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- Title
Decolonizing Shanghai: Design and Material Culture in the Photographs of Hu Yang.
- Authors
Tai, Earl
- Abstract
The article focuses on the post-colonial culture in Shanghai and the social and economic conditions via a discussion of "Shanghai Renjia" or "Shanghai Living," a collection of portraits by Shanghai photographer Hu Yang. The design of Shanghai's material and visual cultures, the influence of Western society and commercial culture on the retail market, the role of globalization in hybridity and cultural transition, the Chinese identity and poverty, and the use of binarisms such as East and West to categorize culture in cross-cultural analysis.
- Subjects
SHANGHAI (China); HISTORY of Shanghai, China; DECOLONIZATION; CULTURAL identity; HISTORIOGRAPHY &; photography; HU Yang; PHOTOGRAPHERS
- Publication
Design Issues, 2009, Vol 25, Issue 3, p30
- ISSN
0747-9360
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/desi.2009.25.3.30