The Myth of the ‘Land Grab'

正Researchers debunk the theory that the Chinese Government is tackling food security by buying African land By Corrie Dosh It’s the kind of headline that sells magazines:"China Buys Up the World."It appeared in a November 2010 issue of The Economist,illustrated by a faceless,militaristic figure loading cars,oil barrels,power lines and various manufactured goods into     

Republican China: Chaos,Process, and Revolution*

A pivotal figure in the birth of Chinese cinema, Zheng Zhengqiu (鄭正秋 1889–1935) established an art of dramatic film integral to the creation of early Chinese motion pictures. His style incorporated unique cross-media perspectives, producing theatrical works fundamentally grounded in his experiences in graphic arts (illustrated news) and theater. This article focuses on crucial links between Zheng's films and his work for various illustrated newspapers, as well as between his stage plays and his own experience of family life. The author offers new approaches to and interpretations of Zheng's art, analyzing his emotional modes of narrative and provocative forms of engagement. These artistic traits are rarely discussed in contemporary scholarship on his contributions to Chinese cinema. Emerging during the 1911 Revolution, Zheng's sensational style of drama aimed to foster broad social and cultural reforms. For Zheng, art was never for art's sake alone; instead, art was always in the service of society.     

China Fables in Ink-and-Wash

正THE eight stories that make up the Ink-and-Wash Picture Books of Classic Chinese Stories series are known and told in every Chinese household.Compiled and illustrated by eminent pre-school art educator Cui Yan,these classic tales,vividly and colorfully portrayed in traditional ink and wash style,are a perennial favorite among young readers.     

论晚明插图本的文本价值及其传播机制

晚明的插图本,不管梓行数量还是质量都远超前代,具有极高的文本价值和审美价值.加上晚明书商具有一套较为灵活的传播机制,采取诸如聘请名家加盟、更新版式、加大广告宣传力度等措施,极大地推动了插图本的传播速度.书商的这些举措也成为中国传播史上成功的传播范例.     

A Historic Deal

正Putin’s visit upgrades China-Russia energy and security cooperation Chinese and Russian leaders have proclaimed to the world that their relationship is at a high point.The two major neighboring powers have now illustrated this claim by expanding ties in the fields of energy and security.Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin jointly released a statement on May 20 during the     

Cross-dressing and sex change stories in Spanish illustrated magazines (1928–1936)

During the 1920s and 1930s, the impression that the boundaries between the sexes were increasingly blurring was pervasive in many parts of the world. In Spain, sexual ambiguity often became the focus of public discussions on the upheaval of the traditional gender order. As part of this phenomenon, stories of cross-dressers made good copy in popular illustrated magazines such as Nuevo Mundo, Mundo Gráfico, Estampa, and Crónica, which were the top-sellers of their kind during the interwar period. By analyzing a group of cross-dressing and sex change stories from these periodicals – the way they were told and interpreted – I shed light on the ways in which the perceived fluidity of gender was constructed in a medium that reached a relative large segment of the Spanish population. The journalistic pieces I consider manifested different reactions to sexual ambiguity that ranged from the condemnatory to the matter-of-fact. Regardless, they all contributed – implicitly or explicitly – to undermine essentialist arguments underpinning the ideology of separate spheres of action for men and women. On occasion, these texts put forth an intimation, avant la lettre, of Judith Butler’s notion of the performativity of gender.