Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press Volume 30

by Joan Judge

What can we learn about modern Chinese history by reading a marginalized set of materials from a widely neglected period? In Republican Lens , Joan Judge retrieves and revalorizes the vital brand of commercial culture that arose in the period surrounding China's 1911 Revolution. Dismissed by high-minded ideologues of the late 1910s and largely overlooked in subsequent scholarship, this commercial culture has only recently begun to be rehabilitated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520284364
• ISBN13: 9780520284364
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"