Contact Information
Office: East Zone Building E-B-306
Phone: +81-(0)92-802-5004
gloriayangyu@lit.kyushu-u.ac.jp
I am an art and architectural historian of modern Japan. My research focuses on architecture and urbanism in modern Japan, particularly on the exchange of people, materials, and ideas within the Japanese empire during the first half of the twentieth century. My current manuscript project examines Japanese architectural practice and urban culture in colonial Manchuria, primarily focusing on the period before 1932. My broader interests include visual art and culture of the Japanese empire, the urban development of modern East Asia, colonial modernity, memorials and memory, and tourist photography. I teach courses in modern Japanese art and architecture, and the spatial configuration of modern East Asia.
Together with Anton Schweizer, I am a Principal Investigator in the two-year project “Shared Coasts, Divided Historiographies“ (2023-2025) which is funded by the Getty’s Connecting Art Histories program. This project will forge a network of early-career art historians from Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Publications (select):
forthcoming: 2025.3「歴史資料としての満洲の地図」『歴史資料としての視覚文化』東洋英和女学院大学メディア・コミュニケーション研究所、春風社
「反思城市規劃與都市空間研究的烏托邦視角：從歷史地圖考察長春近代都市空間（1899-1932）」peer-reviewed（Revisiting the Utopian Perspectives of Urban Studies: Modern Changchun in Historical Maps (1899-1932) 藝術理論與藝術史研究（11）. 中國社會科學出版社 (2023.12).
「『マンチュリア』に行こう！」第71回SGRAフォーラム 「20世紀前半、北東アジアに現れた『緑のウクライナ』という特別な空間」レポート 31-36. (2023.10)
「圖像與空間：長春近代商埠地的空間形成與發展」peer-reviewed（Imagery and Space: Development of Trading Zone in Modern Changchun）(Peer-Reviewed) 藝術理論與藝術史研究（10）106-124. 中國社會科學出版社 (2022.12).
“Shadows of Urban Utopia: Japanese Housing in Colonial Manchuria,” Proceedings of the 35th Committee International d’Historie de L’Art- Motions (2021.9), 317–322.
“Touring Buildings of Colonial Modernity: Architecture and Tourism in Manchuria (1905-1945),” Proceedings of the EAAC 2015 Gwangju Practical History: History in Practice and Practice in History during the 21st Century (2015.10), 895-898.
Constructing a Manchurian Identity: Architect Endō Arata and Central Bank Club, Modern Art Asia, 73-93, 2012.05.
Organized Symposiums and Workshops (select):
International Symposiums
2023.10.26 Co-Organizer (with Professor Anton Schweizer) of the Getty Opening Event “Shared Coast, Divided Historiographies,” Ito Guesthouse, Kyushu University
2022.2.12~13 Co-organizer (with Professor Anton Schweizer) of the International Symposium “Transcultural Exchanges: Mapping Movement of Art, Ideas, and People in Asia" (Sponsored by IMAP/IDOC and Kyushu University Institute for Asian and Oceanian Studies), online.
2021.3.27 Organizer of the International Symposium “Memory and Material in the Trans-Asian Context " (Sponsored by Kyushu University QR and IMAP), online.
Workshops & Lectures
2023.10.5 Organizer of the Guest Lecture by Sun-ah Choi (Myongji University): “Korea’s Mount Potalaka, Naksan, and the Water-Moon Avalokitesvara of Goryeo Dynasty—A Comparative View,” Kyushu University Ito Campus.
2023.9.16 Panel Chair for “Forces of Political Images,” Intentional WAI Workshop on World Art Studies “Connecting Forces: The Energies of Art,” Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai.
2023.6.29 Organizer of the Guest Lecture by Jordan Sand (Georgetown University): “Ise in the Eternal Present: The Meiji-Period Museification of Shrine Treasures.” Kyushu University.
2022.10.29 Co-organizer (with Magdalena Kolodziej at Toyo Eiwa University) of the Workshop 第18回SGRAカフェ「韓日米の美術史を繋ぐ金秉騏画伯」企画と問題提起：金秉騏の人生と画業. https://www.aisf.or.jp/sgra/active/schedule/2022/17607/
2022.2.18 Organizer of the Online Lecture by Eriko Tomizawa-Kay (University of East Anglia): “Transition from Painted to Painter: The Female Body of Okinawa and its Women.”
2022.1.21 Organizer of the Online Lecture by Magdalena Kolodziej (Toyo Eiwa University) "Constructing the Modern: Japanese Salon Art on Display in Colonial Seoul and Taipei (1922-1945)."
2021.3.19 Organizer of the Online Lecture by Kanahara Noriko (Waseda University) “Defining Refugees: Tatar Muslims in Prewar Japan.”
2021.3.4 Organizer of the Online Lecture by Zhu Ruolin (Tokyo University of Art): “Revisiting Nara Period Techniques: Reproduction of the Eleven-Headed Kannon at Shorin-ji Temple.”