Massachusetts Institute of Technology © 2022 Visualizing Cultures
Rise & Fall of the Canton Trade System
by Peter C. Perdue
l: China in the World (1700–1860s)
PDF
ll: Macau & Whampoa Anchorage (1700–1860s)
PDF
lll: Canton & Hong Kong (1700–1860s)
PDF
lV: Image Galleries
The First Opium War
by Peter C. Perdue
The Anglo-Chinese War of 1839–1842
PDF
The Opium War in Japanese Eyes
by John W. Dower
An Illustrated 1849 “Story from Overseas”
PDF
The Second Opium War
by Peter C. Perdue & Ellen Sebring
The Anglo-Chinese War of 1856–1859
PDF
The Garden of Perfect Brightness
by Lillian M. Li
l: The Yuanmingyuan as Imperial Paradise (1700–1860)
PDF
ll: European Palaces & Pavillions of the Yuanmingyuan
PDF
lll: Destruction, Looting, and Memory (1860–Present)
PDF
Black Ships & Samurai
by John W. Dower
l: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan (1853–1854)
PDF
ll: Visual Narratives
Yokohama Boomtown
by John W. Dower
Foreigners in Treaty-Port Japan (1859–1872)
PDF
Kiyochika’s Tokyo
by James T. Ulak
l: Master of Modern Melancholy (1876–1881)
PDF
ll: Visual Narratives
lll: Exhibition Video Tour
Felice Beato’s Japan
by Allen Hockley
An Album by the Pioneer Foreign Photographer in Yokohama
l: Places
PDF
ll: People
PDF
Globetrotters’ Japan
by Allen Hockley
Foreigners on the Tourist Circuit in Meiji Japan
l: Places
PDF
ll: People
PDF
John Thomson's China
by Allen Hockley
l:
Illustrations of China and Its People,
Photo Albums (1873–1874)
PDF
ll: Visual Narratives
lll: Albums & Galleries
“Pictures to Draw Tears from Iron”
by Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley
The North China Famine of 1876–1879
PDF
Shanghai’s Lens on the New(s)
by Jeffrey Wasserstrom & Rebecca Nedostup
l:
Dianshizhai Pictorial
(1884–1898)
PDF
ll:
Dianshizhai Pictorial
Issues from the First Year (1884)
Introduction by Peter C. Perdue
lll:
Dianshizhai Pictorial
Gallery (1884–1898)
Throwing Off Asia
by John W. Dower
l: Woodblock Prints of Domestic “Westernization” (1868–1912)
PDF
ll: Woodblock Prints of the Sino-Japanese War (1894–95)
PDF
lll: Woodblock Prints of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05)
PDF
Asia Rising
by John W. Dower
Japanese Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05)
PDF
Yellow Promise/Yellow Peril
by John W. Dower
Foreign Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05)
PDF
Photography & Power in the Colonial Philippines
by Christopher Capozzola
l: Conquest by the Camera (1898–1902)
PDF
ll: Dean Worcester’s Photographic Record of
the Philippines (1898–1913)
PDF
“The Cause of the Riots in the Yangtse Valley”
Missionary Commentary on an Illustrated Anti-Christian
Chinese Pamphlet (1891)
Introduction by Peter C. Perdue
Civilization & Barbarism
by Ellen Sebring
Cartoon Commentary & the “White Man’s Burden” (1898–1902)
PDF
The Boxer Uprising
by Peter C. Perdue and Ellen Sebring
l: The Gathering Storm in North China (1860–1900)
PDF
ll: War & Aftermath (1900–1901)
PDF
lll: The Boxer Uprising — lll
The Empress Dowager & the Camera
by David Hogge
Photographing Cixi, 1903–1904
PDF
Social Protest in Imperial Japan
by Andrew Gordon
The Hibiya Riot of 1905
PDF
Political Protest in Interwar Japan
by Christopher Gerteis
l: Posters & Handbills from the Ohara Collection (1920s–1930s)
PDF
ll: Eight Topical Galleries
Selling Shiseido
by Gennifer Weisenfeld
l: Cosmetics Advertising & Design in Early 20th-Century Japan
PDF
ll: Visual Narratives
lll: Image Galleries
Tokyo Modern
by James T. Ulak
l: Koizumi Kishio’s “100 Views” of the Imperial Capital (1928–1940)
PDF
ll: Koizumi Kishio’s “100 Views,” Annotations & Gallery
lll: “100 Views” by 8 Artists (1928–1932), Image Galleries
China's Modern Sketch
by John A. Crespi
l: The Golden Age of Cartoon Art, 1934–1937
PDF
ll: Nine Thematic Visual Narratives
lll: Image Galleries
Ground Zero 1945
by John W. Dower
Pictures by Atomic Bomb Survivors
PDF
Ground Zero 1945: A Schoolboy’s Story
Testimony of Akihiro Takahashi
Illustrations by Goro Shikoku
PDF
Protest Art in 1950s Japan
by Linda Hoaglund
The Forgotten Reportage Painters
PDF
Tokyo 1960: Days of Rage & Grief
by Justin Jesty
Hamaya Hiroshi's Photos of the Anti-Security Treaty Protests
PDF
