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The distorting mirror : visual modernity in China / Laikwan Pang.
Loaned to Another Library NX583.A1 P35 2007
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pang, Laikwan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts, Chinese--19th century.
- Arts, Chinese.
- Arts, Chinese--20th century.
- Modernism (Aesthetics)--China.
- Modernism (Aesthetics).
- Identity (Psychology)--China.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Arts and society--China.
- Arts and society.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Part I The Pictorial
- Chapter 1 The Pictorial Turn and the Realist Desire 33
- Chapter 2 Photography, Performance, and the Making of Female Images 69
- Chapter 3 Advertising and the Visual Display of Women 102
- Part II The Theatrical
- Chapter 4 Peking Opera, from Listening to Watching 133
- Chapter 5 Walking into and out of China's Early Film Scene 164
- Chapter 6 Magic and Modernity 184.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0824830938
- 9780824830939
- OCLC:
- 144547917
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