Joshua Fogel (Comparative East Asian History, UC Santa Barbara)
| DATE: | Monday, October 4, 2004 |
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| TIME: | 12:00-2:00 p.m. |
| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
| FORMAT: | Brown Bag Lecture |
| SPONSOR: | Center for Japanese Studies |
Takasugi Shinsaku 高杉晋作
『狼煙は上海に揚がる』１９４４年 大映・中華電影／監督：稲垣浩）
The first modern Japan voyage to China took place in 1862. This trip carried 51 Japanese to Shanghai, the first legal touching down of Japanese on Chinese soil in well over two centuries. While the Japanese were present in the city, the Taiping rebels attacked in the outskirts of Shanghai. The experiences of their two months in Shanghai helped shape the course of subsequent Japanese history. Several years ago a joint venture film made in occupied Shanghai and directed by none other than Inagaki Hiroshi was discovered which portrays this mission and the principal actors in it. With eerie precision, the 1944 movie folds seamlessly into the narrative of the 1862 mission.
This event is free and open to the public.
