Developing Mission : Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China /

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"A transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses-reconstructing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations. It illuminates the centrality of visual practices in modern American missionary experiences and representations of Chi...

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Autor principal: Ho, Joseph W., 1987- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Vernacular photography.
Photography > Social aspects.
Photography.
Missions, American.
Christianity.
Amateur films.
Christianity > China > 20th century.
Amateur films > China > History > 20th century.
Photography > China > History > 20th century.
Photography > Social aspects > China > History > 20th century.
Vernacular photography > China > History > 20th century.
Missions, American > China > History > 20th century.
China.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : All Things Visible and Invisible
  • New Lives, New Optics : Missionary Modernity and Visual Practices in Interwar Republican China
  • Converting Visions : Photographic Mediations of Catholic Identity in West Hunan, 1921-1929
  • The Movie Camera and the Mission : Vernacular Filmmaking as China-US Bridge, 1931-1936
  • Chaos in Three Frames : Fragmented Imaging and the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
  • Memento Mori : Loss, Nostalgia, and the Future in Postwar Missionary Visuality
  • Epilogue : Latent Images.

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