Bodies and Structures 2.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History
Bodies and Structures 2.0 (http://bodiesandstructures.org) is a digital platform for researching
and teaching spatial histories of modern East Asia and the worlds of which it has been a part.
The project brings together the various engagements with critical human geography that are
taking place in our fields – history, literature, and art history in general, and East Asian studies in
particular. It consists of 17 individually authored modules, which examine a diverse range of
topics, such as histories of disease and vaccination; narcotics trafficking; colonialism; migration;
and urban life. These modules feature cutting-edge research on Japan (including Okinawa),
Taiwan, China, Vietnam and Mongolia. (See Appendix for a complete list.) On top of this, the
site uses tags, annotations, links, and visualizations to connect and cut across the modules,
giving contributors and users the opportunity to think comparatively about space, place and
power.