Visualizing Modern China

Author : James A. Cook,Joshua Goldstein,Matthew D. Johnson,Sigrid Schmalzer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739190449

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Visualizing Modern China by James A. Cook,Joshua Goldstein,Matthew D. Johnson,Sigrid Schmalzer Pdf

Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present offers a sophisticated yet accessible interpretation of modern Chinese history through visual imagery. With rich illustrations and a companion website, it is an ideal textbook for college-level courses on modern Chinese history and on modern visual culture. The introduction provides a methodological framework and historical overview, while the chronologically arranged chapters use engaging case studies to explore important themes. Topics include: Qing court ritual, rebellion and war, urban/rural relations, art and architecture, sports, the Chinese diaspora, state politics, film propaganda and censorship, youth in the Cultural Revolution, environmentalism, and Internet culture. Companion website: http://visualizingmodernchina.org

Author : Christian Henriot,Wen-hsin Yeh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004228207

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Visualising China, 1845-1965 by Christian Henriot,Wen-hsin Yeh Pdf

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.

Author : Aida Yuen Wong
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789888083893

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Visualizing Beauty by Aida Yuen Wong Pdf

Visualizing Beauty examines the intersections between feminine ideals and changing socio-political circumstances in China, Japan, and Korea during the first half of the twentieth century. Eight essays present a broad range of visual products that informed concepts of beauty and womanhood, including fashion, interior design magazines, newspaper illustrations, and paintings of and by women. Studying "Traditional Woman" and "New Woman" as historical categories, this anthology contemplates the complex relations between feminine subjectivity and the promotion of modernity, commerce, and colonialism.

Author : Bruce A. Elleman,S. C. M. Paine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538103876

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Modern China by Bruce A. Elleman,S. C. M. Paine Pdf

Now in a fully updated edition, this accessible text provides a balanced history of modern China in a global context. The authors focus especially on China’s culture, warfare, and immediate neighbors and provide a unique comparative approach to bridge the cultural divide separating Chinese history from Western readers trying to understand it.

Author : Andrew Graciano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351004008

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Visualizing the Body in Art, Anatomy, and Medicine since 1800 by Andrew Graciano Pdf

This book expands the art historical perspective on art’s connection to anatomy and medicine, bringing together in one text several case studies from various methodological perspectives. The contributors focus on the common visual and bodily nature of (figural) art, anatomy, and medicine around the central concept of modeling (posing, exemplifying and fabricating). Topics covered include the role of anatomical study in artistic training, the importance of art and visual literacy in anatomical/medical training and in the dissemination (via models) of medical knowledge/information, and artistic representations of the medical body in the contexts of public health and propaganda.

Author : Rebecca E. Karl
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788735605

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China's Revolutions in the Modern World by Rebecca E. Karl Pdf

China's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation's "great rejuvenation," a story narrated as the return of China to its "rightful" place at the center of the world. In China's Revolutions in the Modern World, historian Rebecca E. Karl argues that China's contemporary emergence is best seen not as a "return," but rather as the product of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activity and imaginings. From the Taipings in the mid-nineteenth century through nationalist, anti-imperialist, cultural, and socialist revolutions to today's capitalist-inflected Communist State, modern China has been made in intellectual dissonance and class struggle, in mass democratic movements and global war, in socialism and anti-socialism, in repression and conflict by multiple generations of Chinese people mobilized to seize history and make the future in their own name. Through China's successive revolutions, the contours of our contemporary world have taken shape. This brief interpretive history shows how.

Author : Immanuel Chung-yueh Hsu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:848199211

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The Rise of Modern China by Immanuel Chung-yueh Hsu Pdf

Author : Khoon Choy Lee
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789812566188

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Pioneers of Modern China by Khoon Choy Lee Pdf

Amongst the Chinese exists great cultural variety and diversity. The Cantonese care more for profit than face and are good businessmen, whereas Fujian R‚n are frank, blunt and outspoken but daring and generous. Beijing R‚n are more aristocratic and well-mannered, having stayed in a city ruled by emperors of different dynasties. Shanghai R‚n are more enterprising, adventurous and materialistic but less aristocratic, having been at the center of pre-war gangsterism. Hainan R‚n are straightforward, blunt and stubborn. Hunan R‚n are more warlike and have produced more marshals and generals than any other province.Pioneers of Modern China is a fascinating book that paints a vivid picture of the unique cultural characteristics and behavior of the Chinese in the various provinces. Using leaders in the modern history of China, such as Sun Yat Sen, Chiang Kai Shek, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao as representatives, it offers an in-depth look into the psyche of the Chinese people. It also pays tribute to writers, painters and kungfu experts, who have helped to develop the country socially and artistically.

Author : Kenneth Scott Latourette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1417546655

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A History of Modern China by Kenneth Scott Latourette Pdf

Author : Jeremy Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107024045

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City Versus Countryside in Mao's China by Jeremy Brown Pdf

A powerful work of grassroots history, tracing China's rural-urban divide back to the policies of Mao Zedong, which pitted city dwellers against villagers.

Author : Rana Mitter
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1402768931

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Modern China by Rana Mitter Pdf

A brief introduction to the history, politics, society, and culture of China.

Author : Helena F. S. Lopes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009311779

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Neutrality and Collaboration in South China by Helena F. S. Lopes Pdf

The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last European colonial settlement in East Asia and a territory at the crossroads of different empires. In this highly original study, Helena F. S. Lopes analyses the layers of collaboration that developed from neutrality in Macau during the Second World War. Exploring the intersections of local, regional and global dynamics, she unpacks the connections between a plurality of actors with competing and collaborative interests, including Chinese Nationalists, Communists and collaborators with Japan, Portuguese colonial authorities and British and Japanese representatives. Lopes argues that neutrality eased the movement of refugees of different nationalities who sought shelter in Macau during the war and that it helped to guarantee the maintenance of two remnants of European colonialism – Macau and Hong Kong. Drawing on extensive research from multilingual archival material from Asia, Europe, Australasia and America, this book brings to light the multiple global connections framing the experiences of neutrality and collaboration in the Portuguese-administered enclave of Macau.

Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 1861890087

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Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China by Craig Clunas Pdf

Pictures were a major source of consumable luxury at this period; pictures not only in the form of independently circulating images classifiable as 'art', but also in the form of wall decoration, in books, prints, maps, 'pictures' on ceramics and lacquer boxes, on textile furnishings, and even on the dress of the prosperous. Artefacts that had previously been decorated with formal patterns, or with plants and animals only, now bore landscape scenes, representations of historical characters and incidents, and scenes from literature, often closely related to the world of the illustrated book.

Author : David Nelson Rowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:935230092

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Modern China by David Nelson Rowe Pdf

Author : John Brewer,Neil Fromer,Fredrik Albritton Jonsson,Frank Trentmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781350040922

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Scarcity in the Modern World by John Brewer,Neil Fromer,Fredrik Albritton Jonsson,Frank Trentmann Pdf

Scarcity in the Modern World brings together world-renowned scholars in an open access book to examine how concerns about the scarcity of environmental resources such as water, food, energy and materials have developed, and subsequently been managed, from the 18th to the 21st century. These multi-disciplinary contributions situate contemporary concerns about scarcity within their longer history, and address recent forecasts and debates surrounding the future scarcity of fossil fuels, renewable energy and water up to 2075. This book offers a fresh way of tackling the current challenge of meeting global needs in an increasingly resource-stressed environment. By bringing together scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, this volume provides an innovative multi-disciplinary perspective that corrects previous scholarship which has discussed scientific and cultural issues separately. In doing so, it recognizes that this challenge is complex and cannot be addressed by a single discipline, but requires a concerted effort to think about its political and social, as well as technical and economic dimensions. This volume is essential for all students and scholars of environmental and economic history. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.