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Revolutionary Photojournalism: Framing a New China, 1905–1919

Giulia Pra Floriani
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      In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China, a sociopolitical and a visual revolution unfolded simultaneously, each shaping the other. This book argues that early Chinese revolutionaries from the late Qing period through the May Fourth Movement used photojournalism as a temporal intervention to shatter the visual stagnation of nineteenth-century studio photography, pulling China out of an ossified past and demanding recognition as a modern nation on the global stage. Capturing and fueling protest against both the ruling Qing dynasty and foreign imperial powers, the illustrated press eschewed long-form texts and instead condensed complex ideological narratives into legible images, which worked as emotive political catalysts.

      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Giulia Pra Floriani EAN: 9789004777040 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: HEIGHT: 260 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2027-01-07 CITY: GENRE: PHOTOGRAPHY / General WIDTH: 193 mm SPINE:

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      Photojournalism and documentary photography, History

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      Giulia Pra Floriani is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She researches the transcultural history of modern Chinese visual culture and is co-editor of Reframing Silk: Giacomo Caneva’s Photographs of the 1859 Expedition to China (2026).

      In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China, a sociopolitical and a visual revolution unfolded simultaneously, each shaping the other. This book argues that early Chinese revolutionaries from the late Qing period through the May Fourth Movement used photojournalism as a temporal intervention to shatter the visual stagnation of nineteenth-century studio photography, pulling China out of an ossified past and demanding recognition as a modern nation on the global stage. Capturing and fueling protest against both the ruling Qing dynasty and foreign imperial powers, the illustrated press eschewed long-form texts and instead condensed complex ideological narratives into legible images, which worked as emotive political catalysts.

      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Giulia Pra Floriani EAN: 9789004777040 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: HEIGHT: 260 mm
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      Photojournalism and documentary photography, History

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      Giulia Pra Floriani is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She researches the transcultural history of modern Chinese visual culture and is co-editor of Reframing Silk: Giacomo Caneva’s Photographs of the 1859 Expedition to China (2026).

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