Visual Culture in East Asia
Visual Culture in China

Abode of Illusion: The life and art of Chang Dai-chien (1899-1983). Dir. Carma Hinton. 1993.

Anagnost, Ann S. National Past-Times : Narrative, Representation, and Power In Modern China. Durham: Duke UP, 1997.
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Andrews, Judy, and Kuiyi Shen. "Commercial Art and China's Modernization." A Century in Crisis : Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1998. 184-95.
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Andrews, Julia F., Kuiyi Shen, and Jonathan D. Spence. A Century in Crisis : Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1998.
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Apter, David E., and Tony Saich. Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1994.
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Barlow, Tani E. "History and the Border." Journal of Women's History 18 (2006): 8-32.
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Beijing Bicycle. Dir. Wang Xiaoshuai. 1998.
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Benewick, Robert, and Stephanie Donald, eds. Belief in China: Art and Politics; Deities and Morality. Brighton: The Green Center for Non-Western Art and Culture at the Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums, 1996.
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Bessire, Mark H., ed. Wenda Gu : Art from Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium. Cambridge: MIT P, 2003.
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Bryson, Norman. "The Post-Ideological Avant-Garde." Inside Out : New Chinese Art. By Minglu Gao. New York: University of California P, 1998.
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Burkus-Chasson, Anne. "'Clouds and Mists That Emanate and Sink Away': Shitao's Waterfall on Mount Lu and Practices of Observation in the Seventeeth Century." Art History 19 (June 1996): 168-90.

Cai, Guoqiang, Dana Friis-Hansen, Octavio Zaya, and Takashi Serizawa. Cai Guo-Qiang. London: Phaidon P, 2002.
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Chow, Ray. "Male Narcissism and National Culture: Subjectivity in Chen Kaige’s King of the Children." Primitive Passions : Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema. By Rey Chow. New York: Columbia UP, 1995. 108-41.
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Claypool, Lisa. "Zhang Jian and China's First Museum." Journal of Asian Studies 64 (2005): 567-604.
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Cohn, Don. Vignettes from the Chinese: Lithographs from Shanghai in the Late Nineteenth Century. Hong Kong: Renditions Paperback, 1987.
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Croll, Elizabeth J. "Imagining Heaven: Collective and Gendered Dreams in China." Anthropology Today 7 (1991): 7-12.
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Dai, Jinhua. "Redemption and Consumption: Depicting Culture in the 1990s." New Asian Marxisms. Ed. Tani Barlow. Durham: Duke UP, 2002. 89-104.
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Dal Lago, Francesca. "Crossed Legs in 1930s Shanghai: How 'Modern' the Modern Woman?" East Asian History 19 (2000): 103-44.

Danzker, Jo-Anne Birnie, Ken Lum, and Zheng Shengtian, eds. Shanghai Modern. Munich: Museum Villa Stuck, 2004.

Elvin, Mark. "Tales of Shen and Xin: Body-Person and Heart-Mind in China during the Last 150 Years." Fragments for a History of the Human Body. By Michel Feher, Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi. Zone, 1993. 267-349.
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Erickson, Britta. The Art of Xu Bing : Words Without Meaning, Meaning Without Words. Seattle: University of Washington P, 2001. 33-75.
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Evans, Harriet, and Stephanie Donald, eds. Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China : Posters of the Cultural Revolution. Lantham: Rowman & Littlefield, Incorporated, 1999.
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Fu, Shen. Challenging the Past: The Paintings of Chang Dai-chien. Trans. Jan Stuart. Seattle and London: University of Washington P in association with Sackler Gallery, 1991.
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The Goddess (Shennü). Dir. Wu Yonggang. 1934.

Goodman, Bryna. "Improvisations on a Semicolonial Theme, or, How to Read a Celebration of a Transnational Urban Community." The Journal of Asian Studies 59 (November 2000): 889-926.
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Harris, Kristine. "The New Woman Incident: Cinema, Scandal and Spectacle in 1935 Shanghai." Transnational Chinese Cinemas : Identity, Nationhood, Gender. Ed. Sheldon H. Lu. Honolulu: University of Hawaii P, 1997.
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Hay, Jonathan. "Painting and the Built Environment in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai." Chinese Art Modern Expressions. Ed. Maxwell Hearn. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. 61-101.

Hevia, James. "Looting Beijing: 1860, 1900." Tokens of Exchange : The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations. Ed. Lydia He Liu. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1999. 192-213.
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Jinhua, Dai. Cinema and Desire : Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Works of Dai Jinhua. Ed. Jing Wang and Tani E. Barlow. London: Verso Books, 2002.

The King of Children. Dir. Chen Kaige. 1987.
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Ko, Dorothy. "Jazzing into Modernity: High Heels, Platforms, and Lotus Shoes." China Chic : East Meets West. By Valerie Steele and John S. Major. New York: Yale UP, 1999. 140-53.
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Köppel-Yang, Martina. Semiotic Warfare: A Semiotic Analysis, the Chinese Avant-garde, 1979-1989. Hong Kong: Timezone, 2003.
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Lai, Yu-chih. "Remapping Borders: Ren Bonian's Frontier Paintings and Urban Life in 1880s Shanghai." The Art Bulletin 86 (September 2004): 550-72.
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Laing, Ellen Johnston. "Art Deco and Modernist Art in Chinese Calendar Posters." Visual Culture in Shanghai 1850s-1930s. By Jason C. Kuo. Washington, DC: New Academia, 2007. 241-78.
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Lee, Leo Ou-fan. Shanghai Modern : The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945. Cambridge and London: Harvard UP, 1999.
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Liangyou. "The Young Companion." Shanghai 38 (1929).

Liu, Lydia He. Translingual Practice : Literature, National Culture, and Modernity - China, 1900-1937. New York: Stanford UP, 1995.
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McDougall, Bonnie S. Mao Zedong's Talks at the Yan'an Conference on Literature and Art : A Translation of the 1943 Text with Commentary. Minneapolis: Center for Chinese Studies Publications, 1980.
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Meng, Yue. "Re-envisioning the Urban Interior: Gardens and the Paradox of the Public Sphere." Shanghai and the Edges of Empires. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota P, 2006. 139-70.

"New Chinese Art - Inside Out." Asia Society. 2008.
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Pang, Laikwan. "Magic and Modernity in China." Positions 12 (2004): 299-327.
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Pang, Laikwan. "The Pictorial Turn: Realism, Modernity, and China's Print Culture in the Late Nineteenth Century." Visual Studies 20 (2005): 16-36.
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Pang, Laikwan. "Women's Stories On-Screen versus Off Screen." Building a New China in Cinema : The Chinese Left-Wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937. By Laikwan Pang. New York and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, Incorporated, 2002.
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Picturing Power I. Ohio State.

Power, Patrick. "Xu Bing." 2008. Xu Bing Studio, Inc.

San, Long Chin. "Composite Pictures and Chinese Art (1942)." Shanghai Modern. Ed. Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Ken Lum and Zheng Shengtian. New York: Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co KG, 2005. 154-73.
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"Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages." 1998. International Institute of Social History.

Tang, Xiaoing. Chinese Modern: The Heroic and the Quotidian. Durham: Duke UP, 2000.
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Teschner, Amy, ed. Transience : Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago P, 1999.

Thomson, John. Through China with a Camera. Westminister: A Constable & Co, 1898.
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Turbin, Carole. "Refashioning the Concept of Public/Private: Lessons from Dress Studies." Journal of Women's History 15 (Spring 2003): 43-51.
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Vinograd, Richard. "Private Art and Public Knowledge in Later Chinese Painting." Remembering and Representation. Ed. Susanne Küchler and Walter Melion. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution P. 172-202.
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Vinograd, Richard. "Relocations: Spaces of Chinese Visual Modernity." Chinese Art, Modern Expressions. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. 162-81.
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Vinograd, Richard. "Satire and Situation: Images of the Artist in Late Nineteenth-Century China." Phoebus 8 (1998): 110-31.

Wagner, Rudolf G. "The Role of the Foreign Community in the Chinese Public Sphere." China Quarterly (1995): 423-43.
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Wakeman, Frederic. "Mao’s Remains." Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China. By James L. Watson and Evelyn Sakakida Rawski. Berkeley: University of California Berkeley P, 1988.
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Wang, David Der-wei. "In the Name of the Real." Chinese Art Modern Expressions. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. 28-59.
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Wang, David Der-wei. Introduction. Fin-de-Siecle Splendor : Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997.
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Wu, Hung. "Tiananmen Square: A Political History of Monuments." Representations 35 (1991): 84-117.
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Zamperini, Paul. "On Their Dress They Wore a Body: Fashion and Identity in Late Qing Shanghai." Positions 11 (2003): 301-30.
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