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The essays in this volume are organized into two groups: those that consider the use of historical photographs and those that examine the practices of Chinese cinema. They represent a preliminary e...
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The essays in this volume are organized into two groups: those that consider the use of historical photographs and those that examine the practices of Chinese cinema. They represent a preliminary effort to examine pictorial products and public communications of China’s modern period. Drawing on a considerable range of empirical sources, the authors of these essays take up the methodological challenge of pictorial materials for the study of history. The diverse approaches offer a spectrum of methodological possibilities with regard to the use of images in history.
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Price: $32.00
Pages: 284
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: China Research Monograph
Publication Date: 01 May 2012
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781557291011
Format: Paperback
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Christian Henriot is professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Lyon. He specializes in the urban and social history of China, as well as the history of Sino-Japanese conflict. He is the co-founder of the European Journal of East Asian Studies and co-editor of History in Images: Pictures and Public Space in Modern China (IEAS, 2012). Education: M.A., History, Stanford University; Ph.D., New Sorbonne University; State Doctorate, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)

Wen-hsin Yeh is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. She has served as the director of the Institute of East Asian Studies and the chair of the Center for Chinese Studies at Berkeley. She has edited and contributed to many IEAS publications, including Mobile Subjects; Mobile Horizons; History in Images; Cities in Motion; Empire, Nation, and Beyond; Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness; Landscape, Culture, and Space in Chinese Society; and Shanghai Sojourners. Education: B.A., History, National Taiwan University; M.A., History, University of Southern California; Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley

1. Introduction – 1 
    Christian Henriot and Wen-hsin Yeh

2. Wartime Shanghai Refugees: Chaos, Exclusion, and Indignity. Do Images Make up for the Absence of Memory? – 12 
    Christian Henriot

3. Sha Fei, the Jin-Cha-Ji Pictorial, and the Documentary Style of Chinese Wartime Photojournalism – 55 
    Shana J. Brown

4. China, a Man in the Guise of an Upright Female: Photography, the Art of the Hands, and Mei Lanfang's 1930 Visit to the United States – 81 
    Catherine Yeh

5. The Sound of Images: Peddlers’ Calls and Tunes in Republican Peking – 111 
    Feng Yi

6. Never-Ending Controversies: The Case of Chun jiang yi hen and Occupation-Era Chinese Filmmaking – 143 
    Paul G. Pickowicz

7. "The Enemy Is Coming": The 28 January 1932 Attack on Shanghai in Chinese Cinema – 163 
    Anne Kerlan

8. Two Stars on the Silver Screen: The Metafilm as Chinese Modern – 191 
    Kristine Harris

9. Alternative History, Alternative Memory: Cinematic Representation of the Three Gorges in the Shadow of the Dam – 245 
    Sheldon H. Lu

Index – 259