The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo Volume 27
(Part of the Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes Series)
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It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan's emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution--at once museum, laboratory, and prison--of the zoological garden. In this eye-opening study of Japan's first modern zoo, Tokyo's Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520377524
ISBN13:9780520377523
Release Date:January 2021
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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