The Distorting Mirror: Visual Modernity in China 9780824864675

Table of contents :
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

Polecaj historie

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