Roberta Wue, “Art Worlds: Artists, Images, and Audiences in Late 19th-Century Shanghai” (U of Hawaii Press, 2014)

Roberta Wue‘s new book brings readers into the world of late Qing Shanghai, a center of art, culture, and entertainment. As artists fled to the city after the Taiping Rebellion, they helped create new ways of being an artist that emerged from new kinds of relationships between them, their audiences,...

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