Lisa Yoshikawa is Professor of History and Asian Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and currently a Visiting Researcher at Academia Sinica, Institute of Taiwan History. She studies Japanese empire’s knowledge production, science, and environment, and is working on two book projects: on historical zoo-mapping and coral research.
“Wear flannel…you must wear flannel,” Tada Tsunasuke repeated in his October 1896 report from Taiwan. Tada was the first Japanese zoologist dispatched by