A modern miscellany : : Shanghai cartoon artists, Shao Xunmei's circle and the travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938 / / by Paul Bevan.

• Superior document: Ideas, History, and Modern China, Volume 12
• VerfasserIn: Bevan, Paul, Ph. D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Ideas, history, and modern China ; Volume 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (407 p.)
• Notes: Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 2012) under title: Manhua artists in Shanghai 1926-1938 : from art-for-art's-sake to wartime propaganda.

In A Modern Miscellany: Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei’s Circle and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938 Paul Bevan explores how the cartoon (manhua) emerged from its place in the Chinese modern art world to become a propaganda tool in the hands of left-wing artists. The artists involved in what was largely a transcultural phenomenon were an eclectic group working in the areas of fashion and commercial art and design. The book demonstrates that during the build up to all-out war the cartoon was not only important in the sphere of Shanghai popular culture in the eyes of the publishers and readers of pictorial magazines but that it occupied a central place in the primary discourse of Chinese modern art history.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Illustrations -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Romanization and References -- Note on Sources -- Introduction -- The Beginnings of the Modern Chinese Cartoon -- Manhua Artists in Shanghai -- Shao Xunmei and his Circle / Shao Xunmei and Pictorial Magazines -- Adoption of Foreign Models in Art and Literature -- Miguel Covarrubias -- The Chinese Cartoonists and George Grosz -- The Dissemination of Chinese Political Art -- Jack Chen in China -- The First National Cartoon Exhibition -- Chinese Art and its Part in the Worldwide Fight against Fascism -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.