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2024

Journal Article

Book review: Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology. By Annika A. Culver

Low, Morris (2024). Book review: Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology. By Annika A. Culver. Japan Review, 39, 252-254.

Book review: Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology. By Annika A. Culver

2023

Journal Article

Review of Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train By Jessamyn R. Abel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. Pp. ix + 289

Low, Morris (2023). Review of Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train By Jessamyn R. Abel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. Pp. ix + 289. Technology and Culture, 64 (1), 269-271.

Review of Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train By Jessamyn R. Abel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. Pp. ix + 289

2023

Journal Article

Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train

Low, Morris (2023). Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train. Technology and Culture, 64 (1), 269-+. doi: 10.1353/tech.2023.0008

Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train

2020

Journal Article

Book review: Behind the Exhibit: Displaying Science and Technology at World's Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century. Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology, vol. 12. Edited by Elena Canadelli, Marco Beretta, and Laura Ronzon. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2019. Pp. 263.

Low, Morris (2020). Book review: Behind the Exhibit: Displaying Science and Technology at World's Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century. Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology, vol. 12. Edited by Elena Canadelli, Marco Beretta, and Laura Ronzon. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2019. Pp. 263.. Technology and Culture, 61 (4), 1269-1270. doi: 10.1353/tech.2020.0153

Book review: Behind the Exhibit: Displaying Science and Technology at World's Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century. Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology, vol. 12. Edited by Elena Canadelli, Marco Beretta, and Laura Ronzon. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2019. Pp. 263.

2019

Journal Article

[Book Review] Electrified Voices: How the telephone, phonograph, and radio shaped modern Japan, 1868-1945

Low, Morris (2019). [Book Review] Electrified Voices: How the telephone, phonograph, and radio shaped modern Japan, 1868-1945. American Historical Review, 124 (5), 1867-1868. doi: 10.1093/ahr/rhz857

[Book Review] Electrified Voices: How the telephone, phonograph, and radio shaped modern Japan, 1868-1945

2019

Journal Article

Godart, G. Clinton. Darwin, dharma, and the divine: evolutionary theory and religion in modern Japan. x, 301 pp., illus., bibliogr. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. £68.00 (cloth)

Low, Morris (2019). Godart, G. Clinton. Darwin, dharma, and the divine: evolutionary theory and religion in modern Japan. x, 301 pp., illus., bibliogr. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. £68.00 (cloth). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 25 (3), 639-640. doi: 10.1111/1467-9655.13114

Godart, G. Clinton. Darwin, dharma, and the divine: evolutionary theory and religion in modern Japan. x, 301 pp., illus., bibliogr. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. £68.00 (cloth)

2017

Journal Article

Review of Kerry Ross, Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015. Pp. xv, 234

Low, Morris (2017). Review of Kerry Ross, Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015. Pp. xv, 234. American Historical Review, 122 (5), 1596-1597. doi: 10.1093/ahr/122.5.1596

Review of Kerry Ross, Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015. Pp. xv, 234

2017

Journal Article

Contemporary Sino-Japanese relations on screen: a history, 1989-2005

Low, Morris (2017). Contemporary Sino-Japanese relations on screen: a history, 1989-2005. Journal of Japanese Studies, 43 (2), 458-462. doi: 10.1353/jjs.2017.0057

Contemporary Sino-Japanese relations on screen: a history, 1989-2005

2015

Journal Article

American photography during the allied occupation of Japan: the work of John W. Bennett

Low, Morris (2015). American photography during the allied occupation of Japan: the work of John W. Bennett. History of Photography, 39 (3), 263-278. doi: 10.1080/03087298.2015.1064613

American photography during the allied occupation of Japan: the work of John W. Bennett

2015

Journal Article

Review of 'Questioning Science in East Asian Contexts: Essays on Science, Confucianism, and the Comparative History of Science' by Yung Sik Kim

Low, Morris (2015). Review of 'Questioning Science in East Asian Contexts: Essays on Science, Confucianism, and the Comparative History of Science' by Yung Sik Kim. Isis, 106 (2), 415-416. doi: 10.1086/682755

Review of 'Questioning Science in East Asian Contexts: Essays on Science, Confucianism, and the Comparative History of Science' by Yung Sik Kim

2014

Journal Article

Maximum Embodiment: Yōga, the Western Painting of Japan, 1912–1955 by Bert Winther-Tamaki

Low, Morris (2014). Maximum Embodiment: Yōga, the Western Painting of Japan, 1912–1955 by Bert Winther-Tamaki. Asian Studies Review, 38 (4), 700-701. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2014.963916

Maximum Embodiment: Yōga, the Western Painting of Japan, 1912–1955 by Bert Winther-Tamaki

2014

Journal Article

Review of 'The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo.' by Ian Jared Miller

Low, Morris (2014). Review of 'The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo.' by Ian Jared Miller. Isis, 105 (3), 656-657. doi: 10.1086/679160

Review of 'The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo.' by Ian Jared Miller

2014

Journal Article

Hanga: modern Japanese prints

Low, Morris (2014). Hanga: modern Japanese prints. Artlines, 2014 (2), 8-9.

Hanga: modern Japanese prints

2014

Journal Article

In memoriam: Shigeru Nakayama (1928-2014)

Low, Morris (2014). In memoriam: Shigeru Nakayama (1928-2014). Historia Scientiarum, 24 (1), 25-28.

In memoriam: Shigeru Nakayama (1928-2014)

2013

Journal Article

Maki Fukuoka. The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Low, Morris (2013). Maki Fukuoka. The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan. American Historical Review, 118 (4), 1162-1163. doi: 10.1093/ahr/118.4.1162

Maki Fukuoka. The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan

2013

Journal Article

Eco-cities in Japan: past and future

Low, Morris (2013). Eco-cities in Japan: past and future. Journal of Urban Technology, 20 (1), 7-22. doi: 10.1080/10630732.2012.735107

Eco-cities in Japan: past and future

2013

Journal Article

Alexander R. Bay, Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease

Low, Morris (2013). Alexander R. Bay, Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease. Health and History, 15 (2), 123-125. doi: 10.5401/healthhist.15.2.0123

Alexander R. Bay, Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease

2012

Journal Article

Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883-1945

Low, Morris (2012). Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883-1945. Isis, 103 (2), 423-424. doi: 10.1086/667510

Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883-1945

2012

Journal Article

Imperial Japan at its Zenith: the wartime celebration of the empire's 2,600th anniversary

Low, Morris (2012). Imperial Japan at its Zenith: the wartime celebration of the empire's 2,600th anniversary. Japanese Studies, 32 (1), 137-139. doi: 10.1080/10371397.2012.670095

Imperial Japan at its Zenith: the wartime celebration of the empire's 2,600th anniversary

2012

Journal Article

Physical anthropology in Japan: The Ainu and the search for the origins of the Japanese

Low, Morris (2012). Physical anthropology in Japan: The Ainu and the search for the origins of the Japanese. Current Anthropology, 53 (S5), S57-S68. doi: 10.1086/662334

Physical anthropology in Japan: The Ainu and the search for the origins of the Japanese