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Visualising China, 1845-1965 : moving and still images in historical narratives
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In Visualizing China, the authors launch a broad inquiry aimed at a synergistic understanding of the story of visuality in modern China. The essays cluster around several nodal points including pho...
In Visualizing China, the authors launch a broad inquiry aimed at a synergistic understanding of the story of visuality in modern China. The essays cluster around several nodal points including photographs, advertising, posters and movies, from the 1840s to the 1960s.
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- Creator
- edited by Christian Henriot and Wen-hsin Yeh
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- Brill e-books
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 9789004233751, 900423375X, 9789004228207, 9004228209, 9789004228207
- OCLC
- ocn820053883
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: China Visualised : What Stories do Pictures Tell? / Christian Henriot and Wen-Hsin Yeh -- Part I. The China Photographs : Three Readings -- Part II. The Visibility of Chinese Women and Home -- Part III. Advertising and Propaganda : The Visual in Public Communications -- Part IV. Moving Pictures
Subjects
- Visual communication -- China -- History -- 19th century.
- Visual communication -- China -- History -- 20th century.
- Historiography and photography -- China -- History.
- Motion pictures -- China -- History.
- China -- History -- 1861-1912 -- Historiography.
- China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949 -- Historiography.
- China -- History -- 1949-1976 -- Historiography.