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Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press
Joan Judge
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Description for Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press
Hardback. What can we learn about modern Chinese history by reading a marginalized set of materials from a widely neglected period? This book captures the ingenuity of a journal that captures the chaotic potentialities within China's early Republic and its global twentieth century. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 384 pages, 84 black and white, 8 color. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJC; HBJF; HBTV; JPH; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 654.
What can we learn about modern Chinese history by reading a marginalized set of materials from a widely neglected period? In Republican Lens, Joan Judge retrieves and revalorizes the vital brand of commercial culture that arose in the period surrounding China's 1911 Revolution. Dismissed by high-minded ideologues of the late 1910s and largely overlooked in subsequent scholarship, this commercial culture has only recently begun to be rehabilitated in mainland China. Judge uses one of its most striking, innovative - and continually mischaracterized - products, the journal Funu shibao (The women's eastern times), as a lens onto the early years of ... Read more
What can we learn about modern Chinese history by reading a marginalized set of materials from a widely neglected period? In Republican Lens, Joan Judge retrieves and revalorizes the vital brand of commercial culture that arose in the period surrounding China's 1911 Revolution. Dismissed by high-minded ideologues of the late 1910s and largely overlooked in subsequent scholarship, this commercial culture has only recently begun to be rehabilitated in mainland China. Judge uses one of its most striking, innovative - and continually mischaracterized - products, the journal Funu shibao (The women's eastern times), as a lens onto the early years of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes
Condition
New
Weight
650g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520284364
SKU
V9780520284364
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About Joan Judge
Joan Judge is Professor at York University. She is the author of The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China and Print and Politics: 'Shibao' and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China.
Reviews for Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press
Judge sheds light on how women's lives were lived and conceptualized in the economically advanced cities of the new Chinese Republic ... Republican Lens offers a complex portrait of Chinese urban life in the second decade of the 20th century... Highly Recommended. CHOICE connect Overall, Republican Lens offers a beautifully illustrated and thoroughly detailed look into the print ... Read more