Visualizing Beauty

by Wong, Aida Yuen

• ISBN13: 9789888083909
• ISBN10: 9888083902
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-31
• Publisher: Hong Kong Univ Pr

Summary

Visualizing Beauty examines the intersections between feminine ideals and changing socio-political circumstances in China, Japan, and Korea during the first half of the twentieth century. Eight essays present a broad range of visual products that informed concepts of beauty and womanhood, including fashion, interior design magazines, newspaper illustrations, and paintings of and by women. Studying "Traditional Woman" and "New Woman" as historical categories, this anthology contemplates the complex relations between feminine subjectivity and the promotion of modernity, commerce, and colonialism.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Note on Language	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Beauty Battle: Politics and Portraiture in Late Meiji Japan	p. 11
Painting Manuals and Gendered Modernity in Republican-era Shanghai	p. 23
How "Modern" was the Modern Woman? Crossed Legs and Modernity in 1930s Shanghai Calendar Posters, Pictorial Magazines, and Cartoons	p. 45
Fashioning Appearances: Feminine Beauty in Chinese Communist Revolutionary Culture	p. 63
The Modern Girl (Modeon Geol) as a Contested Symbol in Colonial Korea	p. 79
Female Images in 1930s Korea: Virtuous Women and Good Mothers	p. 91
Japanese Images of Asian Women in "Traditional" Clothes in the Age of Empire	p. 101
The Gender of Beauty in Architectural and Interior Design Discourse in Modern Japan	p. 113
Notes	p. 131
Glossary	p. 157
Bibliography	p. 163
Index	p. 175
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