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Revolutionary Photojournalism: Framing a New China, 1905-1919

Revolutionary Photojournalism: Framing a New China, 1905-1919

Pra Floriani, Giulia

Hardcover

Series: Modern Asian Art and Visual Culture, Book 13

General Photography

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ISBN10: 9004777040
ISBN13: 9789004777040
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China, a sociopolitical and a visual revolution unfolded simultaneously, each shaping the other. This book argues that early Chinese revolutionaries from the late Qing period through the May Fourth Movement used photojournalism as a temporal intervention to shatter the visual stagnation of nineteenth-century studio photography, pulling China out of an ossified past and demanding recognition as a modern nation on the global stage. Capturing and fueling protest against both the ruling Qing dynasty and foreign imperial powers, the illustrated press eschewed long-form texts and instead condensed complex ideological narratives into legible images, which worked as emotive political catalysts.

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