Pickowicz, Paul. <br/><br/>
Liangyou, Kaleidoscopic Modernity and the Shanghai Global Metropolis, 1926-1945. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (299 pages) 
 - Modern Asian Art and Visual Culture Series ;  v.1 .
 - Modern Asian Art and Visual Culture Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Liangyou -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Liangyou, Popular Print Media, and Visual Culture in Republican Shanghai -- Part I: Designing Modernity -- 1. Kaleidoscopic Modernisms: Montage Aesthetics in Shanghai and Tokyo Pictorials of the 1920s and 1930s -- 2. Re-framing the Ordinary: The Place and Time of "Art Photography" in Liangyou, 1926-1930 -- Part II: Embodying the Modern -- 3. Health by the Bottle: The Dr. Williams' Medicine Company and the Commodification of Well-Being in Liangyou -- 4. The Modern Girl in Motion: Women and Sports in Liangyou -- 5. Producing Norms, Defining Beauty: The Role of Science in the Regulation of the Female Body and Sexuality in Liangyou and Furen Huabao -- Part III: Negotiating Genders -- 6. Stars in the Nation's Skies: The Ascent and Trajectory of the Chinese Aviation Celebrity in the Prewar Decade -- 7. Pillar of the Nation: Photographic Representation of "Modern" Chinese Masculinity in Liangyou -- 8. Searching for the "Modern Wife" in Prewar Shanghai and Seoul Pictorials -- Part IV: Modernizing Tradition -- 9. Blossoming Beyond the Pages: Female Painterly Modernities in Liangyou -- 10. From Painter to Artist: Representing Guohua Paintings and Painters in Liangyou, 1926-1938 -- Appendix: Distributing Liangyou -- Bibliography -- List of Characters -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Index. 
<br/><br/> This collection of original essays explores the rise of popular print media in China as it relates to the quest for modernity in the global metropolis of Shanghai from 1926 to 1945. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004263383 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Liang you.<br/>Illustrated periodicals-China-Shanghai.<br/>Art and photography-China-Shanghai.<br/>Shanghai (China)-In mass media.<br/>Shanghai (China)-In popular culture.<br/>Shanghai (China)-Social life and customs-20th century-Pictorial works.<br/>Shanghai (China)-Social conditions-20th century-Pictorial works.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>AP95.C4 .L536 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>950