Emphasizing what pictures want also sensitizes the methods of “horizontal reading” (14) and treating manhua as “metapictures” (59) in order to heuristically establish links between the interactive mix of discrete manhua on the magazine page to the socio-political background. Mitchell’s call for what pictures want rather than what they do to analyze the evolving agency of manhua magazines to understand the power relationship between pictures, institutions, and readers.
Within the corpus of manhua magazines and the manhua production practices among key artists of the time, Crespi has excellently demonstrated how those works shape modern living and readers’ worldviews, though they are also strongly steered by the shifting social and political milieu in China over the concerned periods. In the epilogue, Crespi admits that his approach to manhua as periodicals has neglected other manhua publication formats and forms. However, this expanded view has its own limitations. Such a conceptual expansion allows a more holistic view of manhua in reflecting as well as constructing modernity and a sense of community through the act of mass viewing. This view highlights manhua’s “heterogeneity and seriality” (65) in periodicals whereby individual works form “an interactive matrix of images and text” (27) showcasing the modern everyday. Conceptually, Crespi is reserved from taking manhua as the synonym of the English words “cartoons” and “comics.” Instead, he approaches manhua within the trinity of manhua, magazine, and modernity.
John Crespi’s Manhua Modernity: Chinese Culture and the Pictorial Turn contributes to the expanding scholarship on Chinese manhua and print visual culture in the first half of twentieth-century China.
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