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Author Crespi, John A., author.

Title Manhua modernity : Chinese culture and the pictorial turn / John A. Crespi.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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. (OCoLC)fst00847525
Caricatures and cartoons. (OCoLC)fst00847532
Communism and culture. (OCoLC)fst00870489
Political culture. (OCoLC)fst01069263
China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Crespi, John A.. Manhua modernity Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] 9780520309104 (DLC) 2020016292
ISBN 9780520973862 (electronic book)
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