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Visualizing Modern China

Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present

James A. Cook (Anthology Editor) , Joshua Goldstein (Anthology Editor) , Matthew D. Johnson (Anthology Editor) , Sigrid Schmalzer (Anthology Editor) , Jeremy Brown (Contributor) , Michael G. Chang (Contributor) ,
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Visualizing Modern China

Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present

James A. Cook (Anthology Editor) , Joshua Goldstein (Anthology Editor) , Matthew D. Johnson (Anthology Editor) , Sigrid Schmalzer (Anthology Editor) , Jeremy Brown (Contributor) , Michael G. Chang (Contributor) ,
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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

Table of Contents

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

Product details

Published Dec 14 2015
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 306
ISBN 9781498501439
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 65 b/w photos;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series AsiaWorld
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

JC
Anthology Editor

James A. Cook

JG
Anthology Editor

Joshua Goldstein

MJ
Anthology Editor

Matthew D. Johnson

SS
Anthology Editor

Sigrid Schmalzer

JB
Contributor

Jeremy Brown

MC
Contributor

Michael G. Chang

JC
Contributor

James A. Cook

MD
Contributor

Madeleine Yue Dong

SF
Contributor

Susan Fernsebner

CH
Contributor

Christian Hess

MJ
Contributor

Matthew D. Johnson

LL
Contributor

Lu Liu

CM
Contributor

Cecily McCaffrey

AM
Contributor

Andrew D. Morris

CM
Contributor

Charles D. Musgrove

SS
Contributor

Sigrid Schmalzer

ES
Contributor

E. Elena Songster

ZX
Contributor

Zhiwei Xiao

XZ
Contributor

Xiaowei Zheng

Reviews

  • This exceptional book provides a fresh history of modern China, showing how it was shaped by visual experiences. Leading scholars trace the strong connection between image-making and state power from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The essays examine not only artifacts, from folk art to propagandistic cinema, but also how the gaze has been manipulated to create new perceptions of the nation. The book should be read by all who are interested in the relation between vision and power.

    Yomi Braester, University of Washington

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