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Heritage, Memory, and Punishment
Based on a transnational study of decommissioned, postcolonial prisons in Taiwan (Taipei and Chiayi), South Korea (Seoul), and China (Lushun), this book offers a critical reading of prisons as a particular colonial product, the current restoration of which as national heritage is closely related to the evolving conceptualization of punishment. Focusing on the colonial prisons built by the Japanese Empire in the first half of the twentieth century, it illuminates how punishment has been considered a subject of modernization, while the contemporary use of prisons as heritage tends to reduce the process of colonial modernity to oppression and atrocity – thus constituting a heritage of shame a...
Difficult Heritage and Immersive Experiences
Difficult Heritage and Immersive Experiences examines the benefits involved in designing and employing immersive technologies to reconstruct difficult pasts at heritage sites around the world. Presenting interdisciplinary case studies of heritage sites and museums from across a range of different contexts, the volume analyzes the ways in which various types of immersive technologies can help visitors to contextualize and negotiate difficult or sensitive heritage and traumatic pasts. Demonstrating that some of the most creative applications of immersive experiences appear in and at museums and heritage sites, the book showcases how immersive technologies offer the possibility of confronting a...
Mastery of Words and Swords
The crisis of masculinity surfaced and converged with the crisis of the nation in the late Qing, after the doors of China were forced open by Opium Wars. The power of physical aggression increasingly overshadowed literary attainments and became a new imperative of male honor in the late Qing and early Republican China. Afflicted with anxiety and indignation about their increasingly effeminate image as perceived by Western colonial powers, Chinese intellectuals strategically distanced themselves from the old literati and reassessed their positions vis-à-vis violence. In Mastery of Words and Swords: Negotiating Intellectual Masculinities in Modern China, 1890s–1930s, Jun Lei explores the fo...
A Modern Miscellany
In A Modern Miscellany: Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei’s Circle and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938 Paul Bevan explores how the cartoon (manhua) emerged from its place in the Chinese modern art world to become a propaganda tool in the hands of left-wing artists. The artists involved in what was largely a transcultural phenomenon were an eclectic group working in the areas of fashion and commercial art and design. The book demonstrates that during the build up to all-out war the cartoon was not only important in the sphere of Shanghai popular culture in the eyes of the publishers and readers of pictorial magazines but that it occupied a central place in the primary discourse of Chinese modern art history.
The Smell of Risk
A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral—and personal—form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its qualities of subjectivity, volatility, and materiality. But it is these very qualities that make olfaction a vital tool for sensing and staging environmental risk and inequality. Unlike the other senses, smell extends across space and reaches into our bodies. Hsu traces how writers, artists, and activists have deployed these embodied, biochemical qualities of smell in their efforts to critique and reshape modernity’s olfactory disparities. The S...
Knowledge Management in Organisations
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organisations, KMO 2023, held in Bangkok, Thailand, during July 24–27, 2023. The 32 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Knowledge Transfer & Sharing, Knowledge in Business & Organisation, Digital Transformation and Innovation, Data Analysis and Science, KM and Education, Knowledge Management Process and Model, Information & Knowledge Systems, IT &New Trends in KM, Healthcare.
J.J. Pan and Partners
Stressing total quality in all aspects of architectural practice, the J.J. Pan monograph features a rich collection of building types. According to Taiwanese architect, Joshua Jih Pan, such total quality includes at least design, service and delivery whi
Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2004
This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Symposium on Neural N- works (ISNN 2004) held in Dalian, Liaoning, China duringAugust 19–21, 2004. ISNN 2004 received over 800 submissions from authors in ?ve continents (Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania), and 23 countries and regions (mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, India, Iran, Israel, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, - nezuela, Chile, andAustralia). Based on reviews, the Program Committee selected 329 high-quality papers for presentation at ISNN 2004 and publication in the proceedings. The papers are organized into many top...
台灣光華雜誌2022年8月號中英文版
現今人們早已習慣生活在由水泥、磚塊、鋼筋所構築而成的都會叢林，似乎少了些與土壤的直接連結，但陽光、空氣和水是生物生存的三大基本要素，存在大地數億年以上的「土壤」，則讓動植物有了依託與根基。 聯合國第68屆會議中宣布2015年為「國際土壤年」（International Year of Soils），除了提高人類生活中「土壤」的重要性，也希望透過土地資源的保護，為未來糧食安全及減緩氣候暖化作準備。台灣位處歐亞大陸板塊的交會處，全球12個土綱土壤，在這座島嶼上，能觀察到的竟有11種之多，如火山活動殘留下來的灰燼土、高山針葉林下生成的淋澱土、草原植物環境生成的黑沃土，以及由河川沖積生成的淋溶土，說台灣是座大型的「世界土壤博物館」，一點都不為過。
Afterlives of Letters
When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature because of the centuries-long cultural exchanges in the region. As modernization profoundly destabilized cultural norms, they ventured to create new literature for the new era. Satoru Hashimoto offers a novel way of understanding the origins of modern literature in a transregional context, drawing on Chinese-, Japanese-, and Korean-language texts in both classical and vernacular forms. He argues that modern literature came into being in East Asia through writerly attempts at reconstructing the present’s historical relationship to the past across ...
