Visualising ethnicity in the Southwest borderlands :: gender and representation in Late Imperial and Republican China /

"This book explores the mutual constitutions of visuality and empire from the perspective of gender, probing how the lives of China's ethnic minorities at the southwest frontiers were translated into images. Two sets of visual materials make up its core sources: the Miao album, a genre of...

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Main Author: Zhu, Jing (Historian) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Series:Emotions and states of mind in East Asia ; v. 9.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"This book explores the mutual constitutions of visuality and empire from the perspective of gender, probing how the lives of China's ethnic minorities at the southwest frontiers were translated into images. Two sets of visual materials make up its core sources: the Miao album, a genre of ethnographic illustration depicting the daily lives of non-Han peoples in late imperial China, and the ethnographic photographs found in popular Republican-era periodicals. It highlights gender ideals within images and develops a set of "visual grammar" of depicting the non-Han. Casting new light on a spectrum of gendered themes, including femininity, masculinity, sexuality, love, body and clothing, the book examines how the power constructed through gender helped to define, order, popularise, celebrate and imagine possessions of empire"--
Item Description:Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 2018.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 312 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004422766
9004422765

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