Book/Printed Material Manhua modernity : Chinese culture and the pictorial turn

Title

• Manhua modernity : Chinese culture and the pictorial turn

Summary

• "From fashion sketches of smartly dressed Shanghai dandies in the 1920s, to multipanel drawings of refugee urbanites during the war against Japan, to panoramic pictures of anti-American propaganda rallies in the early 1950s, the polymorphic cartoon-style art known as manhua helped define China's modern experience. Manhua Modernity offers a richly illustrated, deeply contextualized analysis of these illustrations across the lively pages of popular pictorial magazines that entertained, informed, and mobilized a nation through a half century of political and cultural transformation. In this compelling media history, John Crespi argues that manhua must be understood in the context of the pictorial magazines that hosted them, and in turn these magazines must be seen as important mediators of the modern urban experience. Even as times changed-from interwar-era consumerism to war-time mobilization to Mao-style propaganda-the art form adapted to stay on the cutting edge of both politics and style"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

• Crespi, John A., author

Created / Published

• Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
• ©2020

Contents

• Introduction : manhua, magazines, modernity -- Shanghai sketch and the illustrated city -- War, rites of passage, and resistance sketch -- Beyond satire : the pictorial imagination of manhua journey to the West -- Propaganda and the pictorial : Manhua yuekan, 1950-1952.

Headings

• -  Caricature--China--History--20th century
• -  Caricatures and cartoons--China--History--20th century
• -  Caricature--Political aspects--China--20th century
• -  Communism and culture--China--History--20th century
• -  Political culture--China--History--20th century

Notes

• -  "A Philip E. Lilienthal book".
• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

• 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

• NC1696

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2020016293

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2020016293

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International CC BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• epub

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2020016293

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