ISBN:
9781501760952
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (324 p)
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22 b&w halftones
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Series Statement:
The United States in the World
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ho, Joseph W., 1987 - Developing mission
Keywords:
Amateur films History 20th century
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Christianity 20th century
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Missions, American History 20th century
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Photography Social aspects 20th century
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History
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Photography History 20th century
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Vernacular photography History 20th century
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Photography / History
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history of visual culture in china, American Protestant and Catholic missionaries in china, cameras in interwar china, international mission photography
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Geschichte 1920-1960
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Geschichte 1920-1960
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China
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Fotografie
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Film
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Dokumentarfilm
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Amateurfotografie
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Amerikaner
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Missionar
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Mission
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note to the Reader -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: All Things Visible and Invisible -- 1. New Lives, New Optics: Missionary Modernity and Visual Practices in Interwar Republican China -- 2. Converting Visions: Photographic Mediations of Catholic Identity in West Hunan, 1921-1929 -- 3. The Movie Camera and the Mission: Vernacular Filmmaking as China-US Bridge, 1931-1936 -- 4. Chaos in Three Frames: Fragmented Imaging and the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- 5. Memento Mori: Loss, Nostalgia, and the Future in Postwar Missionary Visuality -- Epilogue: Latent Images -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- Index
Abstract:
In Developing Mission, Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space-tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781501760952
URL:
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