Introduction: All Things Visible and Invisible -- New Lives, New Optics : Missionary Modernity and Visual Practices in Interwar Republican China -- Converting Visions : Photographic Mediations of Catholic Identity in West Hunan, 1921-1929 -- The Movie Camera and the Mission : Vernacular Filmmaking as China-US Bridge, 1931-1936 -- Chaos in Three Frames : Fragmented Imaging and the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Memento Mori : Loss, Nostalgia, and the Future in Postwar Missionary Visuality -- Epilogue: Latent Images.
Summary:
"A transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses-reconstructing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations. It illuminates the centrality of visual practices in modern American missionary experiences and representations of China, even as changing Sino-US relations radically transformed the lives of those behind and in front of the lens"-- Provided by publisher.
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