eprintid: 28530
rev_number: 27
eprint_status: archive
userid: 5224
dir: disk0/00/02/85/30
datestamp: 2020-06-29 08:45:37
lastmod: 2022-07-18 13:37:50
status_changed: 2020-06-29 08:45:37
type: doctoralThesis
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creators_name: Guo, Qiuzi
title: When Kodak Came to China: Photography, Amateurs, and Visual Modernity, 1900-1937
subjects: 700
subjects: 770
subjects: 950
divisions: 72130
adv_faculty: af-07
cterms_swd: Photography
cterms_swd: Chinese art
cterms_swd: Modernity
abstract: My dissertation examines how amateur photography emerged and developed in China from 1900 to 1937, and how the photographic societies, exhibitions and publications opened new avenues of photographic expression after six decades of problematic colonial photography. Through the examination of a lot of private photographs by the amateur photographers in the Republican period, I argue that photography, once a luxury hobby of the elites in the late nineteenth century was transformed into a new communicative and expressive medium for new intellectuals and bourgeoisie in Republican China. This rise of amateur photography in China and the new photographic vocabulary developed by the photographic societies, exhibitions, and publications from the 1900s to the 1930s indeed contributed to the particular aspects and eventual growth of Chinese visual modernity which is a comprised, complex conception of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century China.
date: 2022
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00028530
ppn_swb: 1745614699
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-285301
date_accepted: 2019-09-30
advisor: HASH(0x556120cce7e0)
language: eng
bibsort: GUOQIUZIWHENKODAKC2022
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
citation:   Guo, Qiuzi  (2022) When Kodak Came to China: Photography, Amateurs, and Visual Modernity, 1900-1937.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/28530/1/final%20copy.pdf