“What should a Chinese woman look like?”:

Chinese women represented in film

Presented by: Brianna Blackwood-Mallory

Empress Dowager Cixi with foreign envoys’ wives in Leshoutang, Summer Palace, Beijing China, Qing dynasty, 1903-1904, glass plate negative SC GR 249. in Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC

Xia Yu and Xing Yufei star in the film 'Shadow Magic.’Getty Images, Jun 20, 2001

Soap advertisement from 1930’s Shanghai

Zhou Xuan 周旋 (1918 — 1957)

Propaganda Poster, 1961 (?)

The World 世界 . Dir. Jia Zhangke . Columbia, 2004, Zeitgeist. Film.