The East Asian Modern Girl : Women, Media, and Colonial Modernity During the Interwar Years / edited by Sumei Wang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wang, Sumei, 1974- editor.

Series:

Modern Asian art and visual culture ; Volume 6.

Modern Asian Art and Visual Culture Series ; Volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in mass media--History--20th century.

Women in mass media.

Women--East Asia--Social conditions--20th century.

Women.

Women--East Asia--History--20th century.

East Asia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2021]

Summary:

The East Asian Modern Girl reports the long-neglected experiences of modern women in East Asia during the interwar period. The edited volume includes original studies on the modern girl in Taiwan, Korea, Manchuria, Japan, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, which reveal differentiated forms of colonial modernity, influences of global media and the struggles of women at the time. The advent of the East Asian modern girl is particularly meaningful for it signifies a separation from traditional Confucian influences and progression toward global media and capitalism, which involves high political and economic tension between the East and West. This book presents geo-historical investigations on the multi-force triggered phenomenon and how it eventually contributed to greater post-war transformations.

Contents:

Intro

The East Asian Modern Girl: Women, Media, and Colonial Modernity During the Interwar Years

Copyright

Contents

Note to Readers

List of Contributors

List of Figures

1 INTRODUCTION

2 MASS MEDIA AND THE MODERN GIRL IN 1930S COLONIAL TAIWAN

3 PROGRESSIVE OR IMMORAL? REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MODERN GIRL IN PRINT MEDIA OF 1930S TAIWAN

4 MODERNITY THROUGH HETEROGENEITY: HISTORICIZING THE MODERN GIRL IN COLONIAL KOREA

5 URBAN INTRIGUES: CRIME, ROMANCE, AND THE MODERN GIRL IN COLONIAL KOREAN DETECTIVE FICTION

6 COLONIAL MODERNITY, BEAUTY, HEALTH, AND HYGIENE: CENTERING OF JAPANESE COSMETICS, CLEANING SUPPLIES, AND MEDICINE ADVERTISEMENTS IN SHENGJING TIMES (SHENGJING SHIBAO)

7 THE WARTIME MODERN GIRL IN JAPAN: CHANGES IN FEMALE IMAGES IN COSMETIC ADVERTISEMENTS OF HOUSEWIFE'S FRIEND (SHUFU NO TOMO) FROM THE 1930S TO THE 1940S

8 "WOMEN SUCH AS THE DAN" AND A HONG KONG COLONIAL MODERNITY

9 THE FRAMED FEMALE IMAGE: A PICTORIAL SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF CLASSIC SHANGHAI CALENDAR POSTERS DURING THE 1910S-1930S

10 CONCLUSION

Bibliography

Index

PUBLISHED IN MODERN ASIAN ART AND VISUAL.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004470620

900447062X

OCLC:

1266219776