Selling Happiness: Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai
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From the early twentieth century until the Communist takeover in 1949, Shanghai commercial artists created thousands of
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter One. Introduction
Chapter Two. Chinese Popular Prints in Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai
Chapter Three. Production and Marketing of Advertisement Calendar Posters in China
Chapter Four. Early Calendar Posters and Zhang Zhiying
Chapter Five. Shanghai Beauties and Fresh Starts in the Second Decade of the Twentieth Century: Zhou Muqiao
Chapter Six. New Techniques and Themes: Zheng Mantuo and Xu Yongqing
Chapter Seven. Newspaper Advertisements, Advertisement Calendar Posters, and Chinese Paintings: Xie Zhiguang
Chapter Eight. Artists at British American Tobacco: Liang Dingming, Hu Boxiang, Ni Gengye, and Zhang Guangyu
Chapter Nine. The Zhiying Studio: Hang Zhiying, Jin Xuechen, and Li Mubai
Chapter Ten. Calendar Poster Artists under the People’s Republic of China 1949–1980
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author