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

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Foreword by Harriet Ritvo
Acknowledgements
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INTRODUCTION
Japan’s Ecological Modernity

I. Animals in the Anthropocene
II. Ecological Modernity in Japan
III. The Natural World as Exhibition

PART ONE
The Nature of Civilization

CHAPTER ONE:
Japan’s Animal Kingdom: The Origins of Ecological Modernity and the Birth of the Zoo

I.? Bringing Politics to Life
II.? Sorting Animals Out in Meiji Japan
III.? Animals in the Exhibitionary Complex
IV.? The Ueno Zoo
V. Ishikawa Chiyomatsu and the Evolution of Exhibition
VI. Bigot’s Japan

CHAPTER TWO:
The Dreamlife of Imperialism: Commerce, Conquest, and the Naturalization of Ecological Modernity

I. The Dreamlife of Empire
II. The Nature of Empire
III. Nature Behind Glass
IV. Backstage at the Zoo
V. The Illusion of Liberty
VI. Imperial Trophies
VII. Imperial Nature

PART TWO
The Culture of Total War

CHAPTER THREE:
Military Animals: The Zoological Gardens and the Culture of Total War

I. Military Animals
II. Mobilizing the Animal World
III. The Eye of the Tiger
IV. Animal Soldiers
V. Horse Power

CHAPTER FOUR:?
The Great Zoo Massacre

I. Tokyo, 1943
II. A Strange Sort of Ceremony
III. Mass-Mediated Sacrifice
IV. The Taxonomy of a Massacre
V. The Killing Floor
VI. And Then There Were Two

PART THREE
After Empire

CHAPTER FIVE:?
The Children’s Zoo: Elephant Ambassadors and Other Creatures of the Allied Occupation

I. Bambi Goes to Tokyo
II. Empire After Empire
III. Neo-Colonial Potlatch
IV. “Animal Kindergarten”
V. Occupied Japan’s Elephant Mania
VI. Elephant Ambassadors

CHAPTER SIX:?
Pandas in the Anthropocene: Japan’s “Panda Boom” and the Limits of Ecological Modernity

I. The “Panda Boom”
II. The Science of Charisma
III. Panda Diplomacy
IV. “Living Stuffed Animals”
V. The Biotechnology of Cute

EPILOGUE:?
The Sorrows of Ecological Modernity

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