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Author Zhu, Jing (Historian), author.

Title Visualising ethnicity in the Southwest borderlands : gender and representation in Late Imperial and Republican China / by Jing Zhu
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 312 pages) : illustrations
Series Emotions and states of mind in East Asia ; volume 9
Emotions and states of mind in East Asia ; v. 9.
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"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 2018
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Subject Art and society -- China -- History -- 19th century
Art and society -- China -- History -- 20th century
Minorities -- China, Southwest -- Pictorial works
Minorities in art.
Sex role in art.
Imperialism in art.
Ethnology
Minorities in art
Photography in ethnology
SUBJECT China, Southwest -- In art
Subject China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019055508
ISBN 9789004422766
9004422765