Modernism, Orientalism, and East Asia

Bush, Christopher

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“…One argument advanced by many global modernist scholars in this regard is that non‐Western modernism should not be understood as belated imitations of Western models. Christopher Bush, for example, repudiates “an essentially diffusionist conception of modernism” that privileges the West as the origin of modernism dictating its “definitions and standards.” Using Japan as an example to dispute such a logic, Bush contends that “[i]n cultural modernism as in socioeconomic modernity,” “it is less a matter of how or when Western models reached Japan than of a more or less simultaneous development that might even show signs of Japanese priority” (Bush, 2013, p. 202). In a similar line of thinking, Susan Stanford Friedman questions the alleged belatedness of non‐Western modernism by postulating what she calls “Tang modernism,” designating “a confluence of aesthetic modernity” produced by “[t]he wide‐scale societal transformations in economic, political, agricultural, family, and religious life during the [Chinese] Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE)” (2015, p. 191).…”

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confidence: 99%

Global modernist studies: Asian perspectives

Zhang

Shin

2023

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Bringing together a polyphony of voices from Asia, this special issue seeks to contribute to a more nuanced picture of modernist histories and practices during both the heyday of modernism in the arts in the early twentieth century and the present day, when the new modernist studies keeps refreshing conceptions of modernism across multiple spatiotemporal scales. With case studies situated in Korea, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and India, the issue aims to be illustrative rather than comprehensive in terms of its focus, scope, and approaches. Addressing conceptual, institutional, and pedagogical aspects of modernist practices across various sites of Asia, this cluster of essays offers new data and fresh perspectives, from which we can examine how an internally diverse region like Asia simultaneously uncovers the intricate complexities of global modernist studies and furnishes possibilities to rethink, or even reshape, its ongoing development.

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Section: Making Belatedness Newmentioning

confidence: 99%