Chinese government graphics
One thing that you notice when you look at Chinese government reports and such from the 20’s 30’s and 40’s is how amazing the graphics are. I ...
Category: visual culture
To love the nation, you must buy a poster
A while back I posted about a poster from the Chinese Posters site, lamenting that they did not seem to have a copy of “To Love the Country You Must First...
Visual Digital History
Laura Putnam has an article out in the new issue of AHR “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast“ One...
The Oriental and its readership
Here are two pictures The one on the right is a cigarette ad from the 1930s. The one on the left is the Chinese aviatrix Lee Ya-Ching, who I have mentioned befo...
Mei Lanfang and Bertold Brecht
Looking for a nice little piece on Mei Lanfang’s 1935 Moscow performances witnessed by (among others) Bertold Brecht? Here you go. There is a nice...
For my next impression, Josephine Owens!
This is a cover from the Shanghai magazine Modern Sketch. If you want to learn more about the magazine, you can go here. What I find interesting about this cove...
Teaching Japan with films
Next semester I will be teaching a class on Modern Japan (Meiji to the present) and I was thinking of having them watch some films. I am guessing this will be d...
Understanding China-The interview
Stone Bridge Press is bringing out a deluxe edition of Jing Liu’s Understanding China Through Comics, which I have been reviewing here and enjoying very m...
Patriotic, airminded, Mahjong
Via Peter Harmsen’s WW2 In China blog I found a link to this post from Mahjong Treasures. The post describes a mysterious Mahjong set that left China in t...
Women and jewlery
Here is a great picture of Madame Chiang Kai-shek via Getty it’s an interesting picture, at least for me, since it ties in with a couple of interesting t...
Understanding China
Understanding China through Comics Volume 4 is out! As I have reviewed the other volumes, I was sent a free copy of this one. This volume deals with the Ming a...
Manhua Journey to the West
I have mentioned Nick Stember before, but now he is doing a full translation of Zhang Guangyu’s manhua version of Journey to the West. This is worth looki...
Pictures of Japan
Do you teach about Japan? If so you might want to check out the Toshidma Gallery. Teaching is always better with pictures, and if you do Japan you are probably ...
Understanding China Through Comics
The third volume of Understanding China Through Comics is out, and it is good. In my previous reviews I talked about how well the books explained Chinese histor...
I would totally buy this, and so would you.
Chinese Posters sells copies of some of its stuff, but not of this. “To love the country one must first know its history”1 This would look perfect i...