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.
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Arts, Chinese--19th century Arts, Chinese--20th century Modernism (Aesthetics)--China Identity (Psychology)--China Arts and society--China