Visualizing modern China : image, history, and memory, 1750-present
by
Cook, James A., editor.
Title
:
Visualizing modern China : image, history, and memory, 1750-present
AsiaWorld
AsiaWorld.
Author
:
Cook, James A., editor.
ISBN
:
9780739190432
9781498501439
Physical Description
:
vii, 313 pages ; 24 cm.
Series
:
AsiaWorld
AsiaWorld.
Contents
:
Introduction / James A. Cook, Joshua Goldstein, Matthew D. Johnson, and Sigrid Schmalzer -- Envisioning the spectacle of Emperor Qianlong's tours of southern China : an exercise in historical imagination / Michael G. Chang -- In the eyes of the beholder : rebellion as visual experience / Cecily McCaffrey -- Yangliuqing New Year's picture : the fortune of a folk tradition / Madeleine Yue Dong -- Monumentality in nationalist Nanjing : Purple Mountain's changing views / Charles D. Musgrove -- "The me in the mirror" : a narrative of voyeurism and discipline in women's physical culture, 1921-1937 / Andrew D. Morris -- Rethinking "China" : overseas Chinese and China's modernity / James A. Cook -- The myth about Chinese Leftist cinema / Zhiwei Xiao -- Imagining the refugee : the emergence of a state welfare system in the War of Resistance / Lu Liu -- Revolutionary real estate : envisioning space in communist Dalian / Christian Hess -- Spatial profiling : seeing rural and urban in Mao's China / Jeremy Brown -- Cinema and propaganda during the Great Leap Forward / Matthew D. Johnson -- Images, memories and lives of sent-down youth in Yunnan / Xiaowei Zheng -- Wild pandas, wild people : two views of wilderness in Deng-era China / Sigrid Schmalzer and E. Elena Songster -- Contextualizing the visual and virtual realities of Expo 2010 / Susan R. Fernsebner.
Abstract
:
"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.
Subject Term
:
Popular culture -- China -- History.
Visual communication -- China -- History.
Arts, Chinese -- History.
Memory -- Social aspects -- China -- History.
Geographic Term
:
China -- Intellectual life.
China -- Social life and customs.
China -- Social conditions.
Added Author
:
Cook, James A.,
Goldstein, Joshua L.,
Johnson, Matthew D.,
Schmalzer, Sigrid,
Bibliographical References
:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805
:
npmlib 10900689 DS727 V57 ysh
| Library | Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Copy | Material Type | Status |
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| NPM Library | DS727 V57 2014 | 10900689 | 1 | B | *二館西文書一區 |