The Distorting Mirror
eBook - PDF

The Distorting Mirror

Visual Modernity in China

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Distorting Mirror

Visual Modernity in China

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Table of contents

  1. contents
  2. acknowledgments
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. PART I : The Pictorial
  5. chapter one .The Pictorial Turn and the Realist Desire
  6. Chapter Two. Photography, Performance, and the Making of Female Images
  7. Chapter Three. Advertising and the Visual Display of Women
  8. PART II: The Theatrical
  9. Chapter Four. Peking Opera, from Listening to Watching
  10. Chapter Five. Walking into and out of China’s Early Film Scene
  11. Chapter Six. Magic and Modernity
  12. Epilogue
  13. Notes
  14. Glossary
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. ABOUT THE AUTHOR