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Manhua modernity : Chinese culture and the pictorial turn /

"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
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crespi, John A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.