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Republican Lens - Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press (Hardcover)
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Republican Lens - Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press (Hardcover)
Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes, 30
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What can we learn about modern Chinese history by reading a
marginalized set of materials from a widely neglected period? In
Republican Lens, Joan Judge retrieves and revalorizes the vital
brand of commercial culture that arose in the period surrounding
China's 1911 Revolution. Dismissed by high-minded ideologues of the
late 1910s and largely overlooked in subsequent scholarship, this
commercial culture has only recently begun to be rehabilitated in
mainland China. Judge uses one of its most striking, innovative -
and continually mischaracterized - products, the journal Funu
shibao (The women's eastern times), as a lens onto the early years
of China's first Republic. Redeeming both the value of the medium
and the significance of the era, she demonstrates the extent to
which the commercial press channeled and helped constitute key
epistemic and gender trends in China's revolutionary twentieth
century. The book develops a cross-genre and inter-media method for
reading the periodical press and gaining access to the complexities
of the past. Drawing on the full materiality of the medium, Judge
reads cover art, photographs, advertisements, and poetry,
editorials, essays, and readers' columns in conjunction with and
against one another, as well as in their broader print, historical
and global contexts. This yields insights into fundamental tensions
that governed both the journal and the early Republic. It also
highlights processes central to the arc of twentieth-century
knowledge culture and social change: the valorization and
scientization of the notion of "experience," the public
actualization of "Republican Ladies," and the amalgamation of
"Chinese medicine" and scientific biomedicine. It further revives
the journal's editors, authors, medical experts, artists, and, most
notably, its little known female contributors. Republican Lens
captures the ingenuity of a journal that captures the chaotic
potentialities within China's early Republic and its global
twentieth century.
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