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Paperback The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo Volume 27 Book

ISBN: 0520377524

ISBN13: 9780520377523

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...

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