Illustration:
ill. 6.43 b (set: 6.43)
Author:
Sche Zeh Tschi
Date:
1940s
Genre:
woodblock print
Material:
scan, paper, black-and-white; original source: woodblock print
Source:
Seifert 2008: Seifert, Andreas. Bildproduktion: Bildgeschichten für Chinas Massen: Comic und Comicproduktion im 20. Jahrhundert, Cologne: Böhlau, 2008:101.
Courtesy:
Andreas Seifert
Keywords:
children, lending library, comic, popularity of comics, small bookstall

Street library for children

In this 1940s depiction, a group of women, men, and children sit on a bench in front of the stall’s shelves or browse the shelves, most of them with their backs toward the viewer and immersed in their reading activity. All of them are guarded by an old man with large hat and beard, seated on a large chest.