Annika A. Culver, "Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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The Act of Unveileding
These interiors would be a place where you could showcase your treasures and these treasures could be T-bols from the Sung Dynasty, from China that had been passed down from your ancestors. They could also be rare bird specimens which were kept in polonia drawers to prevent them from molding. And so the act of unveiling these was a very intimate experience for people who are interested in what they're seeing. I mean this is how I'm I'm seeing this and it allows them also to speak more freely on other topics, right? It's very hard to do queer history because if you don't have a smoking gun you don’t have letters, even letters were policed
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