FURTHER READING
To deepen your understanding of concepts, ideas, and especially of histories studied each week, please delve deeper into the sources listed in the syllabus and consult the following sources. The bibliography is selective rather than comprehensive, and contains only English-language texts. If you come across a text that you feel ought to be included in this bibliography, please let me know.
Introductory Texts: Chinese Art, Chinese History
Cahill, James. The Painter's Practice: How artists lived and worked in traditional China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. (see also Cahill's homepage for extensive bibliography).
Clunas, Craig. Art in China. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1997. (see image database)
Hucker, Charles. China's Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese history and culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975.
Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China. New York, 1990.
Thorp, Robert, and Richard Vinograd. Chinese Art and Culture. New York: Prentice Hall and Abrams, 2001.
Zarrow, Peter. China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949. London and New York: Routledge, 2005.
Vision and Visuality
Bryson, Norman. Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze. London: Macmillan, 1983.
Bryson, Norman, Michael A. Holly and Keith Moxey, eds. Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation. New York: HarperColllins, 1991.
Clunas, Craig. Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Doy, Gen. Black Visual Culture: Modernity and Postmodernity. London: I.B. Tauris & Co, 2000.
Elkins, James. See his homepage for an extensive bibliography.
Evans, Jessica and Stuart Hall, eds. Visual Culture: The Reader. London: Sage Publications, 1999.
Freedberg, David. The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Horne, Peter and Reina Lewis, eds. Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures. London: Routledge, 1996.
Jay, Martin. Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.
Jay, Martin and Teresa Brennan, eds. Vision in Context: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Sight. London: Routledge, 1996.
Jones, Amelia, ed. The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Lutz, Catherine A and Jane L Collins. Reading National Geographic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Melville, Stephen, and Bill Readings, eds. Vision and Textuality. London: Macmillan Press, 1995.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas, ed. Visual Culture Reader. London: Routledge, 1999.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas, ed. Diaspora and Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews. London: Routledge, 1999.
Mitchell, WJT. See his homepage for extensive bibliography.
Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilisation in China . Vol 4, Part 2. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1962, 78-125. "Light (Optics)."
Nochlin, Linda. The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
Sturken, Marita and Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Walker, J.A. and S. Chaplin. Visual Culture: An Introduction. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997.
Wallace, Michele, ed. Black Popular Culture: Discussions in Contemporary Society. New York: The New Press, 1983.
Shanghai studies
All About Shanghai: A Standard Guidebook [1934-1935]. 1983. Hong Kong. Reprint with a new introduction by H.J. Letheride of a 1930s handbook titled All about Shanghai and Environs.
Bickers, Robert. "History, Legend, and Treaty Port Ideology, 1925-1931." In Ritual and Diplomacy: The Mccartney Mission to China, 1792-1794. Ed. Robert Bickers. 81-92. London, 1993.
____. "Shanghailanders: The Formation and Identity of the British Settler Community in Shanghai, 1843-1937." Past and Present 159 (February 1998): 161-211.
Bickers, Robert and Jeffrey Wasserstrom. "Shanghai's 'Dogs and Chinese Not Admitted' Sign." China Quarterly 142 (June 1995): 444-466.
Goodman, Bryna. Native Place, City, and Nation: Regional Networks and Identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Henriot, Christian. Shanghai, 1927-1937: Municipal Power, Locality, and Modernization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Lu, Hanchao. "Away from Nanking Road: Small Stores and Neighborhood Life in Modern Shanghai." Journal of Asian Studies 53, no. 4 (November 1994): 93-122.
____. Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth-Century. Berkeley: University of California Press,
Rowe, William. "The Public Sphere in Modern China." Modern China 16, no. 3 (July 1990): 309-329. (JSTOR)
Wakeman, Frederic, Jr. "The Civil Society and Public Sphere Debate: Western Reflections on Chinese Political Culture." Modern China 19. no. 2 (April 1993): 108-138. (JSTOR)
Wakeman, Frederic, Jr. and Wen-hsin Yeh, eds. Shanghai Sojourners.
Wasserstrom, Jeffrey. "Locating Old Shanghai: Having Fits about Where it Fits." In Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950, ed. Joseph W Esherick, 192-210. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000.
Wasserstrom, Jeffrey. "Comparing 'Incomparable' Cities: Postmodern L.A. and Old Shanghai." Contention: Debates in Society, Culture, and Science 15 (Spring 1996): 69-90.
Yeh, Wen-hsin, ed. Becoming Chinese : passages to modernity and beyond.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Yeh, Wen-hsin. "Shanghai Modernity: Commerce and Culture in a Republican City." China Quarterly 150 (July 1997): 375-394.
Zhang, Yingjin. "The Texture of the Metropolis: Modernist Inscriptions of Shanghai in the 1930s." Modern Chinese Literature 9 (1995): 11-30.
Late Qing Painting and Photography
Brown, Claudia. Heritage of the brush : the Roy and Marilyn Papp collection of Chinese painting. Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1989.
Brown, Claudia and Chou Ju-hsi. Transcending Turmoil: Painting at the close of China's empire, 1796-1911. Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1992.
Brown, Claudia, ed. Myriad points of view: new research on Ming and Qing paintings in the Roy and Marilyn Papp collection. Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 2006.
Ellsworth, R. H. Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 1800-1950. New York, 1986-88.
Kuo, Jason, ed. Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2007.
Thirez, Reginne. "Photography and Portraiture in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai." East Asian History 17/18 (1999): 77-102 (e-reserves)
Wue, Roberta. "The Profits of Philanthropy: Relief Aid, Shenbao, and the Art World in Later Nineteenth-Century Shanghai." Late Imperial China 25, 1 (June 2004): 187-211.
Wue, Roberta. "Essentially Chinese: The Chinese Portrait Subject in Nineteenth-Century Photography." In Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture. Eds. Wu Hung and Katherine Tsang. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. (PDF)
Vinograd, Richard. Boundaries of the Self: Chinese Portraits, 1600-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Museums and Exhibitions
Bal, Mieke. Double Exposures: The Subject of Cultural Analysis. New York and London: Routledge, 1996.
Barringer, Tim and Tom Flynn, eds. Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture and the Museum. New York and London: Routledge, 1998.
Crimp, Douglas. On the Museum's Ruins. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.
Dias, Nélia. "Looking at Objects: Memory, Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Ethnographic Displays." In Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement. Ed George Robertson, et al, 164-76. London and New York: Routledge, 1994.
Duncan, Carol. "Art Museums and the Ritual of Citizenship." In Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Ed Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine, 88-103. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
Fernsebner, Susan R. "Objects, Spectacle, and a Nation on Display." Late Imperial China 27, no. 2 (December 2006): 99-124. (Project Muse)
Elsner, John, and Roger Cardinal, eds. The Cultures of Collecting. London: Reaktion Books,1994.
Harraway, Donna. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. New York: Routledge, 1989.
Karp, Ivan, and Steven Lavine, eds. Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
Mitchell, Timothy. Colonising Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Bibliography from the MCLC (includes Chinese texts):
Allen, Joseph R. "Exhibiting the Colony, Suggesting the Nation: The Taiwan Exposition, 1935." Paper presented at MLA 2005.
-----. "Taipei Park: Signs of Occupation." Journal of Asian Studies 67, 1 (Feb. 2007): 159-199. [a section of this essay deals with the Taiwan National Museum, situated in Taipei Park]
An, Laishun. "An Historical Approach to Museums' Roles in China." Lecture for Reinwardt Academie (Sept. 29,1999).
Anagnost, Ann. National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China. Durhan: Duke UP, 1997. [pages 161-67 deal with the Shenzhen Splendid China theme park]
Ba Jin. "'Wenge' bowuguan" (A Cultural Revolution museum). In Ba Jin zawen zixuanji (Ba Jin's self-selected zawen). Tianjin: Baihua wenyi, 1996, 287-90. English translation available at Virtural Museum of the Cultural Revolution.
Beijing bowuguan nianjian (Yearbook of Beijing museums). Beijing: Yanshan. [four volumes: 1912-1987; 1988-1991; 1992-1994; 1994-1998].
Cao Wubing. Jiyi xianchang yu wenhua diantang: women shidai de bowuguan (Sites of memory and cultural palaces: the museum in our era). Beijing: Xueyuan, 2005.
Cao Wubing and Cui Bo, eds. Bowuguan zhanlan: cehua sheji yu shishi (Museum exhibitions: planning, design, and implementation). Beijing: Xueyuan, 2005.
Cao Wubing and Li Wenchang, eds. Bowuguan guancha: bowuguan zhanshi xuanchuan yu shehui fuwu gongzuo diaocha yanjiu (Investigation of museums: survey research into museum display propaganda and social service work). Beijing: Xueyuan, 2005.
Carroll, John M. "Displaying the Past to Serve the Present: Museums and Heritage Preservation in Post-Colonial Hong Kong." Twentieth Century China 31, 1 (Nov. 2005).
Chan, Selina Ching. "Memory Making, Identity Building: The Dynamics of Economics and Politics in the New Territories of Hong Kong." China Information 17, 1 (2003): 66-91.
Chang, Jui-te. "The Politics of Commemoration: A Comparative Analysis of the Fiftieth-Anniversary Commemoration in Mainland China and Taiwan of the Victory in the Anti-Japanese War." In Diana Lary and Steve McKinnon, eds. Scars of War: The Impact of Warfare on Modern China. Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 2001, 136-60.
Cheater, A. P. "Death Ritual as Political Trickster in the People's Republic of China." The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 26 (July 1991): 67-97.
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"China's First World Fair." American Review of Reviews 41 (June 1910).
Claypool, Lisa. "Zhang Jian and China's First Museum." Journal of Asian Studies 64, 3 (Aug. 2005): 567-604.
Coble, Parks M. "China's 'New Remembering' of the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance, 1937–1945." The China Quarterly 190 (June 2007): 394-410.
Cohen, Paul. A. "Remembering and Forgetting: National Humiliation in Twentieth-Century China." Twentieth-Century China 27, 2 (April, 2002): 1-39.
Constantine, Eleni. "Mao's Mausoleum Echoes JFK Center." Progressive Architecture 60 (May 1979): 30-32.
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Dangdao Zhongguo de bowuguan shiye (The enterprise of contemporary Chinese museums). Beijing: Dangdai Zhongguo, 1998.
Denton, Kirk A. "Visual Memory and the Construction of a Revolutionary Past: Paintings from the Museum of the Chinese Revolution." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 12, 2 (Fall 2000): 203-35.
-----. "Museums, Memorial Sites and Exhibitionary Culture in the People's Republic of China." The C hina Quarterly 183 (Fall 2005): 565-86.
-----. "Horror and Atrocity: Memory of Japanese Imperialism in Chinese Museums." In Guobin Yang and Ching Kwan Lee, eds. Reinvisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China. Washington: Wilson Center Press, 2007, 245-86.
Fernsebner, Susan R. Material Modernities: China's Participation in World's Fairs and Expositions, 1876-1955. Ph. D. diss. San Diego: University of California, San Diego, 2002.
Flath, James A.. "Managing Historical Capital in Shangdong: Museum, Monument, and Memory in Provincial China." The Public Historian 24, 2 (2002): 41-59.
-----. "Setting Moon and Rising Nationalism: Lugou Bridge as Monument and Memory." International Journal of Heritage Studies 10, 2 (May 2004): 175-92.
Hamlish, Tamara. "Preserving the Palace Museum and the Making of Nationalism(s) in Twentieth Century China." Museum Anthropology 19, no. 2 (1995): 20-30.
-----. "Global Culture, Modern Heritage: Re-membering the Chinese Imperial Collection." In Susan Crane, ed., Museums and Memory. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000, 137-58.
Han, Min. "The Meaning of Mao in Mao Tourism of Shaoshan." In Tan Chee-Beng, et al. eds, Tourism, Anthropology and China. Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 2001, 215-36.
Harrison, Henrietta. "Martyrs and Militarism in Early Republican China."Twentieth Century China 23, 2 (April, 1998): 41-70.
-----. The Making of the Republican Citizen: Political Ceremonies and Symbols in China, 1911-1929. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Hevia, James. "World Heritage, National Culture, and the Restoration of Chengde." positions 9, 1 (Spring 2001): 219-43.
Hsieh, Shih-chung. "Representing Aborigines: Modelling Taiwan's 'Mountain Culture.'" In Kosaku Yoshino, ed., Consuming Ethnicity and Nationalism. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999, 89-110. [deals with Taiwan aboriginal culture parks]
Hu, Ying. "Qiu Jin's Nine Burials: The Making of Historical Monuments and Public Memory." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 19, 1 (Spring 2007): 138-91.
Huang, Jianli and Hong Lysa. "History and the Imaginaries of 'Big Singapore': Positioning the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 35, 1 (2004): 65-89.
Hung, Chang-tai. "Revolutionary History in Stone: The Making of a Chinese National Monument." The China Quarterly 166 (June 2001): 457-73.
-----. "The Red Line: Creating a Museum of the Chinese Revolution." The China Quarterly 184 (Dec. 2005): 914-933
Johnson, Marshall. "Making Time: Historic Preservation and the Space of Nationality." positions 2, no. 2 (1994): 177-249.
Ju, Jane C. 2003. “The Palace Museum as Representation of Culture: Exhibitions and Canons of Chinese Art History.” In Ko-wu Huang ed., When Images Speak: Visual Representation and Cultural Mapping in Modern China. Taibei: Zhongyang yanjiu yuan, jindai shi yanjiusuo, 477-507.
Kendall, Laurel. "Peoples under Glass: A Tale of Two Museums." In Kosaku Yoshino, ed., Consuming Ethnicity and Nationalism. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999, 111-32. [deals in part with the Yunnan Museum of Nationalities]
Kraus, Richard. "Public Monuments and Private Pleasures in the Parks of Nanjing: A Tango in the Ruins of the Ming Emperor's Palace." In Deborah Davis, ed., China's Consumer Revolution. Berkeley: UCP, 1999.
Li, Wei-I. "The Construction of Community Imaginaries in Taiwan's Museums and Archives Committees (1945-1978). Unpublished paper. Presented at the 2005 Meeting of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (SOAS)
Mazur, Mary G. "Public Space for Memory in Contemporary Civil Society: Freedom to Learn from the Mirror of the Past." The China Quarterly 160 (1999): 1019-1035.
Mitter, Rana. "Behind the Scenes at the Museum: Nationalism, History, and Memory in the Beijing War of Resistance Museum, 1987-1997." The China Quarterly 161 (March 2000): 279-93.
Munsterhjelm, Mark. "Killing Paiwan: The Dark Truth about Mitsubishi, CMC, and the Shung Ye Museum." English translation of an essay originally published in Lih Bau (Dec. 1999).
----. Aborigines Saved Yet Again: Settler Nationalism and Hero Narratives in a 2001 Exhibition of Taiwan Aboriginal Artefacts. MA thesis. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, 2004.
Oakes, Tim. "The Village as Theme Park: Mimesis and Authenticity in Chinese Tourism." In Tim Oakes and Louisa Schein eds., Translocal China: Linkages, Identities, and the Reimagining of Space. London: Routledge, 2006, 166-92.
Pao, Ignatius T. P. A History of Chinese Museums. Taipei: National Historical Museum, n.d.
Paintings Collected by the Museum of Chinese Revolution. Beijing: Cultural Relics Publishing House, 1991.
Ren, Hai. "Economies of Culture: Theme Parks, Museums, and Capital Accumulation in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan." Ph.d. diss. University of Washington, 1998.
Sala, Ilaria Maria. "Bringing History Up to Date: The New Museums of Macau and Hong Kong." China Perspectives 22 (March-April, 1999): 58-67.
Shao, Qin. "Exhibiting the Modern: The Creation of the First Chinese Museum, 1905-1930." The C hina Quarterly 177 (2004).
-----. "The Model on Display." In Shao, Culturing Modernity: The Nantong Model, 1890-1930. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004, 140-97.
Sickman, Lawrence. "Provincial Museums of North China." The Open Court 1, no. 937 (1936).
Stanley, Nick and Siu King Chung. "Representing the Past as the Future: The Shenzhen Chinese Folk Culture Villages and the Making of Chinese Identity." Journal of Museum Ethnography 7 (1995): 25-40.
Su, Donghai. "Museums and Museum Philosophy in China." Nordisk Museologi 2 (1995): 61-80.
Tarulevicz, Nicole. "Between Forgetting and Remembering: Singaporean History and the Singapore History Museum." In Fiona Kerlogue, ed., Performing Objects: Museums, Material Culture and Performance in Southeast Asia. London: The Horniman Museum and Gardens, 2004, 31-45.
Wagner, Rudolf. "Reading the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall in Peking: The Tribulations of the Implied Pilgrim." In Susan Naquin and Chun-fang Yu, eds., Pilgrim and Sacred Sites in China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, 378-423.
Wakeman, Frederic. "Revolutionary Rites: The Remains of Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung." Representations 10 (Spring 1985): 146-93.
-----. "Mao's Remains." In James Watson and Evelyn Rawski, eds., Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Wang, Eugene Y. "Perceptions of Change, Changes of Perception: West Lake as Contested Site/Sight in the Wake of the 1911 Revolution." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 12, no. 2 (Fall 2000): 73?12
Wang, Liping. "Creating a National Symbol: The Sun Yatsen Memorial in Nanjing." Republican China 21, 2 (April 1996): 23-63.
Watson, Rubie, ed. Memory, History, and Opposition Under State Socialism. Sante Fe: School of American Research Press, 1994.
Watson, Rubie. "Palaces, Museums, and Squares: Chinese National Spaces." Museum Anthropology 19, no. 2 (1995): 7-19.
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-----. Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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Yin-wang, Reginald and Annette Kwok. "Le mausolee de president Mao." L'architecture d'aujourd'hui 210 (Feb. 1979): 51-53.
Yang, Yi. "The National Museum of Taiwanese Literature: From Censorship to a Thousand Flowers Blooming." Zhongguo bowuguan xiehui, ed. Huigu yu zhanwang: Zhongguo bowuguan fazhan bainian (Looking back and looking forward: 100 years of development of Chinese museums). Beijing: Zijicheng, 2005.
Late Qing-Republican era Print Culture
Bader, A.L. "China's New Weapon–Caricature." The American Scholar vol. 10 (1941): 228-240.
Barmé, Geremie. “An artist and his epithet: notes on Feng Zikai and manhua.” Papers on Far Eastern History 39 (1989): 18–43.
_____. An Artist Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898–1975). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Chen, Jack. "China's Militant Cartoons." Asia vol. 45, no. 12 (December 1945): 308-312.
Cohn, Don J. ed. and tr. Vignettes from the Chinese: Lithographs from Shanghai in the late nineteenth century. Hong Kong : Research Centre for Translation, 1987.
Hay, Jonathan. "Painters and Publishing in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai." In Art at the Close of China's Empire. Ed. Ju-hsi Chou, 134-88. Phoebus, Occasional Papers in Art History, 8. Tempe: Arizona State University, 1998.
Huntington, Rania. "The Weird in the Newspaper." In Judith T. Zeitlin and Lydia Liu, with Ellen Widmer, eds., Writing and Materiality in China: Essays in Honor of Patrick Hanan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003, 341-97
Kim, Nany. “New wine in Old Bottles? Making and Reading an Illustrated Magazine From Late 19th- Century Shanghai.” In Joining the Global Public. Text, Image and City in early Chinese Newspapers. Ed. Rudolf Wagner. New York: SUNY, 2007.
Kuo, Jason, ed. Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2007.
Laing, Ellen Johnston. Selling Happiness: Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
Mittler, Barbara. A newspaper for China? power, identity, and change in Shanghai's news media, 1872-1912. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; Distributed by Harvard Univ. Press, 2004.
Reed, Christopher. Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese print capitalism, 1876-1937. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004.
Waara, Carrie. “Invention, Industry, Art: The Commercialisation of Culture in Republican Art Magazines.” In Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945. Ed. Sherman Cochrane, 61-89. Ithaca, NY: East Asian Program, Cornell University, 1999.
Wagner, Rudolf. “Joining the Global Imaginaire: the Shanghai Illustrated Newspaper Dianshizhai huabao” In Joining the Global Public: Text, Image and City in early Chinese Newspapers. New York: SUNY 2007.
Wang, David Der-Wei. Fin-de-siecle Splendor: Repressed modernities of late Qing fiction, 1849-1911. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Ye, Xiaoqing. The Dianshizhai Pictorial: Shanghai Urban Life, 1884-1898. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2003.
Yeh, Catherine. “Courtesan Stars and Entertainment Papers,” in her book City, Courtesan and Intellectual: Shanghai entertainment culture 1860-1910. Univ. Washington Press, 2005.
_____. “Making the image of the urban beauty: The Shanghai courtesan as illustrated in the late Qing,” in Judith Zeitlin and Lydia Liu, eds., Writing and Materiality in China, pp. 397-447.
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“Shanghai Leisure, Print Entertainment and the Tabloids, xiaobao.” In Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in the Early Chinese Newspapers 1870-1910. Ed. Rudolf Wagner. New York: SUNY 2007.
_____.“The Press and the Rise of Peking Opera Singer As National Star: The Case of Theater Illustrated (1912-17),” East Asian History (Winter 2004).
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"A Public Love Affair or a Nasty Game? -- The Chinese Tabloid Newspaper and the Rise of the Opera Singer as Star," European Journal of Asian Studies, No. 3 (2003): 13-51.
Zhang, Yingjin. "The Corporeality of Erotic Imagination: A Study of Pictorials and Cartoons in Republican China." John A. Lent, ed., In Illustrating Asia: Comics, Humor Magazines and Picture Books. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001, 121-136.
Republican-era Painting
Andrews, Julia F. "Traditional Chinese Painting in an Age of Revolution, 1911-1937." In Chinese Painting and the Twentieth Century: Creative in the Aftermath of Tradition, pp.579-595. Hangzhou: Zhejiang Art Press, 1997.
Andrews, Julia, ed. Between the thunder and the rain : Chinese painting from the Opium War to the Cultural Revolution, 1940-1979. San Francisco, CA : Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and Echo Rock Ventures, 2000.
Andrews, Julia, and Kuiyi Shen. A century in crisis : modernity and tradition in the art of twentieth-century China. New York : Guggenheim Museum : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1998.
_____. "Traditionalism as a Modern Stance: The Chinese Women's Calligraphy and Painting Society." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 11, 1 (Spring 1999): 1-30.
The Art of the Gao Brothers of the Lingnan School. Guangdong Painting Series 2. Hong Kong: Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995.
The Art of Xu Beihong. Hong Kong: Urban Council, 1988.
Chen, Jack. "Modern Chinese Paintings." Studio, no. 128 (August, 1944), pp. 50-54.
Clark, John. Modern Asian Art. Sydney: Craftsman House and Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998.
__________, ed. Modernity in Asian Art: The University of Sydney East Asian Series, no. 7. Broadway, New South Wales: Wild Peony, 1993.
__________. "Problems of Modernity in Chinese Painting." Oriental Art, new series, vol. 32, no. 3 (1986): 270-283.
Clarke, David. "Exile from Tradition: Chinese and Western Traits in the Art of Lin Fengmian." Oriental Art, vol. 39, no. 4 (Winter 1993/94), pp. 22-29.
Clarke, David. Modern Chinese Art. NY/HK: Oxford UP, 2000.
Clunas, Craig. "Chinese Art and Chinese Artists in France, 1924-25." Arts Asiatiques 44 (1989): 100-106.
Croizier, Ralph. Art and Revolution in Modern China: The Lingnan (Cantonese) School of Painting, 1906-1951. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988.
_____. "Post-Impressionists in Pre-War Shanghai: The Juelanshe (Storm Society) and the Fate of Modernism in Republican China." In Modernity in Asian Art. Broadway. Ed. John Clark, 135-54. NSW, Australia : Wild Peony, 1993.
Fong, Wen C. Between Two Cultures: Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Chinese Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001).
Fu, Shen. "Huang Binhong's Shanghai Period Landscape Paintings and His Late Floral Works." Orientations, vol. 18, no. 9 (September 1987): 66-78.
Hironobu, Kohara. "The Reform Movement in Chinese Painting of the Early 20th Century." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Sinology. Taipei: Academica Sinica, 1981, 449- 64.
Huang Yongyu and His Paintings. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1988.
Kuo, Jason C. Innovation within Tradition: The Painting of Huang Pin-hung. Hong Kong: Hanart Gallery; and Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College, 1989.
Kuo, Jason C. Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung's late work. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
Laing, Ellen Johnston. An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists. Eugene: University of Oregon Asian Studies Program, Publication no. 6, 1984.
Li, Chu-tsing. Trends in Modern Chinese Painting: The CA Drenowatz Collection. Ascona, Switzerland, 1979 (available through JSTOR).
MacRitchie, Lewis. "Report on Wartime Painting in China." Pacific Art Review, vol. 4 (1945-1946): 47-55.
Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2001.
Silbergeld, Jerome. Mind Landscapes: The Paintings of C.C. Wang. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987.
Sullivan, Michael. Art and artists of twentieth-century China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Sullivan, Michael. "Recollections of Art and Artists in Wartime Chengdu." The Register of the Spencer Museum of Art, vol. 6, no. 3 (1986), pp. 6-19.
Wong, Aida Yuen. Parting the Mists: Discovering Japan and the Rise of National-style Painting in China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006.
Wu Guanzhong: A Twentieth-Century Chinese Painter. London: British Museum Press, 1992.
Woodcut Print Movement (see also Week Seven for Print Culture bibliography)
The People's Progress: Twentieth Century Chinese Woodcuts (catalog). Sydney: Art Gallery of NSW, 1996.
Sun, Shirley Hsiao-ling. "Lu Hsün and the Chinese Woodcut Movement: 1929-1935." Doctoral dissertation, Stanford University, 1974.
__________. Modern Chinese Woodcuts. San Francisco: Chinese Culture Foundation, 1979.
Women as Consumers and Objects of Consumption
Chan, Wellington K.K. "Personal Styles, Cultural Values, and Management: The Sincere and Wing On Companies in Shanghai and Hong Kong, 1900-1941." In Asian Department Stores. Ed. Kerrie L MacPherson, 66-89. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998.
Finnane, Antonia. "Yangzhou's Modernity: Fashion and Consumption in the Early Nineteenth Century." positions 11, no 2 (2003): 395-425 (Project Muse)
Ko, Dorothy. Cinderella's Sisters: A revisionist history of footbinding. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Kuo, Jason, ed. Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2007.
Hershatter, Gail. Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Cinema
Zhang, Yingjin. The City in Modern Chinese Literature & Film: Configurations of Space, Time, and Gender. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
There are extensive bibliographies of film available online.
Consumer Culture of 1930s and Wartime Shanghai
Cochrane, Sherman, ed., Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945 (Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series, 1999.
Dikotter, Frank. Exotic commodities: modern objects and everyday life in China. New York : Columbia University Press, 2006.
Dikotter, Frank. Things Modern: Material Culture and Everyday Life in China. London: Hurst and Company, 2007.
Gerth, Karl. China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Huang, Nicole. "Shaping public knowledge: women's print culture in wartime occupied Shanghai (1941-1945)." In In the shadow of the rising sun : Shanghai under Japanese occupation. Eds. Christian Henriot and Wen-hsin Yeh. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Yeh, Wen-hsin, ed. Wartime Shanghai. New York and London: Routledge, 1998.