Cover the New China Pictorial for September 1944.

Description

Cover of the New China Pictorial for September 1944.

Xin Zhonghua huabao (New China Pictorial) cover, September 1944

This cover image from the Xin Zhonghua huabao (New China Pictorial) 6.9 (September 1944) shows Chen Juanjuan. Chen was a film celebrity active in wartime Shanghai. 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

September 1944

Artist/Creator

New China Pictorial

Medium

Book / Published Material

Theme

Entertainment in occupied China

Case Studies

Japanese-occupied China
(1937 – 1945)

Keywords

Chen Juanjuan, cinema, flowers, modern girl

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

Library of Congress

Source Reference Details

Asian Reading Room

Permissions/Acknowledgements

Library of Congress

COTCA Identifier

LOCNCP-0010

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