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Selling Happiness - Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai
by Laing, Ellen Johnston
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0824827643
- ISBN 13
- 9780824827649
- Seller
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Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 0824827643 . "From the early twentieth century until the Communist takeover in 1949, Shanghai commercial artists created thousands of colorful posters and black-and-white advertisements that formed an essential part of modern life in the city. This visually appealing and richly illustrated book describes the origin and evolution of modern commercial art in China, focusing on colorful advertisement calendar posters that featured distinctive feminine images. A monumental study of the most important genre of modern Chinese commercial art." - dust jacket. 305 glossy pages generously illustrated in color and black and white. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Very clean, bright, tight and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy.; Sm 4to .
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- Bookseller
- RareNonFiction.com
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 652j0869
- Title
- Selling Happiness - Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai
- Author
- Laing, Ellen Johnston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0824827643
- ISBN 13
- 9780824827649
- Publisher
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Place of Publication
- Honolulu
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- 0824827643, Advertising - China - Shanghai - Posters, Posters - Chinese - China - Shanghai - 20th Century, Calendars - China - Shanghai, Commercial Art - China - Shanghai - History - 20th Century
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Asia; Ephemera;
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