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Looking modern : East Asian visual culture from treaty ports to World War II, edited by Jennifer Purtle and Hans Bjarne Thomsen

Work
Publication
Extent
327 p., 32 p. of plates
Contents
  • China
  • Introduction: twin stars of the silver screen and modern looking China / Jennifer Purtle
  • The crisis of the real: portraiture and photography in late nineteenth century Shanghai / Chia-ling Yang
  • Between the boudoir and the global market: Shen Shou, embroidery, and modernity at the turn of the twentieth century / Dorothy Ko
  • Picture calendars in late imperial China: art and commerce / Ellen Johnston Laing
  • An entrepreneur in an "adventurer's paradise": Star Talbot and his innovative contributions to the art business of modern Shanghai / Zaixin Hong
  • Money making nation: picturing political economy in banknotes of the Qing-Republican transition / Jennifer Purtle
  • Renewing, remapping, and redefining Guangzhou, 1910s-1930s / Delin Lai
  • Japan
  • Introduction: looking modern in Japan / Hans Bjarne Thomsen
  • Marketing health and the modern body: patent medicine advertisements in Meiji-Taishō Japan / Susan L. Burns
  • The girl with the horse-dung hairdo / David L. Howell
  • Japan's national treasure system and the commodification of art / Julie Christ Oakes
  • Planes, trains and games: selling Japan's war in Asia / Barak Kushner
  • Capturing visions of Japan's prehistoric past: Torii Ryūzō's field photographs of "primitive" races and lost civilizations (1896-1915) / Hyung Il Pai
Isbn
9781588861054
Instance
Label
Looking modern : East Asian visual culture from treaty ports to World War II
Title
Looking modern
Title remainder
East Asian visual culture from treaty ports to World War II
Statement of responsibility
edited by Jennifer Purtle and Hans Bjarne Thomsen
Title variation
East Asian visual culture from treaty ports to World War II
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Cataloging source
DLC
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
NX180.S6
LC item number
L665 2009
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1966-
  • 1957-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Purtle, Jennifer
  • Thomsen, Hans Bjarne
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Arts and society
  • Arts and society
  • Modernism (Aesthetics)
  • Modernism (Aesthetics)
  • Arts and society
  • Modernism (Aesthetics)
  • Künste
  • Moderne
  • Verwestlichung
  • East Asia
  • China
  • Japan
Label
Looking modern : East Asian visual culture from treaty ports to World War II, edited by Jennifer Purtle and Hans Bjarne Thomsen
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
China -- Introduction: twin stars of the silver screen and modern looking China / Jennifer Purtle -- The crisis of the real: portraiture and photography in late nineteenth century Shanghai / Chia-ling Yang -- Between the boudoir and the global market: Shen Shou, embroidery, and modernity at the turn of the twentieth century / Dorothy Ko -- Picture calendars in late imperial China: art and commerce / Ellen Johnston Laing -- An entrepreneur in an "adventurer's paradise": Star Talbot and his innovative contributions to the art business of modern Shanghai / Zaixin Hong -- Money making nation: picturing political economy in banknotes of the Qing-Republican transition / Jennifer Purtle -- Renewing, remapping, and redefining Guangzhou, 1910s-1930s / Delin Lai -- Japan -- Introduction: looking modern in Japan / Hans Bjarne Thomsen -- Marketing health and the modern body: patent medicine advertisements in Meiji-Taishō Japan / Susan L. Burns -- The girl with the horse-dung hairdo / David L. Howell -- Japan's national treasure system and the commodification of art / Julie Christ Oakes -- Planes, trains and games: selling Japan's war in Asia / Barak Kushner -- Capturing visions of Japan's prehistoric past: Torii Ryūzō's field photographs of "primitive" races and lost civilizations (1896-1915) / Hyung Il Pai
Dimensions
27 cm.
Extent
327 p., 32 p. of plates
Isbn
9781588861054
Isbn Type
(hardcover)
Lccn
2009020927
Other physical details
ill. (some col.)
System control number
  • (OCoLC)349180035
  • (OCoLC)ocn349180035
Label
Looking modern : East Asian visual culture from treaty ports to World War II, edited by Jennifer Purtle and Hans Bjarne Thomsen
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
China -- Introduction: twin stars of the silver screen and modern looking China / Jennifer Purtle -- The crisis of the real: portraiture and photography in late nineteenth century Shanghai / Chia-ling Yang -- Between the boudoir and the global market: Shen Shou, embroidery, and modernity at the turn of the twentieth century / Dorothy Ko -- Picture calendars in late imperial China: art and commerce / Ellen Johnston Laing -- An entrepreneur in an "adventurer's paradise": Star Talbot and his innovative contributions to the art business of modern Shanghai / Zaixin Hong -- Money making nation: picturing political economy in banknotes of the Qing-Republican transition / Jennifer Purtle -- Renewing, remapping, and redefining Guangzhou, 1910s-1930s / Delin Lai -- Japan -- Introduction: looking modern in Japan / Hans Bjarne Thomsen -- Marketing health and the modern body: patent medicine advertisements in Meiji-Taishō Japan / Susan L. Burns -- The girl with the horse-dung hairdo / David L. Howell -- Japan's national treasure system and the commodification of art / Julie Christ Oakes -- Planes, trains and games: selling Japan's war in Asia / Barak Kushner -- Capturing visions of Japan's prehistoric past: Torii Ryūzō's field photographs of "primitive" races and lost civilizations (1896-1915) / Hyung Il Pai
Dimensions
27 cm.
Extent
327 p., 32 p. of plates
Isbn
9781588861054
Isbn Type
(hardcover)
Lccn
2009020927
Other physical details
ill. (some col.)
System control number
  • (OCoLC)349180035
  • (OCoLC)ocn349180035

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