Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World

Charles A. Laughlin is Ellen Bayard Weedon Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Virginia.Li Guo is Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies at Utah State University.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements Introduction: “From Reportage to Nonfiction Art: New Perspectives from the Chinese-Speaking World” Li Guo and Charles A. LaughlinI. Contesting Chinese Reportage1. “The Poetics and Praxis of Zhang Mengqi’s Documentary Films” Thomas Moran2. “Forest Chongqing: A Photographic Reportage by Yan Wang Preston” Federica Mirra3. “Reincarnations of Labor Reportage: Nonfiction by Chinese Migrant Worker Authors” Federico PicerniII. Envisioning Taiwanese Reportage4. “Gu Mengren and Reportage in 1970s Taiwan” Charles A. Laughlin5. “Stoic Heroism: Making ‘Photojournalist’ a Professional Identity in Ren Jian Magazine’s International Section” Po-hsi Chen6. “Reportage, Photography, and the Ekphrastic Encounter: On Moon Children by Liao Chia-chan and Yan Hsin-chu” Li GuoIII. Race, Indigeneity, and Border-Crossings 7. “Tales of Chinese Coolies in Late Qing Labor Reportage” Ping Zhu8. “Transforming the ‘Barbarian’ Margins into Multiethnic National Centers: Photographic Reportage and Ethnic Imagination in Republican-era China” Yanshuo Zhang9. “Chinese-in-Japan Documentary and Media Reportage in the New Millennium: Toward a Disjunctive History of Transnational Affectivity” Ran MaEpilogue: “The Rebirth of Reportage in the New Age” Charles A. Laughlin and Li GuoList of ContributorsIndex