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Author Crespi, John A., author

Title Manhua modernity : Chinese culture and the pictorial turn / John A. Crespi
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
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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
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
Analysis Social Science
Media Studies
Art
Asian
Chinese
Performing Arts
Film
History & Criticism
Notes "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject 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
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020016293
ISBN 9780520973862
0520973860