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"An original and innovative re-conceptualization of manhua in relation to the pictorial magazine, or huabao. Crespi's meticulous study shows the many benefits of interpreting Chinese comics, cartoons, and other illustrations not simply as image genres, but rather as part of a larger print culture institution. Manhua Modernity is a must-read for anyone interested in modern Chinese visual culture."—Christopher Rea, author of The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China
"A rich media-centered reading of Chinese comics from the mid-1920s through the 1950s, Manhua Modernity shifts the emphasis away from ideological interpretation and demonstrates that the pictorial turn requires examinations of manhua in its heterogenous, expansive, spontaneous, and interactive ways of engaging its audience’s varied experiences of fast-changing everyday life."—Yingjin Zhang, author of Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China