Visualizing modern China : image, history, and memory, 1750-present

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Label

Visualizing modern China : image, history, and memory, 1750-present

Title remainder

image, history, and memory, 1750-present

Statement of responsibility

edited by James A. Cook, Joshua Goldstein, Matthew D. Johnson, and Sigrid Schmalzer

Contributor

• Johnson, Matthew D.
• Goldstein, Joshua L.
• Schmalzer, Sigrid
• Cook, James A.

Editor

• Goldstein, Joshua L.
• Cook, James A.
• Schmalzer, Sigrid
• Johnson, Matthew D.

Subject

• China -- Intellectual life
• Arts, Chinese -- History
• China -- Social conditions
• China -- Social life and customs
• Memory -- Social aspects -- China -- History
• Popular culture -- China -- History
• Visual communication -- China -- History

Language

eng

Summary

"This book is a teaching textbook for both lower and upper level courses on modern Chinese history and/or modern visual culture. The introduction provides an overview of key issues in the development of visual culture in China over the last 200-300 years, while each chapter is an original scholarly study of a specific topic providing chronological coverage for that period. Topics include: Qing court ritual, peasant rebellions, folk art, modern urban media such as illustrated sports magazines and movies, Great Leap Forward film, visual commemorations of the Cultural Revolution, and the Shanghai 2010 expo"--Provided by publisher

Member of

• AsiaWorld

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

951

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DS727

LC item number

.V57 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

AsiaWorld