The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds

Pye, Lucian W.; Spence, J. E.

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“…Barbed wire fences, watchtowers, and armed soldiers are often incorporated into paintings as allotopias (a discordant element to what is expected within a genre), often without becoming the thematic focus. For example, Sugimoto's Cezannian-style country recreation scene 11 depicts a military guard in a corner. In this case, the artist relates that he did not know how to answer for his 5-year-old daughter, who did not come home after a picnic [18].…”

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“…Its seed can be identified in what Europe called 'the Yellow Peril' (Figure 3). Anti-Asian sentiment in the U.S. was further intensified by enacting the Chinese Exclusion Act, limiting immigration between 1885 and 1943 [11]. It is also interesting to note that in both images in Fig.…”

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“…The Nisei, their descendants, were continually pressured to assimilate into American culture by minimizing signs of cultural difference and ruling out the Japanese language, which most descendants could not utter fluently. This seems to us a mere consequence in the artistic field of that anti-Asian response due to the migratory flows in America, especially on the Pacific Coast [11], which translated into cases of vandalism, looting, and arson. A paradoxical case is the Hagiwara family, who created a Japanese garden in Golden Gate Park thanks to an agreement with the park's superintendent.…”

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“…(…) My fellow workers were feeling sorry for me; my Caucasian friends were suggesting that I go East; my Japanese American friends were asking me what I would do if all American citizens and aliens of Japanese ancestry were evacuated (…). "[13] (pp [10][11]…”

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Art and the City’s Fiction in Japanese-American internment camps. Sequels for sustainability.

Rodríguez-Cunill¹,

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López-Cabrales³

2023

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In this article, we have tried to answer the questions of how an entire city's fiction was created for the development of Japanese American internment camps and in which way contributions of sustainable crafts and even art could have interceded. To this aim, we have searched the literature and reviewed archives, primarily from the American West Coast. We have found that beyond adaptation to the circumstances, the visual representation of the city's settlement, founding, and daily activities, instead of typical panoptic or somber prisons’ imagery, are depicted in the selected images and that their use precisely fostered its sustainability. This leads us to deduce that a "city fiction" was necessary for such survival and endurance and that its artistic representation was primarily involved in the state's ideological apparatus. On the other hand, fissures subtly seethed the violence exerted in the camps by stealth and in a hidden fashion. We have concluded that artistic activity justified the city's fiction, together with other examples, highlighting the conditions of systemic violence and oppression for the inmates. In this framework, the artworks generated constitute a historical document of sustainability.

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“…The mistreatment of Asian communities in the arts can be traced back to the adverse reactions towards their migration to America, particularly on the Pacific Coast. These reactions resulted in acts of destruction such as vandalism, theft, and arson (Spence 1998). The Hagiwara family presents a paradoxical case, as they were responsible for modifying and maintaining the Japanese garden in Golden Gate Park.…”

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Art and the City Fiction in Japanese American Internment Camps: Sequels for Resiliency

Rodriguez-Cunill,

Cabeza-Lainez,

Lopez-Cabrales

2023

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This article delves into the creation a fictional city solely for the development of Japanese American internment camps and the way in which sustainable arts and crafts played a significant role in ensuring survival in such a hostile environment. To this aim, we searched the literature and reviewed archives, primarily from the American West Coast. We demonstrate that beyond adaptation to the circumstances, the visual representation of the new city’s settlement, founding, and daily activities, instead of adding to the typical panoptic or sombre prison imagery, remains inscribed in the images selected by the inmates, and that the use of such images precisely fostered the inmates’ resiliency. This leads us to deduce that such ’city fiction’ was necessary in this case for survival and endurance, and that its artistic representation was primarily incorporated into the State’s ideological apparatus. On the other hand, occasional fissures subtly seethed with the violence exerted in the camps. In this way, we conclude that the artistic activity itself justified the city fiction, among other situations, revealing the conditions of systemic violence and oppression faced by the internees. Within this framework, we deem that the artworks hereby generated constitute a paramount historical document for resiliency’s sake. The arguments contained herein are still relevant, because everywhere around the world, situations of exclusion and confinement of displaced immigrants, or simply those considered misfits, are repeated time and time again. Nor have we alleviated the issue in any way today, since we disregard the lessons learned from the past.

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The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds

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