scholarly journals “New Possibility of Research on East Asian Music through Establishment of Music Database of Primary Sources”

2014 ◽  
Vol null (31) ◽  
pp. 149-169
Author(s):  
Eunha Kim ◽  
이경자
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Asian Music ◽  
Music Database

scholarly journals The Discourse of Guohua in Wartime Shanghai

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-296
Author(s):  
Pedith Pui Chan
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
New Order ◽  
Art World ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Elite Culture ◽  
Production And Consumption

Abstract This article looks at artists’ engagement with artistic activities carried out in wartime Shanghai, with a particular focus on guohua (lit., ‘national painting’). Drawing on primary sources such as archival materials, diaries, paintings, magazines and newspapers, it explores the layered meanings attached to and social functions of guohua and the institutional structure of the Shanghai art world from the gudao (solitary island) period to the advent of full occupation from December 1941 onwards. As a symbol of Chinese elite culture, guohua continued to dominate the Shanghai art world with support from Wang Jingwei’s regime and the occupying Japanese, and was deemed the root of East Asian art and one of the crucial pillars of the East Asian renaissance in the discourse of the new order of East Asian art. Through closely examining the discourse of guohua in occupied Shanghai, this article advances our understanding of the production and consumption of art in wartime Shanghai by going beyond the paradigmatic binary of ‘collaboration’ and ‘resistance’.

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