Tracing the Emperor: Photography, Famous Places, and the Imperial Progresses in Prewar Japan

2012 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gyewon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Subjectivity ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Photographic Records

This essay examines the relations between two distinctive photographic projects in prewar Japan: the photographic records of the imperial progresses from 1872 to 1886 and the photographic commemoration of the emperor’s sacred trace during the subsequent half-century. Together, these photographic projects re-present and re-make local landscapes through the mediation of the emperor’s sacred gaze, thereby providing a ground for new knowledge and political subjectivity in early twentieth-century Japan.

Russification and the Lithuanians, 1863–1905

Slavic Review ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore R. Weeks
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Movement ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Restrictive Measures ◽  
Culture And Language

In the half-century after the Polish insurrection of 1863, the Russian government applied many restrictive measures to Lithuanian culture, including the prohibition against printing Lithuanian except in Cyrillic letters. Some have argued that St. Petersburg aimed to wipe out the culture and language of Lithuanians in this period. A close look at the archival sources shows, however, that the Russian authorities were very little concerned with the Lithuanians per se and far more worried about Polish influences in the region. In the end, the Russian government saw Lithuanians only as a pawn in the “age-old struggle” between Poles and Russians. The failure of official Russians to take Lithuanian nationalism seriously meant that the Russian empire was quite unprepared to deal with this popular movement in the early twentieth century.

Science for the Chinese Common Reader? Myriad Treasures and New Knowledge at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-383
Author(s):  
Joan Judge
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Media ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
Western Science ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Time Integral ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Chinese Scholars ◽  
Printed Materials

ArgumentThis article argues that in order to discern the place of science in the epistemology of Chinese common readers, it is critical to look beyond the coastal enclaves where foreign missionaries and experts interacted with Chinese scholars and officials, beyond the translated treatises they produced, and even beyond the various forms of new media that attempted to more widely disseminate the principles of Western science. Instead, it asserts the need to engage a different register of materials that were less directly tied to foreign expertise, more directly in line with pre-existing lineages of printed materials, and at the same time, integral to early-twentieth-century Chinese circuits of information. The article focuses explicitly on one print phenomena that has been completely overlooked in the scholarship to date, the expansion and revitalization of the genre of texts known aswanbao quanshu萬寶全書 (comprehensive compendia of myriad treasures) in the late Qing (1890-1911) and early Republic (1912-1930).

scholarly journals From Matchlocks to Machine Guns: The Modernisation of the Tibetan Army’s Firearms Between Local Production and Import (1895-1950)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Travers
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Local Production ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Relationship ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
And Diffusion

Between 1895 and 1950, the Tibetan government took several steps to improve the firearms and artillery of its troops, setting up local factories and negotiating with foreign powers to purchase arms manufactured abroad. These imports were directly related to the political relationship with these countries and required the introduction and diffusion of new knowledge and techniques among Tibetan troops. Based on Tibetan and English sources, this article discusses some of the challenges met by the Tibetan government in this process and gives an overview of the variety of modern firearms that the Tibetan army used in the early twentieth century.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Motion Pictures ◽  
Southern History ◽  
The South ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Century Development

This introduction lays out the topic, arguments, and structure of the entire book. It begins with a brief case study of Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone’s use of motion pictures as part of her growing business empire in the early twentieth century, argues for the centrality of motion pictures to modern southern history and the influence of the South on the half-century development of the film industry from its beginnings to the early postwar era, and identifies the topics of each chapter to follow.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

V1214: Edward Loughborough Keyes: An Early Twentieth Century Leader In Urology

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 320-320
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stahl ◽  
E. Darracott Vaughan ◽  
Edward S. Belt ◽  
David A. Bloom ◽  
Ann Arbor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

New insights into the controversy surrounding marine biological laboratory (Marine Station) facilities in the Firth of Clyde in the early twentieth century

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-170
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Marine Biological Laboratory ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Biological Laboratory ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Marine Station ◽  
Regius Professor ◽  
Adjacent Island

Three letters from the Sheina Marshall archive at the former University Marine Biological Station Millport (UMBSM) reveal the pivotal significance of Sheina Marshall's father, Dr John Nairn Marshall, behind the scheme planned by Glasgow University's Regius Professor of Zoology, John Graham Kerr. He proposed to build an alternative marine station facility on Cumbrae's adjacent island of Bute in the Firth of Clyde in the early years of the twentieth century to cater predominantly for marine researchers.

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