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- Developing Mission : Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China
- Publication Name
- Developing Mission
- Title
- Developing Mission
- Subtitle
- Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern Chin
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1501761854
- EAN
- 9781501761850
- ISBN
- 9781501761850
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Genre
- Photography, Religion, History, Political Science
- Topic
- Christian Theology / General, Asia / China, History, International Relations / Diplomacy
- Release Date
- 15/01/2022
- Release Year
- 2022
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Series
- United States in the World
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Number of Pages
- 324 Pages
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In Developing Mission , Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space--tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States.
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Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
1501761854
ISBN-13
9781501761850
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11050377538
Product Key Features
Book Title
Developing Mission : Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Christian Theology / General, Asia / China, History, International Relations / Diplomacy
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Photography, Religion, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
324 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16 Oz
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Lc Classification Number
Bv3415.2.H625 2021
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By bringing decaying visual records to light, Ho elevates visual representations to more than mere illustrations; he demonstrates the ways that missionaries used new visual technologies as a medium to interact with their environments and audiences and to move "in between" and among the conventions of the day. In the process, they helped to visualize a new vision he terms "missionary modernity" for China., Developing Mission is a nuanced study of a deserving topic. Ho's prose is well crafted and his analysis reflects depth and engagement with a number of fields. The book should attract interest from scholars of modern Chinese history, global Christianity and missions, and historians of technology., Joseph W. Ho provides a cross-cultural history of American missionary visual practices. Focusing on the American missionaries' images and image making in China from the 1920s to the early 1950s, the book explores how missionaries employed the camera as an agent that facilitated the translations of missionary experiences and the shaping of cross-cultural identities., Ho succeeds in making missionaries and their photographs visible once more and showing how they continue to connect some of their members across the communities they imaged[.], This book is an accomplishment deserving scholarly attention. It is well researched with a plethora of sources in both English and Chinese and does a marvelous job in helping us understand the centrality of image-making in missionary experiences., Ho's multi-faceted analysis effectively underscores the seminal historic relationship of missionaries as photographers. This is accomplished with rich prose alongside well-researched biographical narratives that enliven the many Protestant, Catholic, and Chinese actors; pertinent references that combine Chinese and American religious and secular history; and finally, precise--yet inviting--technical writing about cameras. All aspects engage the reader to be both positively surprised and challenged as to unpack the interdisciplinary components, stories and theoretical content, in each chapter., The book's distinguishing characteristics include its ingenious, informative title[.] It is of great value to graduate students and historians of Chinese Christianity, Sino-US cultural interactions, and photography and film., Developing Mission is an extremely well-written, lyrical book that speaks to multiple disciplines. Ho draws upon film theory in meaningful and clear terms and without recourse to much jargon. He frames his story within a historical context that is accessible, and he has a penchant for including anecdotes that are moving and meaningful. This book should be extremely popular among a wide range of audiences inside and outside the academy., Ho's examinations of missionary photographs offer a compelling perspective on noncombatant photography during times of war. [He] succeeds in making missionaries and their photographs visible once more and showing how they continue to connect some of their members across the communities they imaged., Developing Mission is a groundbreaking contribution to the historiography of Chinese Christianity. Joseph Ho not only offers us a new and exciting methodology to incorporate photographic evidence into the study of mission history but also preserves the ever-receding memory of China's missionary era., Ho offers a rich, layered, and inspiring history of missionary visual practices. With a diverse range of subjects and a wealth of detail, the vernacular photographs and films offer a provocative alternative to modern visualizations of China.
Table of Content
Introduction: All Things Visible and Invisible 1. New Lives, New Optics: Missionary Modernity and Visual Practices in Interwar Republican China 2. Converting Visions: Photographic Mediations of Catholic Identity in West Hunan, 1921-1929 3. The Movie Camera and the Mission: Vernacular Filmmaking as China-US Bridge, 1931-1936 4. Chaos in Three Frames: Fragmented Imaging and the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 5. Memento Mori: Loss, Nostalgia, and the Future in Postwar Missionary Visuality Epilogue: Latent Images
Lccn
2021-007660
Dewey Decimal
266.023730510904
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
The United States in the World Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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