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Manhua modernity : Chinese culture and the pictorial turn /

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"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&...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crespi, John A. (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Subjects:
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.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
Caricature.
Caricatures and cartoons.
Communism and culture.
Political culture.
China.
1900-1999
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.