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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/fantasies-self-multiples-illus
 ions-and-poems-photographic-culture-modern-china/
SUMMARY:Fantasies of the Self: Multiples\, Illusions and Poems in the Photo
 graphic Culture of Modern China
DESCRIPTION:\n	Shengqing Wu (Associate Professor\, Division of Humanities\,
  Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\;  HYI Visiting Scholar\,
  2016-17)\n	Chair/discussant: David Wang (Edward C. Henderson Professor o
 f Chinese Literature\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department\,
  Harvard University)\n\n	 \n\n	Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for 
 Chinese Studies\n\n\n	This talk investigates the visual configurations\, r
 hetorical conventions\, and fundamental concepts underlying China’s port
 rait photography in the early twentieth century. By surveying pictorial ma
 gazines\, photo albums of courtesans\, and poems written about new visual 
 experiences\, it addresses issues of how portrait photography was understo
 od and practiced in the flourishing urban culture\, and how traditional ae
 sthetics\, visual tropes\, and Buddhist concepts were involved in adopting
  and indigenizing the new visual media. The complex interactions of modern
  technology and aestheticism\, image and text\, reveal that aesthetic trad
 ition was deeply implicated in the cross-cultural exchanges of technologie
 s and power in the formation of China’s urban culture and visual moderni
 ty\, further enriching our understanding of optical truth and illusion. 
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