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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The United States in the World
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) :; 22 b&w halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- 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