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

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 wh...

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Superior document:Ideas, History, and Modern China, Volume 12
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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.
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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.