Republican Lens - Gender, Visuality, Experience in Early Chinese Periodical Press

Zusatztext "Judge sheds light on how women’s lives were lived and conceptualized in the economically advanced cities of the new Chinese Republic... Republican Lens offers a complex portrait of Chinese urban life in the second decade of the 20th century. . . . Highly Recommended." Informationen zum Autor Joan Judge is Professor at York University. She is the author of The Precious Raft of History: The Past! the West! and the Woman Question in China  and Print and Politics: 'Shibao' and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China .   Klappentext " Republican Lens presents an innovative method of analyzing the commercial press and a sophisticated study of the tensions between the epic and the everyday in the early years of Republican China. Joan Judge gives us a deeper understanding of social changes and the link between gender and modernity through analyzing the subtle changes in everyday life."-Julia F. Andrews! coauthor of  The Art of Modern China "This study is a remarkable achievement. Judge's methodology sets a new standard for scholars studying the commercial press in other periods and countries."-Louise Edwards! author of  Gender! Politics! and Democracy: Women's Suffrage in China Zusammenfassung What can we learn about modern Chinese history by reading a marginalized set of materials from a widely neglected period? This book captures the ingenuity of a journal that captures the chaotic potentialities within China's early Republic and its global twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Joan Judge, Judge Joan
• Verlag: University Of California Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9780520284364
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28436-4
• Seiten: 384
• Serien: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes; Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politisches System; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Political structure & processes, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, Asian History, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Political structure and processes, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions