UID:
almahu_9949701086202882
Format:
1 online resource (xxxiv, 506 pages)
ISBN:
9789004233751
Series Statement:
China studies, v. 23
Content:
How does China project its image in the world? Why and how has the world come to form certain impressions of the Chinese and their way of life? These are issues that preoccupy Chinese citizens in the globalizing 21st century as they travel overseas, riding on the capacity of the country's newly acquired economic power. In Visualizing China , the authors join forces to launch a broader inquiry aimed at a synergistic understanding of the larger story of visuality in modern China. The essays cluster around several nodal points including photographs, advertising, posters and movies, spanning from the 1840s to the 1960s, and devote special attention to modern Chinese practices in the visualization of things Chinese.
Note:
Preliminary Material --
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The Lives and Deaths of Photographs in Early Treaty Port China /
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Obscene Vignettes of Truth. Construing Photographs of Chinese Executions as Historical Documents /
,
Street Culture, Visual Fragments and Everyday Life /
,
Portraits of Republican Ladies /
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Images of Houses, Houses of Images /
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From Viewing to Reading /
,
Imagined Communities Divided /
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Contextualising (Propaganda) Posters /
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The Dialectics of Mao's Images /
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Single Women and the Men in their Lives /
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An Ordinary Shanghai Woman in an Extraordinary Time /
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Index /
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Plate section /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Visualising China, 1845-1965. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012 ISBN 9789004228207
Language:
English
