{"title":"Reconcile the past with the present by pranking on April Fool’s Day? A critical reflection on the Operation Bust of NTU History Gallery","authors":"P. Chen, Yi-Jia Huang","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2023.2188476","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT To pique the interest of local audiences in learning the pre-WWII history of National Taiwan University (NTU) and facilitate the dialogue between different ideologists on protecting colonial heritage, the History Gallery of NTU conceived an April Fool’s prank revolving around the sculpted representations of Japanese colonial figures in Taiwan. The main plotline is based on an actual historical event of a bust-unveiling ceremony for president Shidehara, the first president of the antecedent of NTU—Taihoku Imperial University. The prank began with systemic dissemination of the news regarding the finding of a head sculpture of Viscount Kodama Gentarō, culminated in an announcement of a serendipitous discovery of the bust for president Shidehara on April Fool’s Day, and ended by recounting the stories of rescuing the busts for Dr Hidetaka and Dr Tomoe. Despite drawing some criticism, the Gallery was acclaimed by many for its originality, responsiveness, and thoroughness in the campaign.","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2023.2188476","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT To pique the interest of local audiences in learning the pre-WWII history of National Taiwan University (NTU) and facilitate the dialogue between different ideologists on protecting colonial heritage, the History Gallery of NTU conceived an April Fool’s prank revolving around the sculpted representations of Japanese colonial figures in Taiwan. The main plotline is based on an actual historical event of a bust-unveiling ceremony for president Shidehara, the first president of the antecedent of NTU—Taihoku Imperial University. The prank began with systemic dissemination of the news regarding the finding of a head sculpture of Viscount Kodama Gentarō, culminated in an announcement of a serendipitous discovery of the bust for president Shidehara on April Fool’s Day, and ended by recounting the stories of rescuing the busts for Dr Hidetaka and Dr Tomoe. Despite drawing some criticism, the Gallery was acclaimed by many for its originality, responsiveness, and thoroughness in the campaign.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.
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