Iconographies of Occupation: Visual Cultures in Wang Jingwei's China, 1939-1945

New book by COTCA director Dr Jeremy E. Taylor is now available to pre-order. 

Iconographies of Occupation: Visual Cultures in Wang Jingwei's China, 1939-1945 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2021) 

This is first book to address how the “collaborationist” Reorganised National Government (RNG) in Japanese-occupied China sought to visualize its leader, Wang Jingwei (1883–1944), the Chinese people, and China itself. It explores the ways in which this administration sought to present itself to the people over which it ruled at different points between 1939 (when the RNG was first being formulated) and August 1945, when it folded itself out of existence. What sorts of visual tropes were used in regime iconography and how were these used? What can the intertextual movement of visual tropes and motifs tell us about RNG artists and intellectuals and their understanding of the occupation and the war?

Pre-order Iconographies of Occupation: Visual Cultures in Wang Jingwei's China, 1939-1945 here.