Description
Cover of the New China Pictorial for November 1943.
Xin Zhonghua huabao (New China Pictorial) cover, November 1943
This cover image from the Xin Zhonghua huabao (New China Pictorial) 5.11 (November 1943) shows an unattributed painting of the Beijing opera actress Huang Yuhua. Huang starred in Pansi dong (The Cave of the silken web), an opera film produced by the North China Film Company (Huabei Dianying Gongsi) in 1943. The image used here is from promotional material relating to that film. 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
- November 1943
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, fan, Huang Yuhua, opera (xiqu)
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-0005