Developing mission : photography, filmmaking, and American missionaries in modern China /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ho, Joseph W., 1987- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Series:	United States in the world.
Subjects:	Missions, American > China > History > 20th century. Vernacular photography > China > History > 20th century. Photography > Social aspects > China > History > 20th century. Photography > China > History > 20th century. Amateur films > China > History > 20th century. Christianity > China > 20th century. 1900-1999 Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : All Things Visible and Invisible
New Lives, New Optics : Missionary Modernity and Visual Practices in Interwar Republican China
Converting Visions : Photographic Mediations of Catholic Identity in West Hunan, 1921-1929
The Movie Camera and the Mission : Vernacular Filmmaking as China-US Bridge, 1931-1936
Chaos in Three Frames : Fragmented Imaging and the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
Memento Mori : Loss, Nostalgia, and the Future in Postwar Missionary Visuality
Epilogue : Latent Images.