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) ,

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

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	Sep 26 2014
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	1st
Extent	1
ISBN	9798881886486
Imprint	Lexington Books
Illustrations	65 b/w photos;
Series	AsiaWorld
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

James A. Cook

Anthology Editor

Joshua Goldstein

Anthology Editor

Matthew D. Johnson

Anthology Editor

Sigrid Schmalzer

Contributor

Jeremy Brown

Contributor

Michael G. Chang

Contributor

James A. Cook

Contributor

Madeleine Yue Dong

Contributor

Susan Fernsebner

Contributor

Christian Hess

Contributor

Matthew D. Johnson

Contributor

Lu Liu

Contributor

Cecily McCaffrey

Contributor

Andrew D. Morris

Contributor

Charles D. Musgrove

Contributor

Sigrid Schmalzer

Contributor

E. Elena Songster

Contributor

Zhiwei Xiao

Contributor

Xiaowei Zheng

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