Transnational Orientals
Scholars of Art, Nationalist Discourses, and the Question of Intellectual Authority
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469773 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Constance J S Chen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 215-242 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaas.2006.0023 |
| OpenAlex | W2065329936 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
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 debates regarding the impacts of modernization and Westernization on Asia and its aesthetics. In the process, Okakura and Tomita constructed and disseminated discourses of race, nationalism, and culture that served to decenter the nation-state and to underscore the complexities of the immigrant experience amidst socio-economic and political transformations taking place on both sides of the Pacific
Bourgeoisie · Modernization theory · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Westernization · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law
Asian America
Making and remaking Asian America through immigration policy, 1850-1990
Strangers in the Land Patterns of American Nativism 1800-1925
Iron cages
The new generation in Meiji Japan
The Golden Door
The Five Dollar Day
The Indispensable Enemy
Claiming America
My Life in China and America
Farming the Home Place
In other worlds
Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan
No Separate Refuge
Imaging History
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |