Cover of the New China Pictorial for December 1942.

Description

Cover of the New China Pictorial for December 1942.

Xin Zhonghua huabao (New China Pictorial) cover, December 1942

This cover from the Xin Zhonghua huabao (New China Pictorial) 4.12 (December 1942) features an image of Li Lihua. Li was one of the most popular film celebrities in wartime Shanghai, and was favoured by the occupation regime in pro-government media. The New China Pictorial was a bilingual (Chinese-English) magazine published from 1939 through 1944 in Shanghai by the occupation journalist Wu Linzhi for distribution in China and throughout Southeast Asia.

Date

December 1942

Artist/Creator

New China Pictorial

Medium

Book / Published Material

Theme

Entertainment in occupied China

Case Studies

Japanese-occupied China
(1937 – 1945)

Keywords

cheongsam, cinema, Li Lihua, modern girl

Further information

Further Reading

Jing Jing Chang, “China Doll in flight: Li Lihua, World Today, and the Free China-US relationship”, Film History 26.3 (2014): 1-28.

Source

Library of Congress

Source Reference Details

Asian Reading Room

Permissions/Acknowledgements

Library of Congress

COTCA Identifier

LOCNCP-0003

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