Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present offers a sophisticated yet accessible interpretation of modern Chinese history through visual imagery. With rich illustrations and a companion website, it is an ideal textbook for college-level courses on modern Chinese history and on modern visual culture. The introduction provides a methodological framework and historical overview, while the chronologically arranged chapters use engaging case studies to explore important themes. Topics include: Qing court ritual, rebellion and war, urban/rural relations, art and architecture, sports, the Chinese diaspora, state politics, film propaganda and censorship, youth in the Cultural Revolution, environmentalism, and Internet culture.

Companion website: http://visualizingmodernchina.org

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Yes, you can access Visualizing Modern China by James A. Cook,Joshua Goldstein,Matthew D. Johnson,Sigrid Schmalzer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Asian Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Lexington Books

Year

2014

eBook ISBN

9780739190449

Edition

Topic

History

Subtopic

Asian Art

Index

History

Cover-Page
Half-Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Envisioning the Spectacle of Emperor Qianlong’s Tours of Southern China: An Exercise in Historical Imagination
3 In the Eyes of the Beholder: Rebellion as Visual Experience
4 Yangliuqing New Year’s Picture: The Fortunes of a Folk Tradition
5 Monumentality in Nationalist Nanjing: Purple Mountain’s Changing Views
6 “The Me in the Mirror”: A Narrative of Voyeurism and Discipline in Chinese Women’s Physical Culture, 1921–1937107
7 Rethinking “China”: Overseas Chinese and China’s Modernity
8 The Myth about Chinese Leftist Cinema
9 Imagining the Refugee: The Emergence of a State Welfare System in the War of Resistance
10 Revolutionary Real Estate: Envisioning Space in Communist Dalian
11 Spatial Profiling: Seeing Rural and Urban in Mao’s China
12 Cinema and Propaganda during the Great Leap Forward
13 Images, Memories, and Lives of Sent-down Youth in Yunnan
14 Wild Pandas, Wild People: Two Views of Wilderness in Deng-Era China
15 Contextualizing the Visual and Virtual Realities of Expo 2010
Index
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