On the Cultural Turn of Modern Chinese Pictorials’ Studies
XU Pei
Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2013, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (3) : 124-134.
On the Cultural Turn of Modern Chinese Pictorials’ Studies
The article analyzes the relationship between modern pictorial image and modernity in the
background of the Cultural Turn. The author holds the visuality presented in the pictorials’ images
embody new types of beholding relationship. The images printed on the modern pictorials are not only
historic materials reflecting history, but also the representation of the primary stage of Chinese modernity.
It is necessary and worthy to reassess the modern pictorials in the new research paradigm by means
of Cultural Turn, which is also contributing to reflect on the overwhelmingly spreading visual culture
nowadays.
This paper is a part of the research project “ Pictorial Study of late Qing and early Ming Dynasty”(project number: 10CXW002), subsidized by National Social Science Foundation of China; Besides, this paper is also supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Sichuan
University(project number: skqx201104). Email: xupei@263.net.
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