Visualising China, 1845-1965
Moving and Still Images in Historical Narratives
Edited by Christian Henriot, University of Lyon and Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California at Berkeley
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Biographical note
Christian Henriot, Ph.D. (1983) is Professor of Chinese history at University of Lyon and currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France. He is the author and editor of several books, including Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai, 1849-1949 (Cambridge UP, 2001) and In the Shadow of the Rising Sun (Cambridge UP, 2004). His latest project is an online research and resource platform on Shanghai history (http://virtualshanghai.net).
Wen-hsin Yeh, Ph.D. (1984) is Richard H. & Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor in History and Walter & Elise Haas Chair Professor in Asian Studies & Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Shanghai Splendor (University of California Press, 2007), and over a dozen other books and edited volumes. Her current project is an intellectual history of modern China that takes into account issues of space, gender, ethnicity.
Wen-hsin Yeh, Ph.D. (1984) is Richard H. & Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor in History and Walter & Elise Haas Chair Professor in Asian Studies & Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Shanghai Splendor (University of California Press, 2007), and over a dozen other books and edited volumes. Her current project is an intellectual history of modern China that takes into account issues of space, gender, ethnicity.
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academic libraries, research institutes, historians, visual studies specialists, China specialists, post-graduate students, undergraduate students,
Table of contents
Introduction. China Visualised: What Stories do Pictures Tell? - Christian Henriot and Wen-Hsin Yeh
List of Illustrations
PART I THE CHINA PHOTOGRAPHS: THREE READINGS:
The Lives and Deaths of Photographs in Early Treaty Port China - Robert Bickers
Obscene Vignettes of Truth. Construing Photographs of Chinese Executions as Historical Documents - Jérôme Bourgon
Street Culture, Visual Fragments and Everyday Life: Narrating Peddlers in Shanghai Modern - Christian Henriot
PART II THE VISIBILITy OF CHINESE WOMEN AND HOME:
Portraits of Republican Ladies: Materiality and Representation in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Photographs - Joan Judge
Images of Houses, Houses of Images: Some Preliminary Thoughts on a Socio-Cultural History of Urban Dwellings in Pre-1940s Canton - Virgil K.Y. Ho
PART III ADVERTISING AND PROPAGANDA: THE VISUAL IN PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS:
From Viewing to Reading: The Evolution of Visual Advertising in Late Imperial China - Jen-Shu Wu and Ling-Ling Lien
Imagined Communities Divided: Reading Visual Regimes in Shanghai’s Newspaper Advertising (1860s–1910s) - Barbara Mittler
Contextualising (Propaganda) Posters - Stefan Landsberger
The Dialectics of Mao’s Images: Monumentalism, Circulation and Power Effects - Pang Laikwan
PART IV MOVING PICTURES:
Single Women and the Men in their Lives: Zhang Ailing and Post-War Visual Images of the Big Metropolis - Paul Pickowicz and Yap Soo Ei
An Ordinary Shanghai Woman in an Extraordinary Time: A View from Post-War Popular Cinema - Fu Poshek
Index
Plate section
List of Illustrations
PART I THE CHINA PHOTOGRAPHS: THREE READINGS:
The Lives and Deaths of Photographs in Early Treaty Port China - Robert Bickers
Obscene Vignettes of Truth. Construing Photographs of Chinese Executions as Historical Documents - Jérôme Bourgon
Street Culture, Visual Fragments and Everyday Life: Narrating Peddlers in Shanghai Modern - Christian Henriot
PART II THE VISIBILITy OF CHINESE WOMEN AND HOME:
Portraits of Republican Ladies: Materiality and Representation in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Photographs - Joan Judge
Images of Houses, Houses of Images: Some Preliminary Thoughts on a Socio-Cultural History of Urban Dwellings in Pre-1940s Canton - Virgil K.Y. Ho
PART III ADVERTISING AND PROPAGANDA: THE VISUAL IN PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS:
From Viewing to Reading: The Evolution of Visual Advertising in Late Imperial China - Jen-Shu Wu and Ling-Ling Lien
Imagined Communities Divided: Reading Visual Regimes in Shanghai’s Newspaper Advertising (1860s–1910s) - Barbara Mittler
Contextualising (Propaganda) Posters - Stefan Landsberger
The Dialectics of Mao’s Images: Monumentalism, Circulation and Power Effects - Pang Laikwan
PART IV MOVING PICTURES:
Single Women and the Men in their Lives: Zhang Ailing and Post-War Visual Images of the Big Metropolis - Paul Pickowicz and Yap Soo Ei
An Ordinary Shanghai Woman in an Extraordinary Time: A View from Post-War Popular Cinema - Fu Poshek
Index
Plate section
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