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Republican lens : gender, visuality, and experience in the early Chinese periodical press / / Joan Judge



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Autore: Judge Joan <1958-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Republican lens : gender, visuality, and experience in the early Chinese periodical press / / Joan Judge Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 p.)
Disciplina: 951.04/1
Soggetto topico: Women - China - Social conditions - 20th century
Periodicals - Publishing - China - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: China History Republic, 1912-1949
China Social conditions 1912-1949
Soggetto non controllato: 20th century asian history
20th century chinese history
china
chinese revolution
commercial culture
commercial press
gender studies
gender trends
government and governing
historical
history
journal funu shibao
last imperial dynasty
modernization of china
national unity
nationalism
new national government
political power
qing dynasty
republic of china
republicanism
retrospective
revolution of 1911
revolution
revolutionaries
social change
womens eastern times
wuchang uprising
xinhai revolution
Classificazione: LB 44440
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Republican Lens -- 1. Text and Method -- 2. Republican Ladies -- 3. Everyday Experience -- 4. Public Bodies -- 5. Practical Talent -- 6. Liminal Sexualities -- Conclusion: Aerial Aspirations -- Appendix A: Funü shibao Issue Dates -- Appendix B: Chinese and Japanese Characters For Names and Terms -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: What can we learn about modern Chinese history by reading a marginalized set of materials from a widely neglected period? In Republican Lens, Joan Judge retrieves and revalorizes the vital brand of commercial culture that arose in the period surrounding China's 1911 Revolution. Dismissed by high-minded ideologues of the late 1910's and largely overlooked in subsequent scholarship, this commercial culture has only recently begun to be rehabilitated in mainland China. Judge uses one of its most striking, innovative-and continually mischaracterized-products, the journal Funü shibao (The women's eastern times), as a lens onto the early years of China's first Republic. Redeeming both the value of the medium and the significance of the era, she demonstrates the extent to which the commercial press channeled and helped constitute key epistemic and gender trends in China's revolutionary twentieth century. The book develops a cross-genre and inter-media method for reading the periodical press and gaining access to the complexities of the past. Drawing on the full materiality of the medium, Judge reads cover art, photographs, advertisements, and poetry, editorials, essays, and readers' columns in conjunction with and against one another, as well as in their broader print, historical and global contexts. This yields insights into fundamental tensions that governed both the journal and the early Republic. It also highlights processes central to the arc of twentieth-century knowledge culture and social change: the valorization and scientization of the notion of "experience," the public actualization of "Republican Ladies," and the amalgamation of "Chinese medicine" and scientific biomedicine. It further revives the journal's editors, authors, medical experts, artists, and, most notably, its little known female contributors. Republican Lens captures the ingenuity of a journal that captures the chaotic potentialities within China's early Republic and its global twentieth century.  
Titolo autorizzato: Republican lens  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95993-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826319003321
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Serie: Asia--local studies/global themes ; ; 30.