“Inspection and Supervision” by Ding Cong, 1987
“Inspection and Supervision” by Ding Cong, 1987 (Reprinted in the International Journal of Comic Art, Fall 2010)
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The Shanghai Manhua Society
Appendix: Tables
Table A.1 Major manhua artists and publishers by decade, 1884-1917 Members of the 1926 Manhua Society are marked in bold. Pre-1900 Zhang Meisun 張眉孫 (1884-1975) Sun Xueni孫雪泥 (1888-1965) Shen Bochen沈泊塵 (1889-1920) Ding Song丁松 (1891-1972) Zhou Shoujuan周瘦鵑 (1895-1968) Feng Zikai 豐子愷 (1898-1975) Wang Dunqing王敦慶 (1899-1990) 1900-1910 Zhang Guangyu 張光宇 […]
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Chapter 5: The Breaking of the Fellowship
This is the fifth chapter in my MA thesis, The Shanghai Manhua Society: A History of Early Chinese Cartoonists, 1918-1938, completed in December 2015 at the Department of Asian Studies at UBC. Since passing my defense, I’ve decided to put the whole thing up online so that my research will be available to the rest […]
The Interbellum Manhua Boom
Between World War I and World War II China experienced it’s first boom in the production and appreciation of cartoons and manhua. Although several notable cartoon and proto-cartoon publications predate World War I (and more importantly in China, the collapse of the Qing in 1911),1 it is the 1920s and 1930s which saw comic strips […]
Zhang Shijie’s 張士傑 Fisher Boy 漁童: Transformative Nationalism in New China
The following is based on a presentation I gave for the 2017 Association of Asian Studies annual conference in Toronto as part of the panel Materia Manhuanica: Reading Chinese Cartoons on March 16, 2017. Funding for this panel was generously provided by the Huang Yao Foundation, with Eileen Chow serving as discussant. Additional revisions were […]
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Chapter 6: The Legacy
This is the sixth chapter in my MA thesis, The Shanghai Manhua Society: A History of Early Chinese Cartoonists, 1918-1938, completed in December 2015 at the Department of Asian Studies at UBC. Since passing my defense, I’ve decided to put the whole thing up online so that my research will be available to the rest […]
The Shanghai Manhua Society
Chapter 3: Wild Cards
This is the third chapter in my MA thesis, The Shanghai Manhua Society: A History of Early Chinese Cartoonists, 1918-1938, completed in December 2015 at the Department of Asian Studies at UBC. Since passing my defense, I’ve decided to put the whole thing up online so that my research will be available to the rest […]
The Shanghai Manhua Society
Bibliography
Ames, Roger T., tran. The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation. Random House Publishing Group, 2010. Andrews, Julia F. Painters and Politics in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1979. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Andrews, Julia Frances. “Pictorial Shanghai (Shanghai Huabao, 1925-1933) and Creation of Shanghai’s Modern Visual Culture.” Journal of Art Studies no. […]
A Comics Industry with Chinese Characteristics: Manhua Publishing in the PRC and Hong Kong
Recently, I have been working on a few projects to get Chinese comics published in English translation. It’s a tricky proposition, given the limited “brand name recognition” for manhua outside of China, in comparison to the much better known (and therefore more marketable) Japanese manga. Cover to issue #43 of Comicfans’ weekly Comic World 漫畫世界, […]
ICAF 2014: Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the International Comic Arts Forum at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum at the Ohio State University: Going into ICAF, I really didn’t know what to expect, but like other first time attendees I was immediately struck by how friendly and outgoing everyone was. There was […]