Abbreviations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Note to the Reader xi
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction: All Things Visible and Invisible 1
6. 1. New Lives, New Optics: Missionary Modernity and Visual Practices in Interwar Republican China 25
7. 2. Converting Visions: Photographic Mediations of Catholic Identity in West Hunan, 1921–1929 59
8. 3. The Movie Camera and the Mission: Vernacular Filmmaking as China-US Bridge, 1931–1936 95
9. 4. Chaos in Three Frames: Fragmented Imaging and the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945 141
10. 5. Memento Mori: Loss, Nostalgia, and the Future in Postwar Missionary Visuality 185
11. Epilogue: Latent Images 229
12. Acknowledgments 243
13. Notes 249
14. Glossary of Chinese Terms 287
15. Index 297