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Pang, Laikwan,

The distorting mirror : visual modernity in China / Laikwan Pang. - viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-272) and index.

Introduction -- The PictorialThe Pictorial Turn and the Realist Desire -- Photography, Performance, and the Making of Female Images -- Advertising and the Visual Display of Women -- The TheatricalPeking Opera, from Listening to Watching -- Walking into and out of China's Early Film Scene -- Magic and Modernity -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary.

ISBN: 0824830938 9780824830939

LCCN: 2007023712

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Arts, Chinese--19th century
Arts, Chinese--20th century
Modernism (Aesthetics)--China
Identity (Psychology)--China
Arts and society--China

LC Class. No.: NX583.A1 / P35 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 700.95109034