Selling Happiness : : Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai /

Selling Happiness : : Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai / / Ellen Johnston Laing.

From the early twentieth century until the Communist takeover in 1949, Shanghai commercial artists created thousands of colorful posters and black and white advertisements that formed an essential part of modern life in the city. This visually appealing and richly illustrated work describes the orig...

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Laing, Ellen Johnston,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 149 illus., 37 color
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter One. Introduction
  • Chapter Two. Chinese Popular Prints in Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai
  • Chapter Three. Production and Marketing of Advertisement Calendar Posters in China
  • Chapter Four. Early Calendar Posters and Zhang Zhiying
  • Chapter Five. Shanghai Beauties and Fresh Starts in the Second Decade of the Twentieth Century: Zhou Muqiao
  • Chapter Six. New Techniques and Themes: Zheng Mantuo and Xu Yongqing
  • Chapter Seven. Newspaper Advertisements, Advertisement Calendar Posters, and Chinese Paintings: Xie Zhiguang
  • Chapter Eight. Artists at British American Tobacco: Liang Dingming, Hu Boxiang, Ni Gengye, and Zhang Guangyu
  • Chapter Nine. The Zhiying Studio: Hang Zhiying, Jin Xuechen, and Li Mubai
  • Chapter Ten. Calendar Poster Artists under the People’s Republic of China 1949–1980
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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