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Visualizing Modern China

Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present
Buch | Softcover
306 Seiten
2015
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0143-9 (ISBN)
57,35 inkl. MwSt
This book is a teaching textbook for both lower and upper level courses on modern Chinese history and/or modern visual culture. With fourteen chapters of well-illustrated original scholarship, the contributors introduce key themes of modern Chinese history while providing students with critical thinking skills in visual studies and analysis.
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

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.

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
Jeremy Brown
Chapter 12: Cinema and Propaganda during the Great Leap Forward
Matthew Johnson
Chapter 13: Images, Memories and Lives, of Sent-down Youth in Yunnan
Zheng Xiaowei
Chapter 14: Wild Pandas, Wild People: Two Views of Wilderness in Deng-Era China
Elena Songster, Sigrid Schmalzer
Chapter 15: Contextualizing the Visual (and Virtual) Realities of Expo 2010
Susan Fernsebner

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie AsiaWorld
Co-Autor Jeremy Brown
Zusatzinfo Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 149 x 232 mm
Gewicht 494 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-4985-0143-5 / 1498501435
ISBN-13 978-1-4985-0143-9 / 9781498501439
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