Format:
1 online resource (540 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789004233751
Series Statement:
China Studies v.23
Content:
In Visualizing China, the authors launch a broad inquiry aimed at a synergistic understanding of the story of visuality in modern China. The essays cluster around several nodal points including photographs, advertising, posters and movies, from the 1840s to the 1960s.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- introduction China visualised: what stories do pictures tell? -- Christian Henriot and Wen-hsin Yeh -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- Part I -- The China Photographs: Three Readings -- The lives and deaths of photographs in early treaty port China -- Robert Bickers -- Obscene vignettes of truth Construing photographs of Chinese executions as historical documents -- Jérôme Bourgon -- Street culture, visual fragments and everyday life: Narrating peddlers in Shanghai Modern -- Christian Henriot -- Part II -- The Visibility of Chinese Women and Home -- PORTRAITS OF REPUBLICAN LADIES: MATERIALITY AND REPRESENTATION IN EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHS -- Joan Judge -- Images of houses, houses of images: some preliminary thoughts on a socio-cultural history of urban dwellings in pre-1940s Canton -- Virgil Kit-yiu Ho -- Part III -- Advertising and Propaganda: the Visual in Public Communications -- From viewing to reading: the evolution of visual advertising in late Imperial China -- Wu Jen-shu and Ling-ling Lien -- Imagined communities divided: reading visual regimes in Shanghai's newspaper advertising (1860s-1910s) -- Barbara Mittler -- Contextualising (propaganda) posters -- Stefan Landsberger -- The dialectics of Mao's images: monumentalism, circulation and power effects -- Pang Laikwan -- Part IV -- Moving Pictures -- Single women and the men in their lives: Zhang Ailing and post-war visual images of the big metropolis -- Paul Pickowicz and Yap Soo Ei -- An ordinary Shanghai woman in an extraordinary time: A view from post-war popular cinema -- Fu Poshek -- INDEX.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004228207
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Visualising China, 1845-1965 Leiden : Brill, 2013 ISBN 9789004228207
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004228209
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
General works
Keywords:
Visuelle Medien
;
Visuelle Kommunikation
;
China
;
Geschichtsschreibung
;
Electronic books
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