islands for an Anxious Empire
A century after the victorious Allied powers distributed their spoils of victory in 1919, the world still lives with the geopolitical consequences of the mandates system established by the League of Nations. The Covenant article authorizing the new imperial dispensation came cloaked in the old civilizationist discourse, entrusting sovereignty over “peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world” to …
The Ryukyu Kingdom
Reviewed by: The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia by Mamoru Akamine Tze M. Loo (bio) The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia. By Mamoru Akamine; translated by Lina Terrell and edited by Robert Huey. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2017. xii, 200 pages. $62.00. The English-language scholarship on Okinawan history, while populated with specialized monographs and edited volumes, has few accessible historical surveys that provide …
Japan's Dark Industrial Heritage
Cultural heritage preservation is literally and metaphorically big business in Japan. Not only does the Japanese government commit considerable resources to the designation of heritage at local, national, and international levels, heritage preservation plays a central role in strategies to develop Japanese tourism on which the country's economy is increasingly reliant. Many local communities are persuaded both by the idea of tourism as a path to …
Should "Gunkanjima" Be a World Heritage site? - The forgotten scars of Korean forced labor
In early May 2015, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) reported that the 23 sites related to Japan's industrialization in the Meiji period ("Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining") met the criteria for designation as World Heritage sites. ICOMOS' evaluation paved the way for the sites to be inscribed in the World Heritage list at the 39th session of the World Heritage Comm…
Shuri Castle's Other Histories
Like Smits' article, the following piece by Tze M. Loo reveals a "forgotten" aspect of Okinawan history; in this case the post-1879 history behind what is contemporary Okinawa's most iconic architectural structure -the reconstructed Shuri Castle that was completed in 1992. Shuri, which is currently the eastern portion of the city of Naha, was the capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom and Shuri Castle its seat of government. Given this background, it is n…
Escaping its past
This essay examines how the Grand Shrine of Ise has successfully distanced itself from its prewar and wartime associations with Japanese imperialism and nationalism to become an untroubling site of Japanese cultural identity. Building on Jonathan Reynolds' essay which traces Ise's transformation to become a sign of Japanese aesthetics, this essay extends the examination of Ise's rehabilitation to two other trajectories. First, it examines SCAP's …
Shuri Castle's Other History
The Ryūkyū Kingdom Festival (Ryūkyū ōchō matsuri), organized and sponsored by the Shuri Promotion Association (Shuri shinkōkai), is a fixture on Okinawa Prefecture's cultural and tourist calendar.This one-day festival is one part of the larger Shuri Castle Festival (Shurijō sai); together, they celebrate the grandeur of the Ryūkyū Kingdom and its court traditions as a pure cultural past for the prefecture. Of pivotal importance to these events is…
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Shuri Castle's Other History
The Ryūkyū Kingdom Festival (Ryūkyū ōchō matsuri), organized and sponsored by the Shuri Promotion Association (Shuri shinkōkai), is a fixture on Okinawa Prefecture's cultural and tourist calendar.This one-day festival is one part of the larger Shuri Castle Festival (Shurijō sai); together, they celebrate the grandeur of the Ryūkyū Kingdom and its court traditions as a pure cultural past for the prefecture. Of pivotal importance to these events is…
Escaping its past
This essay examines how the Grand Shrine of Ise has successfully distanced itself from its prewar and wartime associations with Japanese imperialism and nationalism to become an untroubling site of Japanese cultural identity. Building on Jonathan Reynolds' essay which traces Ise's transformation to become a sign of Japanese aesthetics, this essay extends the examination of Ise's rehabilitation to two other trajectories. First, it examines SCAP's …
Shuri Castle's Other Histories
Like Smits' article, the following piece by Tze M. Loo reveals a "forgotten" aspect of Okinawan history; in this case the post-1879 history behind what is contemporary Okinawa's most iconic architectural structure -the reconstructed Shuri Castle that was completed in 1992. Shuri, which is currently the eastern portion of the city of Naha, was the capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom and Shuri Castle its seat of government. Given this background, it is n…
Should "Gunkanjima" Be a World Heritage site? - The forgotten scars of Korean forced labor
In early May 2015, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) reported that the 23 sites related to Japan's industrialization in the Meiji period ("Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining") met the criteria for designation as World Heritage sites. ICOMOS' evaluation paved the way for the sites to be inscribed in the World Heritage list at the 39th session of the World Heritage Comm…
Japan's Dark Industrial Heritage
Cultural heritage preservation is literally and metaphorically big business in Japan. Not only does the Japanese government commit considerable resources to the designation of heritage at local, national, and international levels, heritage preservation plays a central role in strategies to develop Japanese tourism on which the country's economy is increasingly reliant. Many local communities are persuaded both by the idea of tourism as a path to …
The Ryukyu Kingdom
Reviewed by: The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia by Mamoru Akamine Tze M. Loo (bio) The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia. By Mamoru Akamine; translated by Lina Terrell and edited by Robert Huey. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2017. xii, 200 pages. $62.00. The English-language scholarship on Okinawan history, while populated with specialized monographs and edited volumes, has few accessible historical surveys that provide …
A Social History of the Ise Shrines
Islands for an Anxious Empire
A century after the victorious Allied powers distributed their spoils of victory in 1919, the world still lives with the geopolitical consequences of the mandates system established by the League of Nations. The Covenant article authorizing the new imperial dispensation came cloaked in the old civilizationist discourse, entrusting sovereignty over “peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world” to …
Trapped in Text
This article situates the discourses produced during an anti-yuta shaman campaign in 1913 within a longer trajectory of the changing position of Okinawa's female ritualists following Japan's formal colonization of Okinawa. Women have historically dominated Okinawa's ritual world as its practitioners, but their power and position were less certain by the 1940s. Examining the arguments produced in newspaper articles and by the prominent Okinawan in…
Gabe Masao in Translation
The following section includes an introduction to the work of Okinawan historian Gabe Masao by Wendy Matsumura and Tze M. Loo, along with translations of two of his articles that were previously available only in the original Japanese. First, Matsumura and Loo’s introduction situates Gabe’s work within the historiographical literature on the Ryūkyū kingdom’s annexation by the Japanese state, arguing that although he eschews the word “colonialism”…
Actions toward Modern Japanese National Consciousness
[...]Previous scholarship has shown that an explanation of the formation of modern Japanese national consciousness is, on the whole, no easy task. This is because a theoretical and empirical explanation of that political process can come only after clarifying the different levels in the structure of the modern Japanese state’s consciousness. In this article, “modern Japanese national consciousness” refers to the ideology of and policies toward th…
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