TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lu,Lex
TI  - Appearance Politics: Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China 
SN  - 9781501777875
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - CULTURAL STUDIES
KW  - GENDER STUDIES
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / China
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Chinese masculinity, Chinese physiognomy, leadership images, Mao Zedong, Communist propaganda poster
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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