Competing Imperialisms in Northeast Asia
Welcome to the digital exhibitions collection of the Competing Imperialisms Research Network (CIRN).
This site exhibits items connected to the history of imperialism and resistance in Northeast Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Items illustrate geopolitical rivalries, imperialism, nationalism, revolution and war.
The CIRN project is led by Queen's University Belfast and Waseda University, with St Petersburg University. For more about the CIRN project, visit the main project website.
Dr Aglaia De Angeli (PI) and Dr Emma Reisz (Queen’s University Belfast)
Prof. Reiko Tsuchiya (Waseda University) and Prof. Peter O’Connor (Musashino/Waseda)
Featured Item
The Times: Russian Supplement: 'Archangel - An Icebreaker at Work'
The frontcover of The Times' Russian Supplement, No. 16, 15 Jan, 1916. The cover is an engraving by Ulric van den Bogaerde which depicts the Russian…
Featured Collection
Shigeru's Carnet Croquis
Shigeru's carnet croquis, or commonplace book, filled with pen-and-ink drawings, depicts the ambivalences of expatriate life in Japan. The carnet…
Featured Exhibit
Cogs in the Machine of Empire: A journey through Shigeru’s pictorial imagination
Dr. Peter Robinson (Curator) Philip Magowan (Design and Web) Introduction This online exhibition features the work of ‘Shigeru’, one of the legions of...
