Refracted Modernity

Contributors

Contributors Chao-Ching Fu is Professor of Architecture at National Cheng Kung University , Taiwan. His works include Zhongguo gudian shiyang xin jianzhu: Ershi shiji zhongguo xin jianzhu guanzhihua de lishi yanjiu (New Chinese Architecture in Classical Styles: Historical Studies on Institutionalization of Twentieth Century New Chinese Architecture) (Taipei: Nantian Books, 1993); Tainanshi riju shiqi lishixing jianzhu (Historic Buildings in Tainan Built during the Japanese Period) (Tainan: Tainan City Government, 1995); Rizhi shiqi Taiwan jianzhu 1895–1945 (Architecture in Japanese Period 1895–1945) (Taipei: The Earth, 1999); Lishi baocun yu guji weihu: Guoji wenxian (Historic Preservation and Building Conservation : International Documents) (Tainan: Taiwan Architecture and Cultural Property Press, 2002); Xiyang jianzhu fazhan shihua (History of Western Architecture ) (Tainan: Taiwan Architecture and Cultural Property Press, 2003); and Culture, History and Architecture: Essays on Architecture in Taiwan (Tainan: Taiwan Architecture and Cultural Property Press, 2004). Chia-yu Hu is Associate Professor of Anthropology at National Taiwan University , Taiwan. Her works include Chia-yu Hu and Elaine Tsui, eds., Taida renleixuexi Inō cangpin yanjiu (Studies on Inō’s Collection at the Department of Anthropology of National Taiwan University) (Taipei: Department of Anthropology , National Taiwan University, 1998); “Artifacts, Visual Communication , and Social Memory: Preliminary Research of the Saisiat Ritual Object,” Bulletin of the Department of Anthropology (Taipei: National Taiwan University) 55 (2000); “Ritual Foods and Tatinii Memories of the Saisiat: Links between Cultural Imagery and Sensory Experiences,” in Ying-Kuei Huang, ed., Substance and Material Cultures (Taipei: Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2004); “Great Exhibitions and the Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples: The Politics of Representation and the Images of Others in the Colonial Period,” The Bulletin of the Department of Anthropology 62 (2005). Yuko Kikuchi is senior research fellow at TrAIN (Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation), University of the Arts London, United Kingdom . Her works include Ruskin in Japan 1890–1940: Nature for Art, Art for Life, coauthored with Toshio Watanabe (Tokyo: Cogito, 1997) and Mingei Theory and Japanese Modernisation: Cultural Nationalism and “Oriental Orientalism” 274 | Contributors (London: RoutlegeCurzon, 2004). She was also a member of the curatorial group for the Japan section of the “International Arts & Crafts” exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2005. This exhibition traveled to Indianapolis and San Francisco and was the principal contributor of “Japan and the Mingei movement” in Karen Livingstone and Linda Parry, eds., International Arts and Crafts (London: V&A Publications, 2005). Kaoru Kojima is Associate Professor of Art History at Jissen Women’s University , Japan. Her works include Fujishima Takeji (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1998) and “Kimononojosei-zōni mirukindai nihon noaidentitī keisei” (Images of Women in Modern Kimono and Their Representation of Japanese Identity), in Bijutsu to jendā: Kōsa suru manazashi (Art and Gender 2: Intersecting Visions) (Tokyo: Brücke, 2005). Ming-chu Lai is an Associate Professor in the Interior Design Department of theChung-yuanUniversity,Taiwan.Herworksinclude Taiwanmeishudifangfazhanshiquanchi :Taoyuandiqu(AComprehensiveCollectionof TaiwanRegional Art History: Taoyuan Area) (Taipei: The Council for Cultural Affairs, Executive Yuan, ROC, 2004); “Fuquan yu zhengquan zai nüxing huajia zuopin zhong de xiaoyong: Yi Chen Pi-nu 40 niandai zhi chuangzuo weili” (The Function of the Patriarchy and Political Power in the Works of Female Painters: Painting of Chen Pi-nu in the 1940s as an Example), Yishujia (Artist Magazine) 273 (1998). Hsin-tien Liao is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Institute of Art-culture Policy and Management at the Taiwan National University of Arts. His recent works include “Jinxiang qingque: Taiwan jinxiandai shijueyishu fazhanzhong bentuyishi de sanzhong mianmou” (Hesitating to Approach the Homeland: Three Facets of Native Consciousness in the Development of the Modern Taiwan Visual Art), Wenhua Yanjiu (Journal of Culture Studies) 2 (2006); “Meihau de ziran yu beican de ziran: Zhimin Taiwan fengjing de renwen yuedu” (Naturalistic and Distorted Natures: The Conception of Colonial Taiwanese Landscape in Visual Art and Surrealist Poetry), in Li Huiwen, ed., Duoyuan wenhua yu houzhimin: Kongjian zauquanshi (The Multicultural and Postcolonial: Reinterpretation of Space) (Tainan: Kun Shan University, 2005); “Cong ziran de Taiwan dao wenhua de Taiwan: Riju shidai Taiwan fengjing tuxiang de shijue biaozheng tanshi” (From Natural Taiwan to Cultural Taiwan: The Visual Representation of Taiwan Landscape Image during the Japanese Occupation), Lishi Wenwu (Bulletin of the National Museum of History) 126 (2004). Naoko Shimazu is a Senior Lecturer in Japanese History at Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom. She is the author of Japan, Race and Equality:The RacialEquality Proposalof 1919 (London:Routledge,1998),andthe editor of Nationalisms in Japan (London: Routledge, 2006). She has...