{"product_id":"a-modern-miscellany-shanghai-cartoon-artists-shao-xunmei-s-circle-and-the-travels-of-jack-chen-1926-1938-9789004307933","title":"A Modern Miscellany: Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei’s Circle and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 in general. That is because it traces the ideological development of Shanghai artists and writers, who were the avant-garde of the whole country, from the aestheticism of Shao Xunmei to the leftist activism of Lu Xun. In this respect, Shanghai’s literati, unusual though they were, might be seen as a microcosm of Chinese society at the time. Furthermore, the book is relevant to current cross-cultural studies, since it is mainly about how Chinese artists adapted European sources to their own needs and styles at a time when China was trying to forge a modern identity. Finally, anyone interested in the place and time will appreciate Bevan’s reconstruction of its art scene and the interrelations of the characters in it.\"  Hal Swindall, Jinan University, China Review International, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2015    \"I owe a great debt to academics and Sinologists…now add Paul Bevan to the list…a fantastic new book on old Shanghai”  Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking (2011) and City of Devils (2018).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Note on the Illustrations  List of Illustrations  Notes on Romanization and References  Notes on Sources    Introduction      A Modern Miscellany      The Cartoon as Part of the Modern Art Scene in Shanghai      The Manhuahu    i Part 1: The Beginnings of the Modern Chinese Cartoon  Chapter 1: Manhua Artists in Shanghai       Marc Chadourne and Paul Morand       Vanity Fair       Western Models of Art and Literature in Shanghai manhua       English Decadence in Shanghai       The Modern and the Decadent—The Cubist Shanghai Life, Lust, and Snake and Woman      Conclusion     Chapter 2:  Shao Xunmei and his Circle       Shao Xunmei and Pictorial Magazines       Shao Xunmei and Salon Culture       The Yunshang Fashion Company       The Zhang Brothers—Designers       A Depiction of Shao Xunmei by Wang Zimei       A Letter to Emily Hahn    Part 2: Adoption of Foreign Models in Art and Literature  Chapter 3: Miguel Covarrubias       Covarrubias Goes to China: 1930       Covarrubias Goes to China Again: 1933       Covarrubias’s Illustrations to Chine (China)       Chinese Artists and the Covarrubias Style       “Impossible Interviews”       Large-scale Group Caricatures       Ding Cong and the Mexican Muralists      The Legacy of Covarrubias    Chapter 4: The Chinese Cartoonists and George Grosz      The Art of George Grosz in Shanghai      George Grosz and China      Proponents of the “Grosz-style”      A Foreigner’s View of the Grosz Imitators      Cai Ruohong: China’s “New Grosz”?      The Chinese View of Grosz’s Work      Conclusion     Part 3: The Dissemination of Chinese Political Art   Chapter 5: Jack Chen in China      Chen Arrives in Shanghai      The Cartoons of Jack Chen in Shanghai      Chen and Soviet Socialist Realism      The Letters of Jack Chen      From China to Moscow and London: The Beginnings of Chen’s World Tour      Anthony Blunt: A Champion of Chen’s Cause    Chapter 6: The First National Cartoon Exhibition      A Suitable Venue: The Sun Company Building      The Exhibition      News in the Shanghai Press      Jack Chen: The Only Foreign Exhibitor      Portraiture: A Genre for Political Persuasion?      The Paintings of Hua Lu: Lacking a Political Message?      Surrealism: Modern Art and the Manhua Artists      Cai Ruohong Remembers      Foreigners on Manhua: Two Contrasting Views      A Review by Jack Chen      An Anonymous Critique      Zhang Guangyu’s Cover Design for Manhuajie      Manhua: An Art for China’s Future    Chapter 7: Chinese Art and its Part in the Worldwide Fight against Fascism      Hong Kong: First Port of Call      Guangzhou: Caught in the Air Raids      Chen is Sent to Europe and America         Hu Kao: A Shanghai Cartoonist      Hu Kao and Jack Chen go to Yan’an      Hong Kong: Last Port of Call      Epilogue      Conclusion     Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210679673175,"sku":"9789004307933","price":166.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-modern-miscellany-shanghai-cartoon-artists-shao-xunmei-s-circle-and-the-travels-of-jack-chen-1926-1938-9789004307933","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}