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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Portrayals of women in early twentieth-century China
    sub title: redefining female identity through modern design and lifestyle
  name:
    name part: Ng, Sandy
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 164 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China explores the role played by woman, and their visual representations, in introducing modern design and modern ways of living to China. It investigates this through an analysis of how women and modern design were represented in the advertisements, photographs, and films of Republican-era China. This study explores the intersection of modernity and the Chinese woman, as they negotiated their changing identities through, and with, new designs that proliferated in Chinese households in the first half of the twentieth century. The advertisements, mass media, photographs and films took on the function of social conditioning, conveying to the viewers ideas of modern social standards, behavior and appearances. With women both instrumentalised within these images, and addressed through them, their visual representations became metaphors that fashioned a new portrait of China, while concurrently impacting on the identity, agency and subjectivity of women themselves.
  table of contents: Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Traditional Material Culture and Lifestyles in the Age of Modernity -- 3. Femininity and Social Changes as seen through Meiren Hua and Advertising Posters -- 4. The Idealized Woman and The Tasteful Consumer -- 5. Female Subjectivity -- 6. Epilogue
  target audience: specialized
  note: Sandy Ng.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-160) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Women in art
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Women
    geographic: China
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Femmes dans l'art
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Femmes
    geographic: Chine
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Cultural studies
  subject:
    topic: Gender studies: women
  subject:
    topic: DESIGN / General
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Asia / China
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
  subject:
    topic: Cultural studies
  subject:
    topic: Material culture
  subject:
    topic: Gender studies: women and girls
  subject:
    topic: Asian Studies
  subject:
    topic: AS
  subject:
    topic: Art and Material Culture
  subject:
    topic: ART & MAT
  subject:
    topic: Cultural Studies
  subject:
    topic: CULTURAL
  subject:
    topic: East Asia and North East Asia
  subject:
    topic: EA & NE ASIA
  subject:
    topic: Gender and Sexuality Studies
  subject:
    topic: GEND & SEXU
  subject:
    topic: Gender, Design, Modernity, Consumption, Culture
  classification: N7630 .N4 2024
  classification: 704.9424
  identifier: 9789462988910
  identifier: 9462988919
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: NLAUP
    record creation date: 231114
    record change date: 20250318223428.5
    record identifier: in00005466159
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng