Selling Happiness

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Selling Happiness is written by Ellen Johnston Laing and published by University of Hawaii Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0824827643 (ISBN 10) and 9780824827649 (ISBN 13).

"As the first substantial investigation of commercial art in China, Selling Happiness explains how the early twentieth century Chinese public came in accept Western style art as mainstream and the heretofore ignored process by which the Chinese art world became (in some sectors at least) thoroughly cosmopolitan. A monumental study of the most important genre of modern Chinese commercial art, this volume will appeal not only to historians of Chinese art but also to those interested in literary, economic, and social history. It will be an essential resource for comparative studies of visual culture."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved