Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture

Author/Contributor(s):	Wu, Shengqing
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	12/08/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Shengqing Wu explores how the new medium of photography was transformed by Chinese aesthetic culture. She details the complex negotiations between poetry and photography in the late Qing and early Republican eras, examining the ways traditional textual forms collaborated with the new visual culture.