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Research Articles

Revisiting a de-Humanized Shanghai: Speculative Realism in Zhou Ming’s Contemporary Object-Oriented Materialist Documentary Photography

Pages 79-100 | Received 17 Feb 2023, Accepted 11 Apr 2024, Published online: 22 May 2024

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