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Ye Qianyu
“Negotiating for Compensation”

December 1934 [ms12_000_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Lu Zhixiang
Businessman A: The goods are all in stock. Just take your pick.
Businessman B: I do believe I’ll have to try each one out first.

December 1934 [ms12_020_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Dou Zonggan
“As if Confronting a Mortal Foe”

January 1936 [ms25_010_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		The Modern Cartoon Society
“The Typical Chinese Person”

January 1936 [ms25_020_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Lu Shaofei
“Opening Up a New Era”

July 1936 [ms28_000_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Zhang Ding
“Spring Plowing”

January 1937 [ms34_011_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Chen Juanyin
“The Old Opera Musician”
(Singing): Father’s and sons...

January 1937 [ms34_044_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Dou Zonggan
“Don’t arrest my driver, just take my card!”

March 1937 [ms36_000_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Dai Lian
“The Grand Office of Government is Open”

March 1937 [ms36_025_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Zhang Ding
“Victims of Famine Lie Dead in the Wilderness
(The Scenery of Central Sichuan)”

April 1937 [ms37_000_ModernSketch]
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Nine Thematic Visual Narratives

4. Exploitation & Oppression

Many cartoonists felt compelled to expose the suffering and injustice that the strong inflicted on the weak in a society riven by uneven distribution of wealth and power. The issues they represented—construction site accidents, corrupt officials, degradation of women, and the hard lot of the poor in the city and the country—were as alive in the minds of Chinese then as now: all part of the never-ending feast of big fish on little fish that haunts the dark underside of modernity.
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