[DOC] Never Don't Pay Attention: The Life of Rodeo Photographer Louise L. Serpa by Jan Cleere in Arts-Photography

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This book provides a critical study of how China was represented on the historical London stage in selected examples from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth centurymdash;which corresponds with the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911); Chinarsquo;s last monarchy. The examples show that during this historical period; the stage representations of the country were influenced in turn by Jesuit writings on China; Britainrsquo;s expanding material interest in China; the presence of British imperial power in Asia; and the establishment of diasporic Chinese communities abroad. While finding that many of these works may be read as gendered and feminized; Chang emphasizes that the Jesuitsrsquo; depiction of China as a country of high culture and in perennial conflict with the Tartars gradually lost prominence in dramatic imaginations to depictions of Chinarsquo;s material and visual attractions. Central to the bookrsquo;s argument is that the stage representations of China were inherently intercultural and open to new influences; manifested by the evolving combinations of Chinese and English (British) traits. Through the dramatization of the Chinese Other; the representations questioned; satirized; and put in sharp relief the ontological and epistemological bases of the English (British) Self.