Ian Jarred Miller, professor of Japanese history at Harvard University, was recently interviewed on New Books in East Asian Studies about his new book, The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo. In this eye-opening study of Japan’s first modern zoo, Tokyo’s Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Miller offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan’s rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world.
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