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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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures
  • The Chinese Imperial Model in the Southwest Borderland: Gender, Visuality and Transitions
  • Gender Inversion and the Power of Representation: Imagining and Visualising Ethnic Minority Women’s Masculinity
  • Dancing in the Moonlight: Fashioning Sexuality of Non-Han People
  • Yiguan Zhuangmao 衣冠狀貌 (Clothes, Hat, and Physical Body): Materialising and Symbolising Human Variations
  • Imperial Images? Rethinking Miao Albums and Ethnographic Photography
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Table of Miao Albums with Collection Date and Original Collector
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.