History in images
Subtitle: pictures and public space in modern China
By: Christian Henriot, Wen-hsin Yeh
Contributors: Yeh, Wen-Hsin
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781557291011
Subjects: Historiography; Motion pictures; Popular culture; Documentary films; Visual communication; Documentary photography; Historiography and photography; Social conditions; History; City and town life; Pictorial works
Description: "The astounding visual record left by photographers and filmmakers of modern China constitute a massive archive that awaits incorporation into historical research on China. This volume's studies by multiple contributors offer potential paths for revising practices in historical inquiry and examine how modern Chinese society expressed itself in visual culture"--Provided by publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Wartime Shanghai Refugees : Chaos, Exclusion, and Indignity : Do Images Make up for the Absence of Memory? / by Christian Henriot; title: Sha Fei, the Jin-Cha-Ji Pictorial, and the Documentary Style of Chinese Wartime Photojournalism / by Shana J. Brown; title: China, a Man in the Guise of an Upright Female : Photography, the Art of the Hands, and Mei Lanfang's 1930 Visit to the United States / by Catherine Yeh; title: The Sound of Images : Peddlers' Calls and Tunes in Republican Peking / by Feng Yi; title: Never-Ending Controversies : The Case of Chun jiang yi hen and Occupation-Era Chinese Filmmaking / by Paul G. Pickowicz; title: "The Enemy Is Coming" : The 28 January 1932 Attack on Shanghai in Chinese Cinema / by Anne Kerlan; title: Two Stars on the Silver Screen : The Metafilm as Chinese Modern / by Kristine Harris; title: Alternative History, Alternative Memory : Cinematic Representation of the Three Gorges in the Shadow of the Dam / by Sheldon H. Lu.