Selling happiness :

Laing, Ellen Johnston.

Selling happiness : calendar posters and visual culture in early twentieth-century Shanghai / Ellen Johnston Laing. - Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2004. - x, 305 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-296) and index.

Chinese popular prints in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Shanghai -- Production and marketing of advertisement calendar posters in China -- Early calendar posters and Zhang Zhiying -- Shanghai beauties and fresh starts in the second decade of the twentieth century : Zhou Muqiao -- New techniques and themes : Zheng Mantuo and Xu Yongqing -- Newspaper advertisements, advertisement calendar posters and Chinese paintings : Xie Zhiguang -- Artists at British American Tobacco : Liang Dingming, Hu Boxiang, Ni Gengye, and Zhang Guangyu -- The Zhiying Studio : Hang Zhiying, Jin Xuechen, and Li Mubai -- Calendar poster artists under the People's Republic of China, 1949-1980.

0824827643 (alk. paper)

2004002531


Advertising--China--Shanghai--Posters.
Posters, Chinese--China--Shanghai--20th century.
Calendars--China--Shanghai.
Commercial art--History--China--Shanghai--20th century.

NC1849.A29 / L35 2004

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