Visualizing Modern China
Image, History, and Memory, 1750-Present
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 26. September 2014
306 pages
978-0-7391-9044-9 (ISBN)
Description
Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750-Present offers a sophisticated yet accessible interpretation of modern Chinese history through visual imagery. With rich illustrations and a companion website, it is an ideal textbook for college-level courses on modern Chinese history and on modern visual culture. The introduction provides a methodological framework and historical overview, while the chronologically arranged chapters use engaging case studies to explore important themes. Topics include: Qing court ritual, rebellion and war, urban/rural relations, art and architecture, sports, the Chinese diaspora, state politics, film propaganda and censorship, youth in the Cultural Revolution, environmentalism, and Internet culture.
Companion website: http://visualizingmodernchina.org
Companion website: http://visualizingmodernchina.org
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
65 b/w photos;
ISBN-13
978-0-7391-9044-9 (9780739190449)
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James A. Cook | Joshua Goldstein | Matthew D. Johnson
Visualizing Modern China
Image, History, and Memory, 1750-Present
Book
09/2014
Lexington Books
€161.93
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Persons
James A. Cook is associate director of the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
Joshua Goldstein is associate professor of history at University of Southern California.
Matthew D. Johnson is assistant professor of East Asian history at Grinnell College.
Sigrid Schmalzer is associate professor of history at UMass Amherst.
Joshua Goldstein is associate professor of history at University of Southern California.
Matthew D. Johnson is assistant professor of East Asian history at Grinnell College.
Sigrid Schmalzer is associate professor of history at UMass Amherst.
Content
Chapter 1: Introduction
James Cook, Joshua Goldstein, Matthew Johnson, Sigrid Schmalzer
Chapter 2: Envisioning the Spectacles of Emperor Qianlong's Tours of Southern China
Michael G. Chang
Chapter 3: In the Eyes of the Beholder: Rebellion as Visual Experience
Cecily McCaffrey
Chapter 4: Yangliuqing New Year's Pictures: The Fortune of a Folk Tradition
Madeleine Yue Dong
Chapter 5: Monumentality in Nationalist Nanjing: Purple Mountain's Changing Views
Charles D. Musgrove
Chapter 6: "The Me in the Mirror": Voyeurism and Discipline in Women's Physical Culture, 1921-1937
Andrew D. Morris
Chapter 7: Rethinking "China": Overseas Chinese and China's Modernity
Jame A. Cook
Chapter 8: The Myth about Chinese Leftist Cinema
Zhiwei Xiao
Chapter 9: Imagining the Refugee: The Emergence of a State Welfare System in the War of Resistance
Lu Liu
Chapter 10: Revolutionary Real Estate: Envisioning Space in Communist Dalian
Christian Hess
Chapter 11: Spatial Profiling: Seeing Rural and Urban in Mao's China
James Cook, Joshua Goldstein, Matthew Johnson, Sigrid Schmalzer
Chapter 2: Envisioning the Spectacles of Emperor Qianlong's Tours of Southern China
Michael G. Chang
Chapter 3: In the Eyes of the Beholder: Rebellion as Visual Experience
Cecily McCaffrey
Chapter 4: Yangliuqing New Year's Pictures: The Fortune of a Folk Tradition
Madeleine Yue Dong
Chapter 5: Monumentality in Nationalist Nanjing: Purple Mountain's Changing Views
Charles D. Musgrove
Chapter 6: "The Me in the Mirror": Voyeurism and Discipline in Women's Physical Culture, 1921-1937
Andrew D. Morris
Chapter 7: Rethinking "China": Overseas Chinese and China's Modernity
Jame A. Cook
Chapter 8: The Myth about Chinese Leftist Cinema
Zhiwei Xiao
Chapter 9: Imagining the Refugee: The Emergence of a State Welfare System in the War of Resistance
Lu Liu
Chapter 10: Revolutionary Real Estate: Envisioning Space in Communist Dalian
Christian Hess
Chapter 11: Spatial Profiling: Seeing Rural and Urban in Mao's China
