Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Appearance Politics : Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China / Lex Lu.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (324 p.) : 35 b&w halftones, 26 color halftonesContent type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9781501777875
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction WHY PHYSICAL APPEARANCE MATTERS TO CHINESE POLITICAL HISTORY -- Part 1 APPEARANCE POLITICS IN IMPERIAL CHINA -- 1 PHYSIOGNOMY AND POLITICAL APPEARANCE IN THE EARLY MINGLegitimizing -- 2 CURATING A MANCHU MASCULINE IMAGE -- Part 2 POLITICAL IMAGE AND REVOLUTION -- 3 INSTRUMENT UPGRADE -- 4 BUILDING THE LINE OF LEGITIMACY -- 5 PRINT, POWER, AND MASCULINITY -- Conclusion A BRAVE NEW WORLD OF APPEARANCE POLITICS -- Appendix: Chinese Glossary -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Lex Lu argues in Appearance Politics that crafting an appealing and powerful outward image has long been an essential political instrument in China. Its traces may be found in historical records, imperial portraits, physiognomic prognostications, photographs, posters, statues, and digital images. Employing rare archival materials from Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing, Lu tells the story of these political maneuverings. We learn the ways in which political actors and their agents designed their images, and we observe the shifting standards of male beauty that guided their decisions. Appearance Politics examines five case studies: the usurpation of Ming Prince Zhu Di; the rise of Manchu masculinity and its mixed standards of Han Chinese and Manchu beauty at the Yongzheng court; the use of modern photography and Western male beauty standards at the turn of the twentieth century; the making of the Republican founding father Sun Yat-sen; and the creation of visual templates of Mao Zedong. Lu's rich empirical study counters systematic stereotypical descriptions of Chinese male leadership embedded in Western media and scholarship.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781501777875

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction WHY PHYSICAL APPEARANCE MATTERS TO CHINESE POLITICAL HISTORY -- Part 1 APPEARANCE POLITICS IN IMPERIAL CHINA -- 1 PHYSIOGNOMY AND POLITICAL APPEARANCE IN THE EARLY MINGLegitimizing -- 2 CURATING A MANCHU MASCULINE IMAGE -- Part 2 POLITICAL IMAGE AND REVOLUTION -- 3 INSTRUMENT UPGRADE -- 4 BUILDING THE LINE OF LEGITIMACY -- 5 PRINT, POWER, AND MASCULINITY -- Conclusion A BRAVE NEW WORLD OF APPEARANCE POLITICS -- Appendix: Chinese Glossary -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

Lex Lu argues in Appearance Politics that crafting an appealing and powerful outward image has long been an essential political instrument in China. Its traces may be found in historical records, imperial portraits, physiognomic prognostications, photographs, posters, statues, and digital images. Employing rare archival materials from Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing, Lu tells the story of these political maneuverings. We learn the ways in which political actors and their agents designed their images, and we observe the shifting standards of male beauty that guided their decisions. Appearance Politics examines five case studies: the usurpation of Ming Prince Zhu Di; the rise of Manchu masculinity and its mixed standards of Han Chinese and Manchu beauty at the Yongzheng court; the use of modern photography and Western male beauty standards at the turn of the twentieth century; the making of the Republican founding father Sun Yat-sen; and the creation of visual templates of Mao Zedong. Lu's rich empirical study counters systematic stereotypical descriptions of Chinese male leadership embedded in Western media and scholarship.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Nov 2024)