03163nam 22003973a 450 991064759980332120230124202121.00-8248-8771-9(CKB)4950000000289924(ScCtBLL)6ded04a4-efef-4989-a663-56d9388a5200(EXLCZ)99495000000028992420211214i20212021 uu enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIconographies of Occupation : Visual Cultures in Wang Jingwei's China, 1939-1945 /Jeremy E. Taylor[s.l.] :University of Hawai'i Press,2021.1 online resourceIconographies of Occupation is the first book to address how the "collaborationist" Reorganized National Government (RNG) in Japanese-occupied China sought to visualize its leader, Wang Jingwei (1883-1944); the Chinese people; and China itself. It explores the ways in which this administration sought to present itself to the people over which it ruled at different points between 1939, when the RNG was first being formulated, and August 1945, when it folded itself out of existence. What sorts of visual tropes were used in regime iconography and how were these used? What can the intertextual movement of visual tropes and motifs tell us about RNG artists and intellectuals and their understanding of the occupation and the war? Drawing on rarely before used archival records relating to propaganda and a range of visual media produced in occupied China by the RNG, the book examines the means used by this "client regime" to carve out a separate visual space for itself by reviving pre-war Chinese methods of iconography and by adopting techniques, symbols, and visual tropes from the occupying Japanese and their allies. Ultimately, however, the "occupied gaze" that was developed by Wang's administration was undermined by its ultimate reliance on Japanese acquiescence for survival. In the continually shifting and fragmented iconographies that the RNG developed over the course of its short existence, we find an administration that was never completely in control of its own fate-or its message. Iconographies of Occupation presents a thoroughly original visual history approach to the study of a much-maligned regime and opens up new ways of understanding its place in wartime China. It also brings China under the RNG into dialogue with broader theoretical debates about the significance of "the visual" in the cultural politics of foreign occupation.History / Asia / ChinabisacshPolitical Science / Political Process / Media & InternetbisacshPolitical Science / PropagandabisacshPolitical scienceHistory / Asia / ChinaPolitical Science / Political Process / Media & InternetPolitical Science / PropagandaPolitical scienceTaylor Jeremy E195298ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910647599803321Iconographies of Occupation2814703UNINA