ABSTRACT This article uses 1910 Japan–British Exhibition as a case study for examining the strategies employed by Japanese leaders to win Western acceptance for Japan as a ‘great power’ in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Like other contemporaneous imperial powers, Japanese leaders employed colonial imagery and discourses of otherness at large expositions to raise their status compared to ostensibly inferior colonised peoples. This article argues that contrary to some previous assertions, Japan presented its history and traditional culture at Western expositions not as an intentional concession to Western Orientalism but rather in an attempt to show that an alternative path to modernity was possible. Though largely successful in winning Western recognition as an important empire, Japanese leaders were nonetheless unable to fully escape becoming victim to the very colonial tools they sought to employ.

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走向世界：日本在 1910 年日英展览会上对殖民意象的操纵

摘要 本文以 1910 年的日英展览会为例，研究日本领导人在 19 世纪末和 20 世纪初为赢得西方对日本作为“大国”的接受而采用的策略。与同时代的其他帝国主义强国一样，日本领导人在大型博览会上使用殖民意象和关于他者的话语来提高他们与表面上劣等的殖民地人民相比的地位。本文认为，与之前的一些断言相反，日本在西方博览会上展示其历史和传统文化并不是有意向西方东方主义让步，而是试图表明通往现代性的替代道路是可能的。虽然在很大程度上成功地赢得了西方作为一个重要帝国的认可，