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Klappentext Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750-Present offers a sophisticated yet accessible interpretation of modern Chinese history through visual imagery. With rich illustrations and a companion website, it is an ideal textbook for college-level courses on modern Chinese history and on modern visual culture. The introduction provides a methodological framework and historical overview, while the chronologically arranged chapters use engaging case studies to explore important themes. Topics include: Qing court ritual, rebellion and war, urban/rural relations, art and architecture, sports, the Chinese diaspora, state politics, film propaganda and censorship, youth in the Cultural Revolution, environmentalism, and Internet culture.Companion website: http://visualizingmodernchina.org Zusammenfassung This book is a teaching textbook for both lower and upper level courses on modern Chinese history and/or modern visual culture. With fourteen chapters of well-illustrated original scholarship! the contributors introduce key themes of modern Chinese history while providing students with critical thinking skills in visual studies and analysis.

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• Assisted by: James A. Cook (Editor), Cook James A. (Editor), Joshua Goldstein (Editor), Joshua S. Goldstein (Editor), Matthew D. Johnson (Editor), Johnson Matthew D. (Editor), Sigrid Schmalzer (Editor), Schmalzer Sigrid (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.02.2016, delayed
• EAN: 9781498501439
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0143-9
• Series: AsiaWorld; AsiaWorld (Paperback); AsiaWorld; AsiaWorld (Paperback)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Asia / China, ART / Asian / General, ART / Asian / Chinese, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, Visual Culture, East Asia, Far East, Asian History, Political Communication, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Oriental art, print media, Asian Studies, Chinese history, Historical Memory