A Modern Miscellany

Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei's Circle and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938

By: Paul Bevan

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Hardcover | 6 November 2015

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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.

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"The book supports its two arguments through exhaustive engagement with primary sources, drawn mainly from an impressive array of newspapers and pictorial magazines, both English and Chinese, as well as letters and other ephemera from multiple archives. A Modern Miscellany does an excellent job of fact-checking biographical detail on China's cartoonists and their associates. [...] With its careful scholarship and respect for historical accuracy, A Modern Miscellany helps lay a foundation for many years of manhua research to come." John A Crespi, Colgate University, MCLC Resource Center, August 2016

"This volume is a major contribution to modern Chinese studies...anyone interested in the place [Shanghai] and time will appreciate Bevan's reconstruction of its art scene and the interrelations of the characters in it. Bevan's chapter on Shao [Xunmei's] role in Shanghai's entre-guerre art scene is an invaluable contribution to scholarship on this little-known figure, on whom very little has been published until recently." Hal Swindall, Jinan University, China Review International, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2015

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