Manhua Modernity : Chinese Culture and the Pictorial Turn / John A. Crespi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crespi, John A., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caricature--Political aspects--China--20th century.

Caricature.

Caricature--China--History--20th century.

Caricatures and cartoons--China--History--20th century.

Caricatures and cartoons.

Communism and culture--China--History--20th century.

Communism and culture.

Political culture--China--History--20th century.

Political culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of California Press 2020

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Manhua, Magazines, Modernity

1. Shanghai Sketch and the Illustrated City

2. War, Rites of Passage, and Resistance Sketch

3. Zhang Guangyu and the Pictorial Imagination of Manhua Journey to the West

4. Propaganda and the Pictorial: Manhua yuekan, 1950–1960

Epilogue

Notes

Selected Glossary

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

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OCLC:

1154858759

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access