The distorting mirror : visual modernity in China /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pang, Laikwan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Arts, Chinese > 19th century.
Arts, Chinese > 20th century.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Identity (Psychology)
Arts and society.
Arts chinois > 19e siècle.
Arts chinois > 20e siècle.
Modernisme (Esthétique)
Identité (Psychologie)
Arts et société.
ART > Reference.
ART > Performance.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Arts, Chinese.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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