Visualising ethnicity in the Southwest Borderlands : : gender en representation in Late Imperial and Republican China / / by Jing Zhu.
This book explores the mutual constitutions of visuality and empire from the perspective of gender, probing how the lives of China’s ethnic minorities at the southwest frontiers were translated into images. Two sets of visual materials make up its core sources: the Miao album, a genre of ethnographi...
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| Superior document: | Emotions and states of mind in East Asia ; Volume 9 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Emotions and states of mind in East Asia ;
Volume 9. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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| Summary: | This book explores the mutual constitutions of visuality and empire from the perspective of gender, probing how the lives of China’s ethnic minorities at the southwest frontiers were translated into images. Two sets of visual materials make up its core sources: the Miao album, a genre of ethnographic illustration depicting the daily lives of non-Han peoples in late imperial China, and the ethnographic photographs found in popular Republican-era periodicals. It highlights gender ideals within images and develops a set of “visual grammar” of depicting the non-Han. Casting new light on a spectrum of gendered themes, including femininity, masculinity, sexuality, love, body and clothing, the book examines how the power constructed through gender helped to define, order, popularise, celebrate and imagine possessions of empire. |
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| ISBN: | 9004422765 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Jing Zhu. |