“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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Mr. and Mrs. Stemberding
Mr. and Mrs. Stemberding
The 5 Ugly Lessons Hiding in Every Superhero Movie
The 5 Ugly Lessons Hiding in Every Superhero Movie Is the sudden, raging success of this genre a sign of a toxic corruption in the collective soul of our society? Probably!
Chinese Lianhuanhua: A Century of Pirated Movies
Seeing that Eric Abrahamsen’s translation of Xu Zechen’s Running Through Beijing was released by Two Lines Press earlier this month, it seems appropriate to sketch out a tradition of movie pirating that existed in mainland China before the advent of bootlegged DVDs: This is a lianhuanhua 連環畫 adaptation of Star Wars which historian Maggie Greene picked […]
Little Smarty Visits the Future 小灵通漫游未来: A Science Fiction Novel (Part 1 of 6)
What follows is the first instalment of a six-part draft translation of Ye Yonglie’s 叶永烈 (1940–2020) classic illustrated children’s chapter book Little Smarty Visits the Future 《小灵通漫游未来》, first published by Young Children’s Press 少年儿童出版社 in Shanghai in August, 1978, with illustrations by Du Jianguo 杜建国. Ye passed away on May 15 of this year, and […]
Presentism and Comics Studies
Earlier this week, I received some comments from a reader regarding my research focus to “understand Chinese comics from the perspective of the present,” included in a previous post on this blog. The reader warned that this position could be interpreted as an expression of “presentism.” In light of this, I thought I might share […]
Lectures and Presentations
2025 • (forthcoming) “The Fast and the Scurrilous: On comics and cartoons in Shanghai in the 1920s and beyond.” Invited talk for the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium, organised by Ben Katchor, The New School, 21 January 2025. 2024 • “Holding Out For a Hero: The Production, Distribution, and Reception of Xianxia Fiction in […]
Writing
IN-PROGRESS MONOGRAPHS • (dissertation book) Paper Cinema: Global Sci-fi and Comic Books in Early Reform-era China (1978–1989). Currently revising, expected publication 2026. ESSAYS AND REVIEWS • (forthcoming) “Enlarged Print: Blurring the Line Between Acceptability and Legibility in Special Comix.” Book chapter in Sinophone Comics: New Perspectives, edited by Adina Zemanek. De Gruyter, 2024. • (forthcoming) […]
Oregon Native
Not an obituary.
The Fake Foreign Devil is Great!
I haven’t posted much on here over the past year that I’ve been at Cambridge, and in part that’s because my work (as with most first year PhDs I think) has been pretty scattered. I’ve been reading a lot, and writing a lot, but very little of what I’ve written seems particularly blog-able. I do […]