Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China

by Joseph W. Ho

Book Overview

In Developing Mission, Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space--tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China.

When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501761854
• ISBN13: 9781501761850
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up