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Note: starred titles ought to be available at the bookstore. We will read almost in its entirety the volume Chinese Art Modern Expressions edited by Maxwell Hearn and the Villa Stuck catalog Shanghai Modern. And although we will not read the following books cover to cover, I strongly recommend them for purchase: Crary, Foucault, Krauss, Stafford.
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Andrews, Julia, and Kuiyi Shen, eds. A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in 20th-Century China. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1998. N7345.A53 1998
Buck-Morss, Susan. The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. PT2603.E455P334 1989
Cochran, Sherman, ed. Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series, 1999. HF3840.S45I58 1999
*Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 1990. N7430.5.C7 1990
Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. Tr. Donald Nicholson-Smith. New York: Zone books, 1994. HM291.D413 1994
Dikotter, Frank. Exotic commodities: modern objects and everyday life in China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. DS721.D528 2006
____. Things Modern: Material Culture and Everyday Life in China. London: Hurst and Company, 2007. DS774.D53 2007
Ellsworth, R. H. Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 1800-1950. New York, 1986-88. ND2071.E44 1987 v. 1-3
Foster, Hal, ed. Vision and Visuality. New York: The New Press, 1988. N72.S6D57 no. 2
*Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The birth of the prison. Tr. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. HV8666.F6813 1995
Fu, Shen. Challenging the Past: The Paintings of Chang Dai-chien. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press in association with Sackler Gallery, 1991. ND1049.C4523 A4 1991
Habermas, Jurgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Tr. Thomas Burger. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. HM24.H2713 1989
*Hearn, Maxwell, ed. Chinese Art Modern Expressions. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. ND2068.C4847 2001
Hinton, Carma. "Abode of Illusion: The life and art of Chang Dai-chien (1899-1983)." (DVD 1993). Instructional Media Ctr ND1045.C53A2 1993 video
Jenks, Chris, ed. Visual Culture. New York: Routledge, 1996. NX458.V57 1995
Krauss, Rosalind E. The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 1989. N6490.K727 1985
Kuo, Jason C., ed. Visual Culture in Shanghai 1850s-1930s. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2007. N7347.S48.K86 2007
Lee, Leo Oufan. Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. DS796.S25L43 1999
Liu, Lydia H. Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity, China 1900-1937. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. PL2302.L534 1995
Liu, Lydia H., ed. Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999., 192-213. P306.2.T65 1999
Lu, Sheldon, ed. Transnational Chinese Cinemas. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. PN1993.5.C4T65 1997
Mirzoeff, Nicholas, ed. The Visual Culture Reader. London: Routledge, 1998, 2002. NX458.V58 2002
Morra, Joanne and Marquand Smith, eds. Visual Culture: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. 3 Vols. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. P93.5.V54 2006 v1-3.
Mulvey, Laura. Visual and Other Pleasures. New York: Macmillan, 1989. PN1995.9.W6M84 1989
Pang, Laikwan. Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937. New York and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. PN1993.5.C4P36 2002
Schwartz, Vanessa and Jeannene Pryzblyski, eds. The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. NX180.S6N55 2004
*Shanghai Modern. Munich: Museum Villa Stuck, 2004. N7347.S48S53 2004
*Stafford, Barbara. Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. BF311.S67715 2007 5 copies on reserve
Stafford, Barbara. Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the art of collecting. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 1999. BD190.S78 1999
Steele, Valerie and John Major, eds. China Chic: East Meets West. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. GT1555.S8 1999
"The Goddess of Shanghai" (Shennü) (DVD 1931, starring Ruan Lingyu). wierdly, does not have a call number, but is available at IMS
Thomson, John. Through China with a Camera. Westminster: A Constable & Co, 1898. DS709.T48T