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History in images : pictures and public space in modern China / edited by Christian Henriot and Wen-hsin Yeh.

Title
  1. History in images : pictures and public space in modern China / edited by Christian Henriot and Wen-hsin Yeh.
Published by
  1. Berkeley : Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, c2012.

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Additional authors
  1. Henriot, Christian.
  2. Yeh, Wen-Hsin.
Description
  1. 277 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. "The astounding visual record left by photographers and filmmakers of modern China constitutes a massive archive that awaits incorporation into historical research on China. This volume's studies by multiple contributors offer potential paths for revising practices in historical inquiry and examine how modern Chinese society expressed itself in visual culture"--Provided by publisher
Series statement
  1. China research monograph ; 66
Uniform title
  1. China research monographs ; no. 66.
Subject
  1. 1900 - 1999
  2. Social conditions
  3. Historiography and photography > China > History > 20th century
  4. Documentary photography > China > History > 20th century
  5. Documentary films > China > History > 20th century
  6. Motion pictures > China > History > 20th century
  7. Visual communication > China > History > 20th century
  8. Popular culture > China > History > 20th century
  9. City and town life > China > History > 20th century
  10. City and town life
  11. Documentary films
  12. Documentary photography
  13. Historiography
  14. Historiography and photography
  15. Motion pictures
  16. Popular culture
  17. Visual communication
  18. Dokumentarfotografie
  19. Dokumentarfilm
  20. Film
  21. Historisches Ereignis
  22. Visuelle Kommunikation
  23. China > Historiography. > 20th century
  24. China > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
  25. China > Social conditions > 20th century
  26. China
Genre/Form
  1. History
  2. Pictorial works
Contents
  1. Wartime Shanghai Refugees : Chaos, Exclusion, and Indignity : Do Images Make up for the Absence of Memory? / by Christian Henriot -- Sha Fei, the Jin-Cha-Ji Pictorial, and the Documentary Style of Chinese Wartime Photojournalism / by Shana J. Brown -- China, a Man in the Guise of an Upright Female : Photography, the Art of the Hands, and Mei Lanfang's 1930 Visit to the United States / by Catherine Yeh -- The Sound of Images : Peddlers' Calls and Tunes in Republican Peking / by Feng Yi -- Never-Ending Controversies : The Case of Chun jiang yi hen and Occupation-Era Chinese Filmmaking / by Paul G. Pickowicz -- "The Enemy Is Coming" : The 28 January 1932 Attack on Shanghai in Chinese Cinema / by Anne Kerlan -- Two Stars on the Silver Screen : The Metafilm as Chinese Modern / by Kristine Harris -- Alternative History, Alternative Memory : Cinematic Representation of the Three Gorges in the Shadow of the Dam / by Sheldon H. Lu.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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