Selling happiness : calendar posters and visual culture in early twentieth-century Shanghai

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Title:	Selling happiness : calendar posters and visual culture in early twentieth-century Shanghai
Author:	Laing, Ellen Johnston
Date:	c2004
Publisher:	Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press
Description:	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. Table of contents also available via World Wide Web x, 305 p. ill. (some col.) 27 cm
Identifier:	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0414/2004002531.html ISBN:0824827643 (alk. paper)
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/23075
Keywords:	Advertising -- China -- Shanghai, Posters, Chinese -- China -- Shanghai, Calendars -- China -- Shanghai, Commercial art -- China -- Shanghai -- History