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Book The Cartoonist Feng Zikai

Download or read book The Cartoonist Feng Zikai written by Christoph Harbsmeier and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Artistic Exile

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  • Author : Geremie Barmé
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2002-12-03
  • ISBN : 9780520208322
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book An Artistic Exile written by Geremie Barmé and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-12-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book War and Popular Culture

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  • Author : Chang-tai Hung
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-12-22
  • ISBN : 0520354869
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book War and Popular Culture written by Chang-tai Hung and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popular cultural forms—especially dramas, cartoons, and newspapers—to reach out to the rural audience and galvanize support for the war cause. While the Nationalists used popular culture as a patriotic tool, the Communists refashioned it into a socialist propaganda instrument, creating lively symbols of peasant heroes and joyful images of village life under their rule. In the end, Hung argues, the Communists' use of popular culture contributed to their victory in revolution.

Book Feng Zikai hua bi xia di Lu Xun xiao shou xuan

Download or read book Feng Zikai hua bi xia di Lu Xun xiao shou xuan written by Zikai Feng and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Feng Zikai

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  • Author : Geremie Barmé
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1148 pages

Download or read book Feng Zikai written by Geremie Barmé and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Feng Zikai man hua xuan  Selection of Feng Zik ai s cartoons

Download or read book Feng Zikai man hua xuan Selection of Feng Zik ai s cartoons written by Huazhan Feng and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Animation and Socialism

Download or read book Chinese Animation and Socialism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English on Chinese animation and socialism that introduces the insider viewpoints of socialist animators at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. A timely and useful reference book for researchers, students, animators, and fans interested in Chinese and even world animation.

Book In a Sea of Bitterness

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  • Author : R. Keith Schoppa
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2011-11-30
  • ISBN : 0674062981
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book In a Sea of Bitterness written by R. Keith Schoppa and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese invasion of Shanghai in 1937 led some thirty million Chinese to flee their homes in terror, and live—in the words of artist and writer Feng Zikai—“in a sea of bitterness” as refugees. Keith Schoppa paints a comprehensive picture of the refugee experience in one province—Zhejiang, on the central Chinese coast—where the Japanese launched major early offensives as well as notorious later campaigns. He recounts stories of both heroes and villains, of choices poorly made amid war’s bewildering violence, of risks bravely taken despite an almost palpable quaking fear. As they traveled south into China’s interior, refugees stepped backward in time, sometimes as far as the nineteenth century, their journeys revealing the superficiality of China’s modernization. Memoirs and oral histories allow Schoppa to follow the footsteps of the young and old, elite and non-elite, as they fled through unfamiliar terrain and coped with unimaginable physical and psychological difficulties. Within the context of Chinese culture, being forced to leave home was profoundly threatening to one’s sense of identity. Not just people but whole institutions also fled from Japanese occupation, and Schoppa considers schools, governments, and businesses as refugees with narratives of their own. Local governments responded variously to Japanese attacks, from enacting scorched-earth policies to offering rewards for the capture of plague-infected rats in the aftermath of germ warfare. While at times these official procedures improved the situation for refugees, more often—as Schoppa describes in moving detail—they only deepened the tragedy.

Book Manhua Modernity

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  • Author : John A. Crespi
  • Publisher : University of California Press
  • Release : 2020-12-25
  • ISBN : 0520309103
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Manhua Modernity written by John A. Crespi and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book A New Year s Reunion

Download or read book A New Year s Reunion written by Li-Qiong Yu and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling disconnected from the father whose work keeps him from home the rest of the year, Maomao enjoys a Chinese New Year visit marked by such activities as making sticky rice balls, watching a dragon dance, and searching for a hidden lucky coin.

Book Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open Air Painting

Download or read book Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open Air Painting written by Yi Gu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How did modern Chinese painters see landscape? Did they depict nature in the same way as premodern Chinese painters? What does the artistic perception of modern Chinese painters reveal about the relationship between artists and the nation-state? Could an understanding of modern Chinese landscape painting tell us something previously unknown about art, political change, and the epistemological and sensory regime of twentieth-century China? Yi Gu tackles these questions by focusing on the rise of open-air painting in modern China. Chinese artists almost never painted outdoors until the late 1910s, when the New Culture Movement prompted them to embrace direct observation, linear perspective, and a conception of vision based on Cartesian optics. The new landscape practice brought with it unprecedented emphasis on perception and redefined artistic expertise. Central to the pursuit of open-air painting from the late 1910s right through to the early 1960s was a reinvigorated and ever-growing urgency to see suitably as a Chinese and to see the Chinese homeland correctly. Examining this long-overlooked ocular turn, Gu not only provides an innovative perspective from which to reflect on complicated interactions of the global and local in China, but also calls for rethinking the nature of visual modernity there."

Book Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River

Download or read book Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River written by Ye Luying and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River is an ancient Chinese poem created by Cao Zhi, a writer living in the state of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period (c. 220-280 CE). In his tale, Cao Zhi is returning from the capital to his own land when he stops at the Luo River for a rest, where he sees a vision of the goddess so powerful that he instantly falls in love with her. Cao sees a nymph of peerless beauty “as elegant as a startled swan and supple as a swimming dragon”. Though he’s swept away by her ethereal beauty, it’s a love that isn’t meant to be. With its high production values and amazingly-detailed-multi-page foldout spreads, this is a special book that will entice art lovers of all ages.

Book A Feng Zikai Reader

Download or read book A Feng Zikai Reader written by 丰子恺 and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of Resistance

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  • Author : Shelley Drake Hawks
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2017-11-20
  • ISBN : 0295741961
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book The Art of Resistance written by Shelley Drake Hawks and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Resistance surveys the lives of seven painters—Ding Cong (1916–2009), Feng Zikai (1898–1975), Li Keran (1907–89), Li Kuchan (1898–1983), Huang Yongyu (b. 1924), Pan Tianshou (1897–1971), and Shi Lu (1919–82)—during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), a time when they were considered counterrevolutionary and were forbidden to paint. Drawing on interviews with the artists and their families and on materials collected during her visits to China, Shelley Drake Hawks examines their painting styles, political outlooks, and life experiences. These fiercely independent artists took advantage of moments of low surveillance to secretly “paint by candlelight.” In doing so, they created symbolically charged art that is open to multiple interpretations. The wit, courage, and compassion of these painters will inspire respect for the deep emotional and spiritual resonance of Chinese art. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/art-of-resistance

Book Bibbit Jumps

Download or read book Bibbit Jumps written by Bei Lynn and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibbit is a little frog who sometimes forgets how to swim--but he's a jumping expert. He can jump very high, very far, and in many different ways. Although this is a great advantage, he feels nervous about what the day will bring; he knows he's not perfect. Join Bibbit on a journey through ten ordinary but special days, in which he takes life on, enjoying every moment. This is a charming, illustrated chapter book and wonderful read-aloud, full of rhythm and resonance.

Book Modern Asian Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Clark
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780824821425
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Modern Asian Art written by John Clark and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seminal publication focusing on the modern art of Japan, China, India, Thailand, and Indonesia. A significant and challenging contribution to the discussion of the advent of modernism in Asia.