International expositions or "world's fairs" are the largest and most important stage on which millions routinely gather to directly experience, express, and respond to cultural difference. Rather than looking at Asian representation at the hands of colonizing powers, something already much examined, this book instead focuses on expressions of an empowered Asian self-representation at world's fairs in the West after the so-called golden age of the exhibition. New modes of representation became possible as the older "exhibitionary order" of earlier fairs gave way to a dominant "performative order," one increasingly preoccupied with generating experience and affect. Using case studies of national representation at selected fairs over the hundred-year period from 1915-2015, this book considers both the politics of representation as well as what happens within the imaginative worlds of Asian country pavilions, where the performative has become the dominant mode for imprinting directly on human bodies.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Works Cited
- Note on Asian Names
- 1: Introduction
- Setting the Stage
- From the Exhibitionary Order to the Performative Order
- Methodology and Scope
- Organisation and Overview
- 2: The Master of the Form
- Japan at San Francisco’s 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition
- Japan in San Francisco
- The Performance of Diplomacy: Sites of Encounter
- Site 1: Japanese Pavilions and Gardens: The Performing Spectator
- Site 2: Japan Beautiful: Authenticity and Girls, Maids, and Geisha
- Site 3: Consuming Japan All Over the Place
- Site 4: Japanese Fine Arts
- Japan as America Wants to See It
- 3: The New China and
Chinese-Americanness
- China at San Francisco’s 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition
- America in China; China in America
- Chinatown Goes to the Expo
- Male Labour: Queer Clothing, Queer Food
- National Self-Representation
- China on Display: The Old China Trade, The New China Trade
- ‘Underground Chinatown’ and Chinese-American Identity
- 4: Performing Japan in the ‘World of Tomorrow’
- Japan at the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair
- Diplomatic Performances of the Love-Fest Narrative
- The Japanese Pavilion and the Feminine Face of Japan
- Japan Day, 1939 and 1940
- Performing Japan: Silk-Spinning Maidens and the Takarazuka Revue
- 5: From ‘Panda Diplomacy’ to Acrobat Diplomacy
- China at the Brisbane’s Expo ’88
- Expo ’88: Free Enterprise and ‘Leisure in the Age of Technology’
- China in Australia
- The China Pavilion
- Acrobat Diplomacy
- The Road to Tiananmen
- 6: Fashion, Dance, and Representing
the Filipina
- The Philippines at the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair
- Breaking Ground: Filipiniana Fashion and the President’s Daughter
- The Pavilion: Performance of Hospitality
- Philippine Week 1964: Fashion and Dance Collide
- 7: Performing Modernity under Sukarno’s ‘Roving Eye’
- Indonesia at the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair
- Wayang Kulit, Dance and National Identity
- A Modernist Pavilion: Tradition, and Girls, Girls, Girls
- Dancing the Traditional in the Modern and the Modern in the Traditional
- ‘Girl Watching’ and the Legacy of the Indonesian Pavilion
- 8: Maximizing Affect, Minimizing Impact with Hansik
- South Korea at the 2015 Milan International Exposition
- Setting the Stage: Soft Power, Foodways, and Milan
- Hansik and the Pavilion Experience
- Korea Rocks Milan
- 9: Hard and Soft Power in the Thai Pavilion
- The Spectral Presence of King Bhumibol at the 2015 Milan Exposition
- Soft and Hard Power in the ‘Kitchen to the World’
- Site 1: Encountering the ‘Golden Land’
- Site 2: Corporatized Food Production
- Site 3: Encountering the Farmer King
- On Power and Exiting though the Giftshop
- 10: Conclusion
- The Future of Asian Self-Representation at the International Exposition
- Works Cited
- Index
- List of Figures
- Figure 1. Logo from “Loving Cup” dedicated to the Japanese Emperor
- Figure 2. Imperial Japanese Pavilion and gardens, PPIE, 1915
- Figure 3. Kimono-clad woman in garden of Japanese concession
- Figure 4. Bain family in the Japanese Garden
- Figure 5. Women posing in the Japanese Garden
- Figure 6. Schoolgirls at the groundbreaking of ‘Japan Beautiful’
- Figure 7. Japanese Tea House with Mt. Fuji
- Figure 8. Young women in kimonos in front of tea house
- Figure 9. Max Wassman’s photo of two “Maids of Japan”
- Figure 10. Japanese decorative items on display at PPIE
- Figure 11. Chinese officials at dedication of the Chinese Pavilion
- Figure 12. Two young women at groundbreaking of the Chinese Village
- Figure 13. Chinese government entrance from The Esplanade
- Figure 14. Main pavilion on the Chinese government site
- Figure 15. Hall of Audience, Chinese government site
- Figure 16. Chinatown Guide Book, 1939/40 New York World’s Fair
- Figure 17. Rendering of the Japanese Pavilion
- Figure 18. Mikimoto Pearls brochure
- Figure 19. Flame of Friendship at World’s Fair
- Figure 20. Haru Higa at the World’s Fair
- Figure 21. Chinese Gate at Expo ’88
- Figure 22. China pavilion stamp in Expo ’88 passport
- Figure 23. Hebei Acrobatic Troupe
- Figure 24. Governor Poletti at groundbreaking of Philippines pavilion
- Figure 25. Reception following groundbreaking of Philippines Pavilion
- Figure 26. Gloria Macapagal at fair function
- Figure 27. Postcard of the Philippines Pavilion
- Figure 28. Annabelle Jeves “in native dress”
- Figure 29. Folk dancing at the Philippines Pavilion
- Figure 30. Model of the Indonesian Pavilion
- Figure 31. Dance in the Indonesian Pavilion: Arjun vs. Buta Cakil
- Figure 32. Spectators watching dance in the Indonesian Pavilion
- Figure 33. Balinese kebyar termonpong dance in the Indonesian Pavilion
- Figure 34. Republic of Korea Pavilion at Milan Expo
- Figure 35. Ascending the steps, Korea Pavilion
- Figure 36. Obese man, Korea Pavilion
- Figure 37. Emaciated child, Korea Pavilion
- Figure 38. Hand-activated tabletop, Korea Pavilion
- Figure 39. Fermentation gallery, Korea Pavilion
- Figure 40. Exterior, Thailand Pavilion, Milan Expo
- Figure 41. Rich food resources, Thailand Pavilion
- Figure 42. Iconic food dishes, Thailand Pavilion
- Figure 43. Teacher talking to girl, Thailand Pavilion
- Figure 44. King Bhumibol working tirelessly, Thailand Pavilion
- Figure 45. Wall of microwaves, Thailand Pavilion
- Figure 46. Vista of shifting lights, China Pavilion, Milan Expo
- Figure 47. President Xi Jinping, China Pavilion
- Figure 48. Animated cartoon, China Pavilion
- Figure 49. Live dancers, China Pavilion
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