Cartoon as Weapon and as Victim: Instructive and Critical Texts in Manhua Magazine, 1950–1960
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Cartoon as Weapon and as Victim: Instructive and Critical Texts in Manhua Magazine, 1950–1960
Original language description
Production of information in a state that endeavours to involve the whole population in mass campaigns means that a great effort is required of people working in mass media. In a newly-established state, such as what the People's Republic of China was in the years after 1949, the mechanisms of such effort were only just being shaped. Therefore, official intentions and instructions were transmitted through the minds and pens of authors who themselves struggled to grasp the essence of their tasks. Political cartoons provide an interesting case study thanks to the existence of a cartoon magazine, Manhua, between 1950-1960. The body of texts published in the magazine together with cartoons provides a lot of material for the analysis of what was required of cartoonists in the "new society" and how they interpreted such requirements, as well as for what they were criticised by readers, colleagues, and country leadership. By closely following instructive and critical texts about cartoons in Manhua, this paper traces the diverging understandings of cartoon and satire in China's political and artistic circles of the time, focuses on the misinterpretations of cartoons by readers, and analyses cartoonists' statements admitting or assigning guilt. It comes to the conclusion that the multitude of these texts in Manhua led not so much to the unfolding of cartoon as a political phenomenon, but created increasing difficulties for artists and reflected the stifling atmosphere of the last years of the decade.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Caricatures en Extrême-Orient: Origines, rencontres, métissages
ISBN
978-2-37701-151-3
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
247-263
Number of pages of the book
418
Publisher name
Hémisphères Éditions
Place of publication
Paris
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