ISBN:
9780520284364
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (377 p)
Series Statement:
Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes v.30
Series Statement:
Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes Ser. v.30
Parallel Title:
Print version Republican Lens : Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press
DDC:
951.04
Keywords:
China ; History ; Republic, 1912-1949
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China ; Social conditions ; 1912-1949
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Periodicals ; Publishing ; China ; History ; 20th century
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Women ; China ; Social conditions ; 20th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 Funü shibao (The women's ea
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Republican Lens; 1. Text and Method; 2. Republican Ladies; 3. Everyday Experience; 4. Public Bodies; 5. Practical Talent; 6. Liminal Sexualities; Conclusion: Aerial Aspirations; Appendix A: Funü shibao Issue Dates; Appendix B: Chinese and Japanese Characters for Names and Terms; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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