"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 ch ..."
"Bringing together the work of distinguished China historians, anthropologists, and literary and film scholars, Gender in Motion raises provocative questions about the diversity of gender practices during the late imperial society and the persistence and transformation of older gender ideologies under the conditions of modernity in China. While several studies have investigated gender or labor in late imperial and twentieth century China ..."
Beijing(1st Edition) by MadeleineYueDong, David Strand Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2008 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-24439-8, ISBN: 0-415-24439-0
"The history and present character of the amazing city of Beijing are examined here in this exciting new text."
"During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls wore sexy clothes and high heels; they applied lipstick and other cosmetics. Dressed in provocative attire, in hot pursuit of romantic love, Modern Girls appeared on the ..."
"Is modernity in non-Western societies always an "alternative" modernity, a derivative copy of an "original modernity" that began in the West? No, answer the contributors to this book, who then offer an absorbing set of case studies from modern China to make their point. By focusing on people's ordinary routines of working, eating, going to school, and traveling, the authors examine the notion of modernity as it has been staged in the mi ..."
The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary Photography between France and Africa, 1900-1939 by Simon Dell Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2020 by Leuven University Press ISBN-13: 978-94-6270-215-8, ISBN: 94-6270-215-2
St Antony's Town and Country in China : Identity and Perception by D. Faure , T. Liu 260 Pages, Published 2016 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-1-137-07001-2, ISBN: 1-137-07001-3
At Home in the World Women and Charity in Late Qing and Early Republican China by Xia Shi 287 Pages, Published 2018 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54623-2, ISBN: 0-231-54623-8
Shanghai Future(1st Edition) Modernity Remade by Anna Dr Greenspan Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2014 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-020669-7, ISBN: 0-19-020669-1