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The Distorting Mirror : Visual Modernity in China /

The Distorting Mirror analyzes the multiple and complex ways in which urban Chinese subjects saw themselves interacting with the new visual culture that emerged during the turbulent period between the 1880s and the 1930s. The media and visual forms examined include lithography, photography, advertis...

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Autor principal: Pang, Laikwan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2007]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • contents
  • acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I : The Pictorial
  • chapter one .The Pictorial Turn and the Realist Desire
  • Chapter Two. Photography, Performance, and the Making of Female Images
  • Chapter Three. Advertising and the Visual Display of Women
  • PART II: The Theatrical
  • Chapter Four. Peking Opera, from Listening to Watching
  • Chapter Five. Walking into and out of China's Early Film Scene
  • Chapter Six. Magic and Modernity
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR