Illustration:
ill. 6.12 a (set: 6.8)
Date:
1950
Genre:
comic, comic strip
Material:
paper, black-and-white
Source:
Li Fengjin 1950: Li Feng Jin—How the New Marriage Law Helped One Woman Stand Up, edited and translated by Susan Glosser from a 1950 Chinese original, Portland: Opal Mogus Books, 2003:30.
Keywords:
countryside, peasants, sunflower, sun, sunrays, Chinese Communist party, Mao Zedong, comic rhetoric
Li Fengjin (Li Fengjin 李风金)
![ill. 6.12 a](img/560w/img_241.jpg)
This type of depiction was powerful in comic rhetoric, and it could be seen before and even after the end of the Cultural Revolution, as in a number of 1950s comics (this being one example): Li Fengjin and Gu Shujin are working under the bright shining sun surrounded by sunflowers.