Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s is a study of formal and informal meanings of Haipai ("Shanghai School" or "Shanghai Style"), as seen through the paintings of the Shanghai school as well as other media of visual representation. The book provides us a point of entry into the nexus of relationships that structured the encounter between China and the West as experienced by...(展开全部)

Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s is a study of formal and informal meanings of Haipai ("Shanghai School" or "Shanghai Style"), as seen through the paintings of the Shanghai school as well as other media of visual representation. The book provides us a point of entry into the nexus of relationships that structured the encounter between China and the West as experienced by...(展开全部)

弗雷德里克·刘易斯·艾伦，研究美国20世纪前半时期的知名历史学家。曾任《世纪》杂志和《哈珀》杂志主编。 其最为著名的著作就是人们津津乐道的“美利坚帝国成长三部曲”系列：《大繁荣时代》（Only Yesterday）、《大衰退时代》（Since Yesterday）和《大转型时代》（The Big Change ）。此外，他还著有《保罗·R.雷诺兹》、《伟大的摩根》、《万物之灵》、《看美国》等书。

Visual Culture is an introductory textbook book on visual literacy, exploring how meaning is both made and transmitted in an increasingly visual world. It is designed to introduce students to the analysis of all kinds of visual texts, whether drawings, paintings, photographs, films, advertisements, television programmes or new media forms. The book is illustrated with copious e...(展开全部)

Visual Culture is an introductory textbook book on visual literacy, exploring how meaning is both made and transmitted in an increasingly visual world. It is designed to introduce students to the analysis of all kinds of visual texts, whether drawings, paintings, photographs, films, advertisements, television programmes or new media forms. The book is illustrated with copious e...(展开全部)

This is a revised, expanded, and updated edition of the highly successful Visual Culture . Like its predecessor, this new version is about visual literacy, exploring how meaning is both made and transmitted in an increasingly visual world. It is designed to introduce students and other interested readers to the analysis of all kinds of visual text, whether drawings, paintings,...(展开全部)

In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster sha...(展开全部)

In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster sha...(展开全部)

"Fashion Sourcebook - 1930s" documents the season-by-season fashions of this remarkable decade with an impressive selection of over 600 original photographs, sketches and prints. A comprehensive guide to Thirties fashion this is an essential handbook for fashion students, vintage collectors as well as anyone interested in fashion or cultural history. With its elegant silk tea-d...(展开全部)

In this fascinating book, Catherine Yeh explores the Shanghai entertainment world at the close of the Qing dynasty. Established in the 1850s outside the old walled city, the Shanghai Foreign Settlements were administered by Westerners and so were not subject to the strict authority of the Chinese government. At the centre of this dynamic new culture that emerged was the courtes...(展开全部)