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Appearance Politics
2024
Overview
Lex Lu argues in Appearance
Politics that crafting an appealing and
powerful outward image has long been an essential political
instrument in China. Its traces may be found in historical
records, imperial portraits, physiognomic prognostications,
photographs, posters, statues, and digital images. Employing rare
archival materials from Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing, Lu tells
the story of these political maneuverings. We learn the ways in
which political actors and their agents designed their images, and
we observe the shifting standards of male beauty that guided their
decisions.
Appearance Politics examines five case studies: the
usurpation of Ming Prince Zhu Di; the rise of Manchu masculinity
and its mixed standards of Han Chinese and Manchu beauty at the
Yongzheng court; the use of modern photography and Western male
beauty standards at the turn of the twentieth century; the making
of the Republican founding father Sun Yat-sen; and the creation of
visual templates of Mao Zedong. Lu's rich empirical study counters
systematic stereotypical descriptions of Chinese male leadership
embedded in Western media and scholarship.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Asia
/ Beauty, Personal -- Political aspects -- China
/ China
/ Clothing and dress -- Political aspects -- China
/ Cultural
/ HISTORY
/ Masculinity -- Political aspects -- China
/ Politicians -- China -- Public opinion -- History
/ Power (Social sciences) -- China -- History
ISBN
9781501777851, 1501777858, 1501777866, 9781501777868, 9781501777875, 1501777874
