Developing mission: photography, filmmaking, and American missionaries in modern China

"A transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses-reconstructing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations. It illuminates the centrality of visual practices in modern American missionary experiences and representations of Chi...

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Main Author: Ho, Joseph W. 1987- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London Cornell University Press 2021
Series:The United States in the world
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Summary:"A transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses-reconstructing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations. It illuminates the centrality of visual practices in modern American missionary experiences and representations of China, even as changing Sino-US relations radically transformed the lives of those behind and in front of the lens"--
Physical Description:x, 304 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781501760945
1501760947
9781501761850
1501761854

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