Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China

Sandy Ng received her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). She teaches design history and theory in the School of Design of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research examines how hybrid modernity and gender issues shape artistic representation and design.

• Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Traditional Material Culture and Lifestyles in the Age of Modernity Chapter 3: Femininity and Social Changes as seen through Meiren Hua and Advertising Posters Chapter 4: The Idealized Woman and The Tasteful Consumer Chapter 5: Female Subjectivity Chapter 6: Epilogue

"In the interaction between viewed and viewer, spectacle and spectator, it finds its raison d’être: a way of imagining the process by which female identity in early 20th-century China was redefined."-Antonia Finnane, The China Quarterly, 1-3, 2024