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In
Visualizing China, the authors launch a broad inquiry aimed at a synergistic understanding of the story of visuality in modern China. The essays cluster around several nodal points including photographs, advertising, posters and movies, from the 1840s to the 1960s.
About the author
Christian Henriot, Ph.D. (1983) is Professor of Chinese history at University of Lyon and currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France. He is the author and editor of several books, including
Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai, 1849-1949 (Cambridge UP, 2001) and
In the Shadow of the Rising Sun (Cambridge UP, 2004). His latest project is an online research and resource platform on Shanghai history (http: //virtualshanghai.net).
Wen-hsin Yeh, Ph.D. (1984) is Richard H. & Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor in History and Walter & Elise Haas Chair Professor in Asian Studies & Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of
Shanghai Splendor (University of California Press, 2007), and over a dozen other books and edited volumes. Her current project is an intellectual history of modern China that takes into account issues of space, gender, ethnicity.
