Abstract
Introduction. China Visualised: What Stories do Pictures Tell? - Christian Henriot and Wen-Hsin Yeh List of Illustrations PART I THE CHINA PHOTOGRAPHS: THREE READINGS: The Lives and Deaths of Photographs in Early Treaty Port China - Robert Bickers Obscene Vignettes of Truth. Construing Photographs of Chinese Executions as Historical Documents - Jerome Bourgon Street Culture, Visual Fragments and Everyday Life: Narrating Peddlers in Shanghai Modern - Christian Henriot PART II THE VISIBILITy OF CHINESE WOMEN AND HOME: Portraits of Republican Ladies: Materiality and Representation in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Photographs - Joan Judge Images of Houses, Houses of Images: Some Preliminary Thoughts on a Socio-Cultural History of Urban Dwellings in Pre-1940s Canton - Virgil K.Y. Ho PART III ADVERTISING AND PROPAGANDA: THE VISUAL IN PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS: From Viewing to Reading: The Evolution of Visual Advertising in Late Imperial China - Jen-Shu Wu and Ling-Ling Lien Imagined Communities Divided: Reading Visual Regimes in Shanghai's Newspaper Advertising (1860s-1910s) - Barbara Mittler Contextualising (Propaganda) Posters - Stefan Landsberger The Dialectics of Mao's Images: Monumentalism, Circulation and Power Effects - Pang Laikwan PART IV MOVING PICTURES: Single Women and the Men in their Lives: Zhang Ailing and Post-War Visual Images of the Big Metropolis - Paul Pickowicz and Yap Soo Ei An Ordinary Shanghai Woman in an Extraordinary Time: A View from Post-War Popular Cinema - Fu Poshek Index Plate section
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