Author

Publication

2020 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

82,500 words, Guess

Page Count

330 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-109004422757
  • ISBN-139789004422759
  • Library of Congress Control Number2019055507
  • OCLC Control Number1127666409
  • Better World Books9789004422759
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Classifications

  • LCCN72.S6Z49 2020
  • LCCN72.S6 Z49 2020

Description

"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"--

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