Constance J S Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3424203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constance J S Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constance J S |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN C J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Constance J. S. Chen is Assistant Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University. She is currently working on a book project that examines how the fascination with Asia redefined race, aesthetics, and transnationalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Merchants of Asianness: Japanese Art Dealers in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century
This article explores the role of Japanese merchants within American art and collecting circles and analyzes the ways in which the construction of "Asianness" and, in particular, "Japaneseness" became intertwined with the classification of Asian art. In order to reconstitute the market for high art and to create their own positionalities as legitimate cultural intermediaries, Asian art dealers such as Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940) and Sadajiro Yaman…
The Esoteric Buddhist”: William Sturgis Bigelow and the Culture of Dissent
This article moves beyond Lears' argument and asserts that the white American fascination with the exotic East not only reflected their desire to escape from and to protest against the emerging urban-industrial world but, more importantly, to come to terms with modernization and mechanization in the Gilded Age. In the end, their dissension was a limited one. While conversion to Buddhism seemed to be a revolutionary disengagement from New England …
Transnational Orientals: Scholars of Art, Nationalist Discourses, and the Question of Intellectual Authority
This article examines the ways in which two scholars of Japanese descent, Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913) and Kojiro Tomita (1890-1976), defined the bourgeois fascination for East Asia in early twentieth-century United States. Fashioning multi-layered, transnational identities for themselves as authoritative cultural intermediaries, they occupied privileged positions within American social and intellectual circles and became active participants in deb…
Merchants of Asianness: Japanese Art Dealers in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century
This article explores the role of Japanese merchants within American art and collecting circles and analyzes the ways in which the construction of "Asianness" and, in particular, "Japaneseness" became intertwined with the classification of Asian art. In order to reconstitute the market for high art and to create their own positionalities as legitimate cultural intermediaries, Asian art dealers such as Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940) and Sadajiro Yaman…
Transnational Orientals: Scholars of Art, Nationalist Discourses, and the Question of Intellectual Authority
This article examines the ways in which two scholars of Japanese descent, Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913) and Kojiro Tomita (1890-1976), defined the bourgeois fascination for East Asia in early twentieth-century United States. Fashioning multi-layered, transnational identities for themselves as authoritative cultural intermediaries, they occupied privileged positions within American social and intellectual circles and became active participants in deb…
The Esoteric Buddhist”: William Sturgis Bigelow and the Culture of Dissent
This article moves beyond Lears' argument and asserts that the white American fascination with the exotic East not only reflected their desire to escape from and to protest against the emerging urban-industrial world but, more importantly, to come to terms with modernization and mechanization in the Gilded Age. In the end, their dissension was a limited one. While conversion to Buddhism seemed to be a revolutionary disengagement from New England …
Merchants of Asianness: Japanese Art Dealers in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century
This article explores the role of Japanese merchants within American art and collecting circles and analyzes the ways in which the construction of "Asianness" and, in particular, "Japaneseness" became intertwined with the classification of Asian art. In order to reconstitute the market for high art and to create their own positionalities as legitimate cultural intermediaries, Asian art dealers such as Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940) and Sadajiro Yaman…
Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)