Developing mission : photography, filmmaking, and American missionaries in modern China / Joseph W. Ho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ho, Joseph W., 1987- author.

Series:

United States in the world.

Cornell scholarship online.

The United States in the world

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions, American--China--History--20th century.

Missions, American.

Vernacular photography--China--History--20th century.

Vernacular photography.

Photography--Social aspects--China--History--20th century.

Photography.

Photography--China--History--20th century.

Amateur films--China--History--20th century.

Amateur films.

Christianity--China--20th century.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 304 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space-tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China.

Contents:

Introduction : All Things Visible and Invisible

New Lives, New Optics : Missionary Modernity and Visual Practices in Interwar Republican China

Converting Visions : Photographic Mediations of Catholic Identity in West Hunan, 1921-1929

The Movie Camera and the Mission : Vernacular Filmmaking as China-US Bridge, 1931-1936

Chaos in Three Frames : Fragmented Imaging and the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945

Memento Mori : Loss, Nostalgia, and the Future in Postwar Missionary Visuality

Epilogue : Latent Images.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 3, 2022).

ISBN:

9781501760969

1-5017-6094-7

1-5017-6096-3

OCLC:

1249710952