Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 364 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780231549714
Series Statement:
Global Chinese Culture
Content:
Shengqing Wu explores how the new medium of photography was transformed by Chinese aesthetic culture. She details the complex negotiations between poetry and photography in the late Qing and early Republican eras, examining the ways traditional textual forms collaborated with the new visual culture.
Content:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Refashioning the Self -- 1. Multiplying the Self: Staging Fantasies and Cultural Personas -- 2. Envoicing the Paper Mirror: Autobiographical Moments -- Part II: Emotions in Transit -- 3. The Social Life of Emotions: Photography and the Singularity of the Gift -- 4. Summoning Zhenzhen: Circulation of the Tropes of the Beauty, the Skull, and the Nude -- Part III: Worldly and Otherworldly Visions -- 5. In Search of Soul: Psychical Studies and Spirit Photography -- 6. The Shadows of Poetry: Mediating "Interior Landscapes" -- 7. Inscribing Remembrance: Lyrical and Technological Envisioning of the Past -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231192200
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231192217
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wu, Shengqing Photo poetics New York : Columbia University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780231192200
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231192217
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/wu--19220
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231549714
