The East Asian modern girl : women, media, and colonial modernity in the interwar years / edited by Sumei Wang

Author(s): Wang, Sumei, 1953-

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Main Title
The East Asian modern girl : women, media, and colonial modernity in the interwar years
Author(s)
Wang, Sumei, 1953-
Publisher
Leiden : Brill, 2021
Collation
xii, 212 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)
26 cm
Series Title
Modern Asian art and visual culture
ISBN
9789004424661
Dewey Class
950
Contents
Introduction / Sumei Wang -- Mass media and the modern girl in 1930s colonial Taiwan / Sumei Wang -- Progressive or immoral? Representations of the modern girl in print media of 1930s Taiwan / Pei-yin Lin -- Modernity through heterogeneity: historicizing the modern girl in colonial Korea / Jiyoung Suh -- Urban intrigues: crime, romance, and the modern girl in colonial Korea detective fiction / Jina E. Kim -- Colonial modernity, beauty, health, and hygiene: centering on Japanese cosmetics, cleaning supplies, and medicine advertisements in Shengjing Times (Shengjing Shibao) / Yongmei Wu -- The wartime modern girl in Japan: changes in female images in cosmetic advertisements of Housewife's Friend (Shufu No Tomo) from the 1930s to the 1940s / Ayuu Ishida -- "Women such as the Dan" and a Hong Kong colonial modernity / Ching Yau -- The framed female image: a pictorial semiotic analysis of classic Shanghai calendar posters during the 1910s-1930s / I-fen Chen and Hsiu-hui Sun -- Conclusion / Sumei Wang.
Language
English
Subject
Women -- East Asia -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Women in mass media -- History -- 20th century
BRN
10504

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