The Distorting Mirror : : Visual Modernity in China / / Laikwan Pang.
The Distorting Mirror analyzes the multiple and complex ways in which urban Chinese subjects saw themselves interacting with the new visual culture that emerged during the turbulent period between the 1880s and the 1930s. The media and visual forms examined include lithography, photography, advertis...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 60 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- contents
- acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I : The Pictorial
- chapter one .The Pictorial Turn and the Realist Desire
- Chapter Two. Photography, Performance, and the Making of Female Images
- Chapter Three. Advertising and the Visual Display of Women
- PART II: The Theatrical
- Chapter Four. Peking Opera, from Listening to Watching
- Chapter Five. Walking into and out of China's Early Film Scene
- Chapter Six. Magic and Modernity
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR