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2010. 1

Editor's NotE
 Rudolf G. Wagner .02

ArticlEs

 Arjun Appadurai
 How Histories Make Geographies  .04

 Douglas Howland
 Japanese Neutrality in the 19th Century .14
 
   
 Series on Multi-Centred Modernisms—Reconfiguring 
 Asian Art of the twentieth and twenty-First centuries 
 
 Monica Juneja and Franziska Koch
 Introduction .38

 James Elkins
  Writing about Modernist Painting .42

 Gennifer Weisenfeld
 Reinscribing Tradition in a Transnational Art World .78



Transcultural Studies 2010. 1

Transcultural Studies, Vol. 1, 2010, ISSN: Pending.

Editor: Rudolf G. Wagner, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Managing Editor: Andrea Hacker

Editorial Board: 

Christiane Brosius, Harald Fuess, Madeleine Herren, Monica Juneja, Birgit Kellner, 

Joachim Kurtz, Axel Michaels, and Roland Wenzlhuemer.

Transcultural Studies is an open-access e-journal published bi-annually by the 

Cluster of Excellence, “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in 

Cultural Flows“ at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. For more information see: 

www.transculturalstudies.org 

coNtriBUtors to tHis issUE:

Arjun Appadurai is Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at 

New York University. He is a socio-cultural anthropologist and specializes in globaliza-

tion, public culture, and urban studies.

Douglas Howland is David D. Buck Professor of Chinese History at the University of 

Wisconsin, Milwaukee. His main research interests include East Asian westernization, 

international law and state sovereignty in China and Japan, and liberalism and popular 

sovereignty in the nineteenth century.

Monica Juneja is Professor of Global Art History at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität 

Heidelberg’s Cluster of Excellence „Asia and Europe in a Global Context.“ Her research 

focuses on European and South Asian visual representation, issues of comparative and 

transnational histories, religious conversion, gender, and political iconography. 

Franziska Koch is a PhD candidate at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and 

assistant to Monica Juneja. Her dissertation is titled „China(’s) images and the tensions 

of postcolonial art discourse and practices. Contemporary Chinese art and its Western 

reception in the medium of exhibition.“

James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair of the Department of Art History, Theory, 

and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His research focuses on the 

history and theory of images in art, science, and nature.

Gennifer Weisenfeld is Associate Professor of Art History at Duke University, North 

Carolina. Her main field of research is nineteenth- and twentieth century Japanese 

visual culture.