Visualizing modern China
Subtitle: image, history, and memory, 1750-present
By: edited by James A. Cook, Joshua Goldstein, Matthew Johnson, and Sigrid Schmalzer
Series: AsiaWorld; AsiaWorld
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780739190432
Subjects: Chinese Arts; Social life and customs; Intellectual life; Popular culture; Visual communication; Memory; Social conditions; History
Description: "This book is a teaching textbook for both lower and upper level courses on modern Chinese history and/or modern visual culture. The introduction provides an overview of key issues in the development of visual culture in China over the last 200-300 years, while each chapter is an original scholarly study of a specific topic providing chronological coverage for that period. Topics include: Qing court ritual, peasant rebellions, folk art, modern urban media such as illustrated sports magazines and movies, Great Leap Forward film, visual commemorations of the Cultural Revolution, and the Shanghai 2010 expo"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / James Cook, Joshua Goldstein, Matthew Johnson, Sigrid Schmalzer; title: Envisioning the spectacles of emperor Qianlong's tours of southern China / Michael G. Chang; title: In the eyes of the beholder : rebellion as visual experience / Cecily McCaffrey; title: Yangliuqing New Year's pictures : the fortune of a folk tradition / Madeleine Yue Dong; title: Monumentality in nationalist Nanjing : Purple Mountain's changing views / Charles D. Musgrove; title: "The me in the mirror" : voyeurism and discipline in women's physical culture, 1921-1937 / Andrew D. Morris; title: Rethinking "China" : overseas Chinese and China's modernity / Jame A. Cook; title: The myth about Chinese Leftist cinema / Zhiwei Xiao; title: Imagining the refugee : the emergence of a state welfare system in the War of Resistance / Lu Liu; title: Revolutionary real estate : envisioning space in communist Dalian / Christian Hess; title: Spatial profiling : seeing rural and urban in Mao's China / Jeremy Brown; title: Cinema and propaganda during the Great Leap Forward / Matthew Johnson; title: Images, memories and lives of sent-down youth in Yunnan / Zheng Xiaowei; title: Wild pandas, wild people : two views of wilderness in Deng-era China / Elena Songster, Sigrid Schmalzer; title: Contextualizing the visual (and virtual) realities of Expo 2010 / Susan Fernsebner; title: About the contributors.