Kari Shepherdso
n-Scott is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art\, Art History & Visua
l Studies at Duke
University. She is currently a visiting scholar at t
he University of British Columbia while she finishes her dissertation "Utop
ia/Dystopia: Japan's Image of the Manchurian Ideal." Manchukuo.
This paper investigates the recoding of old\, walled\, Chinese towns in relation ship to new urban spaces such as Xinjing and Mukden. Japanese planners deve loped these city spaces in the puppet state of Manchukuo during the 1930s a nd early 1940s. Using tourist literature and imagery featured in Manshû Gra ph\, a monthly magazine published by the Japanese-run South Manchuria Railw ay Company (SMRC)\, I discuss the transformation of these spaces from once- defensive\, cultural signifiers in northeast China into contained sites whe re (it was advertised) Japanese tourists could see Chinese and Manchu life and culture on display. I argue that the city wall\, separating the old tow n from the newly constructed\, modern urban spaces of the SMRC Zones\, cont ributed to the colonial domination of Sino-Manchurian inhabitants in two wa ys: as a tool for scopic domination\; as a screen which facilitated the mat erial separation of spaces intended for Japanese occupation and those which contained the exoticized spectacle of a racial/ethnic Other.
Co-Spon sored by the Department of Asian Studies and the Department of Art History\ , Visual Art and Theory.
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