Cartoons and Collaboration in Wartime China

The Mobilization of Chinese Cartoonists under Japanese Occupation

Bibliographic Data

ID6008173
AuthorsJeremy Taylor (0000-0002-0448-0254, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, corresponding author), Jeremy E Taylor
Year2015
Volume41
Issue4
Pages406-435
Publication date2015-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueModern China (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0097700414538386
OpenAlexW2170956280
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited15

The work of Chinese cartoonists who published their illustrations in the popular press in occupied China from 1937 to 1945 has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both the occupation itself and the broader field of cartoon history. This article seeks to fill this gap in the literature by analyzing how the very nature of the occupation, together with efforts undertaken by collaborationist governments such as that of Wang Jingwei, created a context in which a particular body of artists could continue to draw. In so doing, the article raises questions about the place of “collaborationist” cartoonists in the broader development of art and propaganda in China and about the very nature of collaboration in the Chinese context

Archaeology · China · Context (archaeology · Field (mathematics · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics · Chinese history and philosophy · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Engineering · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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