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Introductory Remarks "Reading Photographs: Visual Culture and Everyday Life in Republican China"

Introductory Remarks "Reading Photographs: Visual Culture and Everyday Life in Republican China" © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163 / 157006107X222665 2007039. EJEAS 6.1. Proef 4. 27-7-2007:18.49, page 1. EJEAS 6 . 1 ( 2007 ) 1 – 3 European Journal of East Asian Studies www.brill.nl/ejea Introductory Remarks “Reading Photographs: Visual Culture and Everyday Life in Republican China” Wen-hsin Yeh Morrison Professor in History & Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley sha@berkeley.edu This special issue stems from a panel organized by Christian Henriot and presented at the Association for Asian Studies in San Francisco ( 2006 ). All contributors examine pictorial, especially photographed images of Chinese subjects that were produced in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a large body of visual materials, the essays o ff er rich descriptions of a broad range of everyday scenes and experiences about Chinese cities, streets, shops, theaters, movies, posters, newspapers, advertisements and magazines as gleaned from multifarious sources. As a collection, the papers celebrated the sound, color, taste, mood and movement of anonymous multitudes that had pursued lost missions on a once glamorous historical stage. All authors, meanwhile, share a central methodological question. In what way, the papers ask, does a study centered upon http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png European Journal of East Asian Studies Brill

Introductory Remarks "Reading Photographs: Visual Culture and Everyday Life in Republican China"

Yeh, Wen-hsin
European Journal of East Asian Studies , Volume 6 (1): 1 – Jan 1, 2007
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© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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10.1163/157006107X222665
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163 / 157006107X222665 2007039. EJEAS 6.1. Proef 4. 27-7-2007:18.49, page 1. EJEAS 6 . 1 ( 2007 ) 1 – 3 European Journal of East Asian Studies www.brill.nl/ejea Introductory Remarks “Reading Photographs: Visual Culture and Everyday Life in Republican China” Wen-hsin Yeh Morrison Professor in History & Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley sha@berkeley.edu This special issue stems from a panel organized by Christian Henriot and presented at the Association for Asian Studies in San Francisco ( 2006 ). All contributors examine pictorial, especially photographed images of Chinese subjects that were produced in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a large body of visual materials, the essays o ff er rich descriptions of a broad range of everyday scenes and experiences about Chinese cities, streets, shops, theaters, movies, posters, newspapers, advertisements and magazines as gleaned from multifarious sources. As a collection, the papers celebrated the sound, color, taste, mood and movement of anonymous multitudes that had pursued lost missions on a once glamorous historical stage. All authors, meanwhile, share a central methodological question. In what way, the papers ask, does a study centered upon

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