Description
Cover of the New China Pictorial for July 1942.
Xin Zhonghua huabao (New China Pictorial) cover, July 1942
This cover image from the Xin Zhonghua huabao (New China Pictorial) 4.7 (July 1942) shows Nancy Chan (Chen Yunshang). Chan was one of the most popular film celebrities in wartime Shanghai, and was favoured by the occupation regime in pro-government media, despite emulating Hollywood stars in terms of her dress and public image. The New China Pictorial was a bilingual (Chinese-English) published from 1939 through 1944 in Shanghai by the occupation journalist Wu Linzhi for distribution in China and throughout Southeast Asia.
Date
- July 1942
Artist/Creator
New China Pictorial
Medium
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Book / Published Material
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Theme
- Entertainment in occupied China
Case Studies
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Japanese-occupied China
(1937 – 1945) Keywords
- cinema, Hollywood, modern girl, Nancy Chan (Chen Yunshang)
Further information
Further Reading
Poshek Fu, “The ambiguity of entertainment: Chinese cinema in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, 1941 to 1945,” Cinema Journal 37.1 (Autumn 1997): 66-84.
Source
Source Reference Details
Asian Reading Room
Permissions/Acknowledgements
Library of Congress
COTCA Identifier
LOCNCP-0001