Visualizing China, 1845-1965: Life/Still Images in Historical Narratives

Name: Visualizing China, 1845-1965: Life/Still Images in Historical Narratives
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ISBN: 9789004228207

ISBN-10: 9004228209

ISBN-13: 9789004228207

Edition: 2012

Authors: Christian Henriot, Wen-Hsin Yeh

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In this work, 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.

Book details

List price: $220.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Binding: Cloth Text
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English



Introduction. China Visualised: What Stories do Pictures Tell?



List of Illustrations



The China Photographs: Three Readings


The Lives and Deaths of Photographs in Early Treaty Port China



Obscene Vignettes of Truth. Construing Photographs of Chinese Executions as Historical Documents



Street Culture, Visual Fragments and Everyday Life: Narrating Peddlers in Shanghai Modern




The Visibility of Chinese Women and Home


Portraits of Republican Ladies: Materiality and Representation in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Photographs



Images of Houses, Houses of Images: Some Preliminary Thoughts on a Socio-Cultural History of Urban Dwellings in Pre-1940s Canton




Advertising and Propaganda: The Visual in Public Communications


From Viewing to Reading: The Evolution of Visual Advertising in Late Imperial China



Imagined Communities Divided: Reading Visual Regimes in Shanghai's Newspaper Advertising (1860s-1910s)



Contextualising (Propaganda) Posters



The Dialectics of Mao's Images: Monumentalism, Circulation and Power Effects




Moving Pictures


Single Women and the Men in their Lives: Zhang Ailing and Post-War Visual Images of the Big Metropolis



An Ordinary Shanghai Woman in an Extraordinary Time: A View from Post-War Popular Cinema



Index Plate section