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Visualising Ethnicity in the Southwest Borderlands: Gender and Representation in Late Imperial and Republican China

Visualising Ethnicity in the Southwest Borderlands: Gender and Representation in Late Imperial and Republican China

Zhu, Jing

Hardcover

General Asian HistoryGeneral LawGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 9004422757
ISBN13: 9789004422759
Publisher: Brill
Published: Feb 6 2020
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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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