Taiwan Comics
This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the comics culture of Taiwan. Under martial law (1949–87), Taiwan’s comics culture was shaped by an intriguing mix: mainland Chinese traditions of political cartoons (manhua) and popular “picture books” (lianhuanhua) existed side by side with pira...
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2024
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| description | This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the comics culture of Taiwan. Under martial law (1949–87), Taiwan’s comics culture was shaped by an intriguing mix: mainland Chinese traditions of political cartoons (manhua) and popular “picture books” (lianhuanhua) existed side by side with pirated and often obscured Japanese manga. Triangulating the sociology of culture, media history, and comics studies, the book investigates the hybridity of Taiwan comics with regard to the intricate relationship between transcultural while situated forms and socio-cultural contents against the backdrop of changes in comics’ cultural, symbolic, and economic capital. The main focus is on entertaining graphic narratives, that is, a type of comics that was ascribed a low cultural status in postwar Taiwan. The first chapter lays out the concept of comics that the book applies—comics as media rather than “art.” It also highlights manga’s postwar visual grammar, which came to serve as a standard for entertaining graphic narratives in Taiwan. The following chapter surveys the genealogy of the media form from the period of Japanese colonial rule to the eve of the new censorship system in the 1960s. The third chapter scrutinizes the comics censorship system, which ultimately facilitated manga piracy and thereby interrupted the development of local comics production. Historical government documents and newspaper articles are analyzed to grasp the complicated exchange between artists, publishers, and the authorities. The fourth chapter looks into the different positions held by “mainlanders” and “islanders” with regard to publication venues (newspapers, magazines, and rental-store editions) and interpersonal networks. The last chapter shifts the focus to representational content with a special emphasis on graphic history and examines how the setting of comics narratives in an ahistorical “ancient China” related to contemporaneous official history. Thus, the book provides insights into Taiwan’s postwar history and controversial national identity through the lens of comics while introducing an extraordinarily heterogeneous media to researchers engaged in comics and manga studies. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1477672024-11-12T04:07:09Z Taiwan Comics LEE, I-YUN graphic narrative; Taiwan; comics censorship; graphic history; manga thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AK Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration::AKL Illustration and commercial art::AKLC Comic book and cartoon artwork thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China::1FPCW Taiwan This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the comics culture of Taiwan. Under martial law (1949–87), Taiwan’s comics culture was shaped by an intriguing mix: mainland Chinese traditions of political cartoons (manhua) and popular “picture books” (lianhuanhua) existed side by side with pirated and often obscured Japanese manga. Triangulating the sociology of culture, media history, and comics studies, the book investigates the hybridity of Taiwan comics with regard to the intricate relationship between transcultural while situated forms and socio-cultural contents against the backdrop of changes in comics’ cultural, symbolic, and economic capital. The main focus is on entertaining graphic narratives, that is, a type of comics that was ascribed a low cultural status in postwar Taiwan. The first chapter lays out the concept of comics that the book applies—comics as media rather than “art.” It also highlights manga’s postwar visual grammar, which came to serve as a standard for entertaining graphic narratives in Taiwan. The following chapter surveys the genealogy of the media form from the period of Japanese colonial rule to the eve of the new censorship system in the 1960s. The third chapter scrutinizes the comics censorship system, which ultimately facilitated manga piracy and thereby interrupted the development of local comics production. Historical government documents and newspaper articles are analyzed to grasp the complicated exchange between artists, publishers, and the authorities. The fourth chapter looks into the different positions held by “mainlanders” and “islanders” with regard to publication venues (newspapers, magazines, and rental-store editions) and interpersonal networks. The last chapter shifts the focus to representational content with a special emphasis on graphic history and examines how the setting of comics narratives in an ahistorical “ancient China” related to contemporaneous official history. Thus, the book provides insights into Taiwan’s postwar history and controversial national identity through the lens of comics while introducing an extraordinarily heterogeneous media to researchers engaged in comics and manga studies. 2024-11-12T04:07:07Z 2024-11-12T04:07:07Z 2024-11-11T09:08:59Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94538 9789176352519 9789176352533 9789176352540 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/147767 eng Stockholm Studies in Media Arts Japan open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94538/1/taiwan-comics.pdf Stockholm University Press 10.16993/bcp 10.16993/bcp c5cec141-b2bf-4c40-aef0-7bda5c4363d0 9789176352519 9789176352533 9789176352540 337 Stockholm open access |
| spellingShingle | graphic narrative; Taiwan; comics censorship; graphic history; manga thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AK Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration::AKL Illustration and commercial art::AKLC Comic book and cartoon artwork thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China::1FPCW Taiwan LEE, I-YUN Taiwan Comics |
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| topic | graphic narrative; Taiwan; comics censorship; graphic history; manga thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AK Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration::AKL Illustration and commercial art::AKLC Comic book and cartoon artwork thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China::1FPCW Taiwan |
| topic_facet | graphic narrative; Taiwan; comics censorship; graphic history; manga thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AK Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration::AKL Illustration and commercial art::AKLC Comic book and cartoon artwork thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China::1FPCW Taiwan |
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