E ASIAN 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Four Olds, Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
26 Feb 2020
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Week 4. 2 lecture 8 (continuation of detwyler"s video presentation) Used to write out against and denounce people in public. A medium that didn"t die with the cultural revolution. Spectacles for punishing and criticizing people in public. Going down to the countryside movement (1968-1976) Schools closed, educated urban youth sent to rural areas in order to work with poor people. Indicative of broader belief and policy in reforming though through labor (end of detwyler"s video presentation) Pictorial storytelling goes back about 2000 years ago. Comics are really a product from the late 1900s. England introduced comics to china in the 1860s-1880s. All with some reference to punch the english comic. Literacy was a problem in china as not everyone was able to read. Mobilized comic book artist as people did not need word to read it. Xiao li"s graphic memoir is how he became a comic artist. Lent points out that comics became a tool for propaganda.
