Developing Mission : : Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China / / Joseph W. Ho.
In Developing Mission, Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space—tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years o...
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Ho, Joseph W., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Developing Mission : Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China / Joseph W. Ho. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (324 p.) : 22 b&w halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The United States in the World Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note to the Reader -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: All Things Visible and Invisible -- 1. New Lives, New Optics: Missionary Modernity and Visual Practices in Interwar Republican China -- 2. Converting Visions: Photographic Mediations of Catholic Identity in West Hunan, 1921–1929 -- 3. The Movie Camera and the Mission: Vernacular Filmmaking as China-US Bridge, 1931–1936 -- 4. Chaos in Three Frames: Fragmented Imaging and the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945 -- 5. Memento Mori: Loss, Nostalgia, and the Future in Postwar Missionary Visuality -- Epilogue: Latent Images -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Developing Mission, Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space—tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Amateur films China History 20th century. Christianity China 20th century. Missions, American China History 20th century. Photography Social aspects China History 20th century. Photography China History 20th century. Vernacular photography China History 20th century. Asian Studies. Film. U.S. History. Photography / History. bisacsh history of visual culture in china, American Protestant and Catholic missionaries in china, cameras in interwar china, international mission photography,. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739084 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110751826 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022 9783110992809 ZDB-23-DPK Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts, Architecture and Design 2022 English 9783110992816 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG print 9781501760945 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501760952?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501760952 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501760952/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note to the Reader -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: All Things Visible and Invisible -- 1. New Lives, New Optics: Missionary Modernity and Visual Practices in Interwar Republican China -- 2. Converting Visions: Photographic Mediations of Catholic Identity in West Hunan, 1921–1929 -- 3. The Movie Camera and the Mission: Vernacular Filmmaking as China-US Bridge, 1931–1936 -- 4. Chaos in Three Frames: Fragmented Imaging and the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945 -- 5. Memento Mori: Loss, Nostalgia, and the Future in Postwar Missionary Visuality -- Epilogue: Latent Images -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- Index |
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