modern cartoon
- Museum number
- 2009,3022.74.a
- Title
- Object: The cartoon circle climbs the mountains for Double-Ninth (漫畫界重陽登高圖 Manhuajie Chongyang dengao tu)
- Description
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Double-page coloured cartoon from 1936 Shanghai Manhua (上海漫畫). Group portrait of 1930s cartoonists. They are (left to right):
Bottom row: Wang Dunqing王敦慶 (1899-1990), Liang Baibo 梁柏波 (?1911-70),Ye Qianyu 葉淺予 (1907-95), Huang Miaozi 黃苗子 (1913-2102)
Middle row: Wang Zimei 汪子美,Lu Fu 魯夫, Zhu Jinlou 朱金樓, Te Wei 特偉 (1915-2010), Huang Yao黃堯 (1917-87), Zhang Guangyu 張光宇(1902-65), Zhang Zhengyu 張正宇 (1903-76), Hu Kao 胡考 (1912-94), Lu Shaofei 魯少飛 (1903-95), Gao Longsheng 高龍生, Zhang Leping 張樂平 (1910-92)
Top row: Zhang Yingchao 張英超 ,Lu Zhixiang 魯志庠,Ding Cong 丁聰 (1916-2009), Cai Ruohong 蔡若虹 (1910-?)
- Production date
- 1936
- Dimensions
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Height: 37.50 centimetres
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Width: 26 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- These works illustrate the social, political and economic conditions of 1930s China. As China and Japan moved closer to war, millions lost their livelihood or migrated; families were separated; daily life disintegrated.
Shanghai represented a very different society, of worldly glamour, sophistication and luxury.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2013 May-Sep, London, BM, The Art of Influence: Asian Propaganda
- Acquisition date
- 2009
- Acquisition notes
- Jack Chen (Chen Yifan 陈依范, 1908-97) , journalist and cartoonist, collected this material in late 1930s China. He exhibited it in New York, London and other wartime capitals, to support the anti-Fascist movement and raise support for China's wartime situation. It remained in Amsterdam after being exhibited in 1939. In 1955, another exhibition was held in Amsterdam, and the collection was given to the curator of that event. The British Museum acquired it in Amsterdam in 2009, through the offices of Stefan Landsberger and Marien van der Heijden.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2009,3022.74.a