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The Full-Length Mirror

A Global Visual History

By: Wu Hung

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Beautifully illustrated, a stirring and wide-ranging reflection on art, technology, culture—and the full-length mirror. This book tells two stories about the full-length mirror. One story, through time and space, crisscrosses the globe to introduce a broad range of historical actors: kings and slaves, artists and writers, merchants and craftsmen, courtesans, and commoners. The other story explores the connections among objects, painting, and photography, the full-length mirror providing a new perspective on historical artifacts and their images in art and visual culture. The Full-Length Mirror represents a new kind of global art history in which “global” is understood in terms of both geography and visual medium, a history encompassing Europe, Asia, and North America, and spanning over two millennia from the fourth century BCE to the early twentieth century.

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Reaktion Books

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1789146119

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9781789146110

The Meaning of Freedom

Yan Fu and Origins of Chinese Liberalism

By: Max Ko-wu Huang

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The Meaning of Freedom

Yan Fu and Origins of Chinese Liberalism

By: Max Ko-wu Huang

This book is about how one of the leading intellectual architects of Chinese modernization, Yan Fu (1854 - 1921), introduced the Chinese intellectual world to the liberalism of John Stuart Mill partly by grasping Mill's ideas, but also by misunderstanding and projecting them onto indigenous Chinese values, which in turn led to criticism and resistance. Rather than bending Western liberalism to the purposes of Chinese nationalism, Yan initiated a distinctively Chinese liberal tradition that became a major component of China's modern political culture.

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436

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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

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9882378870

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9789882378872

The Great Wall of Confinement

The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage

By: Philip F. Williams,Yenna Wu

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The Great Wall of Confinement

The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage

By: Philip F. Williams,Yenna Wu

China is the only major world power to have entered the twenty-first century with a thriving prison camp network—a frightening, mostly hidden realm known since 1951 as the laogai system. This book, the most comprehensive study of China's prison camps to date, draws from a wide range of primary sources, including many compelling literary documents, to illuminate life inside China's prison camps. Focusing mainly on the second half of the twentieth century, Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu outline the evolution of the laogai system, construct a vivid picture of prisoners' lives from arrest and interrogation to release, and provide a troubling new perspective on the human rights issues plaguing China.

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270

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Univ of California Press

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0520938550

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9780520938557

The Double Screen

Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting

By: Wu Hung

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The Double Screen

Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting

By: Wu Hung

In the first exploration of Chinese paintings as both material products and pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how the collaboration and tension between material form and image gives life to a painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears; its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with social activities and cultural conventions neglected. A screen occupies a space and divides it, supplies an ideal surface for painting, and has been a favorite pictorial image in Chinese art since antiquity. Wu Hung undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the screen, which can be an object, an art medium, a pictorial motif, or all three at once. With its diverse roles, the screen has provided Chinese painters with endless opportunities to reinvent their art. The Double Screen provides a powerful non-Western perspective on issues from portraiture and pictorial narrative to voyeurism, masquerade, and political rhetoric. It will be invaluable to anyone interested in the history of art and Asian studies.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226360741

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9780226360744

Modern Archaics

Continuity and Innovation in the Chinese Lyric Tradition, 1900-1937

By: Shenquing Wu

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Modern Archaics

Continuity and Innovation in the Chinese Lyric Tradition, 1900-1937

By: Shenquing Wu

After the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911 and the rise of a vernacular language movement, most scholars and writers declared the classical Chinese poetic tradition to be dead. But how could a longstanding high poetic form simply grind to a halt, even in the face of tumultuous social change? In this groundbreaking book, Shengqing Wu explores the transformation of Chinese classical-style poetry in the early twentieth century. Drawing on extensive archival research into the poetry collections and literary journals of two generations of poets and critics, Wu discusses the continuing significance of the classical form with its densely allusive and intricately wrought style. She combines close readings of poems with a depiction of the cultural practices their authors participated in, including poetry gatherings, the use of mass media, international travel, and translation, to show how the lyrical tradition was a dynamic force fully capable of engaging with modernity. By examining the works and activities of previously neglected poets who maintained their commitment to traditional aesthetic ideals, Modern Archaics illuminates the splendor of Chinese lyricism and highlights the mutually transformative power of the modern and the archaic.

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459

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BRILL

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1684170729

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9781684170722

Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting

By: Richard M. Barnhart,Xin Yang,Nie Chongzheng,James Cahill,Hung Wu,Lang Shaojun

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Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting

By: Richard M. Barnhart,Xin Yang,Nie Chongzheng,James Cahill,Hung Wu,Lang Shaojun

Written by a team of eminent international scholars, this book is the first to recount the history of Chinese painting over a span of some 3000 years.

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Yale University Press

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0300094477

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9780300094473

Art of the Yellow Springs

By: Wu Hung

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Art of the Yellow Springs

By: Wu Hung

We might think the Egyptians were the masters of building tombs, but no other civilization has devoted more time and resources to underground burial structures than the Chinese. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium B.C.E. to the early twentieth century, the Chinese have been building some of the world’s most elaborate tombs and furnishing them with exquisite objects. It is these objects and the concept of the tomb as a “treasure-trove” that The Art of the Yellow Springs seeks to critique, drawing on recent scholarship to examine memorial sites the way they were meant to be experienced: not as a mere store of individual works, but as a work of art itself. Wu Hung bolsters some of the new trends in Chinese art history that have been challenging the conventional ways of studying funerary art. Examining the interpretative methods themselves that guide the study of memorials, he argues that in order to understand Chinese tombs, one must not necessarily forget the individual works present in them—as the beautiful color plates here will prove—but consider them along with a host of other art-historical concepts. These include notions of visuality, viewership, space, analysis, function, and context. The result is a ground-breaking new assessment that demonstrates the amazing richness of one of the longest-running traditions in the whole of art history.

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274

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Reaktion Books

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1861897189

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9781861897183

Recollections of the Revolution of 1911

A Great Democratic Revolution of China

By: Wu Yuzhang

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Recollections of the Revolution of 1911

A Great Democratic Revolution of China

By: Wu Yuzhang

The Revolution of 1911 was the revolution which overthrew the feudal system of monarchy in China. Wu Yuzhang was a member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and personally took part in this revolution.In this book he puts down his own fighting experience, and analyses the revolution with keen insight and the aid of a rich fund of material. His answers to the following questions are especially instructive: Why did the revolution break out? What were the causes of its achievements and eventual failure? What part did the people play in this revolution? This book will help the reader to have a deeper understanding of this momentous revolution in China's history.

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The Minerva Group, Inc.

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089875531X

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9780898755312

Book's by Wu Suzhou Yue Xuan

The Full-Length Mirror

The Full-Length Mirror

The Meaning of Freedom

The Meaning of Freedom

The Great Wall of Confinement

The Great Wall of Confinement

The Double Screen

The Double Screen

Modern Archaics

Modern Archaics

Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting

Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting

Art of the Yellow Springs

Art of the Yellow Springs

Recollections of the Revolution of 1911

Recollections of the Revolution of 1911

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