Visual opacity and graphic illegibility
Semiotic strategies in dang ti zi pawnshop records from colonial Macau
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24238548 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tian Shi (0000-0002-6100-326X, Macau University of Science and Technology), Huan Ding (0000-0003-3894-3875, Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College), Shuchen Deng (Macau University of Science and Technology), Yuhan Bai (Macau University of Science and Technology), Xinyue Huang (0009-0004-5496-0880, University of Malaya), XiZhi Zhang (Macau University of Science and Technology) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Pages | 1-15 |
| Publication date | 2026-10-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1472-586X • E-ISSN: 1472-5878 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1472586x.2026.2741645 |
| OpenAlex | W7222961470 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
Chinese writing system · semiotic strategies · Chinese history and philosophy · Semiotics and Representation Studies · Visual Culture and Art Theory
Lines
The Right to Look
Reading Images
What Do Pictures Want?
A cultural geography study of the spatial art and cultural features of the interior of Lingnan ancestral halls in the Ming and Qing dynasties
The Location of Culture
Documents and Bureaucracy
The highly semic processes of asemic writing
The meanings of monuments and memorials
Government paper
Listening to Images
Being Alive
In search of the social in social semiotics
Towards a multimodal ethnohistorical approach
It makes it legit”
Modern urbanscapes of Macau’s vice economy
Do Not Harm the Decorum”
The Indaganda Survey of the Prussian Frontier
Of greasy notebooks and dirty newspapers
Dear Science and Other Stories
Poetics of relation
Into the Archive
What is the issue? The transformative capacity of documents
Government of Paper
Paper, Power, and Procedure
Ruled by records
Rule of Self and Rule of Law
| Highly cited | No |
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