Looking modern : East Asian visual culture from treaty ports to World War II /

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Group Author: Purtle, Jennifer, 1966- (Editor); Thomsen, Hans Bjarne, 1957- (Editor)
Published: Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago : Co-published and distributed by Art Media Resources,
Publisher Address: Chicago :
Publication Dates: [2009]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: 327 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781588861054
1588861058
Index Number: NX180
CLC: J131.09
Call Number: J131.09/L863
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.