Visual Culture in Contemporary China: Paradigms and Shifts

by Xiaobing Tang

Book Overview

Exploring a wealth of images ranging from woodblock prints to oil paintings, this beautifully illustrated full-color study takes up key elements of the visual culture produced in the People's Republic of China from its founding in 1949 to the present day. In a challenge to prevailing perceptions, Xiaobing Tang argues that contemporary Chinese visual culture is too complex to be understood in terms of a simple binary of government propaganda and dissident...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107084393
• ISBN13: 9781107084391
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.8"