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China/visual culture/Web Sites and Resources

Tour China from home

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Via Easternity and Danwei, Cao Fei’s Second Life RMB City. If you want a nice view of what China is today, this is it. You would of course get a better vi...

China/visual culture/Web Sites and Resources

Conceptual art

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

  Several generations later, in Zhao Mengfu’s “Twin Pines, Level Distance,” something new appears. No more realism; no more romanticism; in a sense, no mor...

China/visual culture

The Impossible Nude

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

Following up a quote on Thomas Hahn’s site I got a hold of Francois Julien’s The Impossible Nude – Chinese Art and Western Aesthetics.1 Jullie...

China/visual culture/Web Sites and Resources

Resource on Chinese photography

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Hunting leopards in Zhejiang, 1935  I’ve been doing a bit of photo and video stuff lately, and one site that has been very helpful is Thomas Hahn’s ...

China/English/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars/visual culture

The crucibe of Revolution

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

One of the nice thing about studying modern Chinese history is that Chinese states have gone to gone to great lengths to collect oral histories and other accoun...

China/Maoist era (1949-1976)/visual culture

Non-commercial emotion

Posted on October 9, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

James Fallows recommends the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center. At least as a web museum it is not as good as Stefan Landsberger’s I did find the intr...

China/China-Japan/English/Sino-Japanese Wars/visual culture

Our Japanese Comrades

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

I’ve been paging through 抗战漫画 a book re-printing lots of wartime cartoons. Although some work has been done on these, one thing I have not seen commented ...

China/Countryside/English/Republican/visual culture

Summer must be here

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

People seem to be too busy doing nothing to post much, but what good is technology if you don’t use it? By a mountain path. Few guests. A huqin‘s so...

China/English/visual culture/Web Sites and Resources

More technological coolness

Posted on April 15, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

  This is probably not news to many of our readers, but you can now download the entire 1941 animated film Princess Iron Fan from Internet Archive. It is p...

China/Class/Economics/General/visual culture

Electrons, the ultimate export

Posted on October 3, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Preview of a documentary on gold-mining in China http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho5Yxe6UVv4 I hope my son never sees this post, which suggests that you really c...

China/Gender/General/visual culture

Arrrrgh, Jun lad,

Posted on September 19, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Today is international talk like a pirate day, which was created to prove that the internet does not always have to be a place of serious scholarship and high-m...

China/General/Teaching/visual culture

Acting quickly, he formed a committee to study the issue

Posted on September 19, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Via Crooked Timber, an adaptation of Little Sisters of the Grasslands that will appeal to anyone who likes Maoist kitsh, or who works in an American university,...

China/General/Post-Mao/visual culture

The Shanghai Taxicab test

Posted on September 7, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Go look at this. Not much to say, other than that it seems to confirm that the Chinese are starting to catch up to the South Koreans in becoming video game fana...

China/General/Identity/Maoist era (1949-1976)/visual culture

Chairman Mao is like Jesus to us

Posted on May 23, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

Not really related to anything, but I found it interesting. Chinese students in New Zealand have been protesting this image of Chairman Mao from a student newsp...

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