Visualising China, 1845-1965 moving and still images in historical narratives /
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 acqu...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2013
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| Series: | China Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 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 Construing Photographs of Chinese Executions as Historical Documents / Jérôme Bourgon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 / Christian Henriot
- Portraits of Republican Ladies / Joan Judge
- Images of Houses, Houses of Images / Virgil K.Y. Ho
- From Viewing to Reading / Jen-Shu Wu and Ling-Ling Lien
- Imagined Communities Divided / Barbara Mittler
- Contextualising (Propaganda) Posters / Stefan Landsberger
- The Dialectics of Mao’s Images / Pang Laikwan
- Single Women and the Men in their Lives / Paul Pickowicz and Yap Soo Ei
- An Ordinary Shanghai Woman in an Extraordinary Time / Fu Poshek
- Index / Christian Henriot and Wen-hsin Yeh
- Plate section / Christian Henriot and Wen-hsin Yeh