This book explores the visual cultures that were developed by the Chinese “collaborationist” regime during the Japanese occupation of China.
Iconographies of Occupation addresses how the “collaborationist” Reorganised National Government (RNG) in Japanese-occupied China sought to visualize its leader, the Chinese people and China itself. What visual tropes were used in regime iconography? And what can the intertextual movement of such tropes tell us about RNG artists and intellectuals and their understanding of the occupation?
Drawing on rarely before used archival records relating to propaganda, as well as a range of visual media produced in occupied China, the book examines the means used by this “client regime” to carve out a separate visual space for itself.
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March 2021
University of Hawaii Press
The visual cultures produced by Chinese “collaborators” during the Japanese occupation have been largely ignored in earlier research. Nevertheless, they have the potential to tell us a great deal about the ways in which artists, intellectuals and officials responded to the unique circumstances of wartime occupation.
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