Illustration:
ill. 6.45 (set: 6.44)
Author:
Artist: Wang Zhaodong 绘画: 王肇东
Date:
1985/1986
Genre:
comic, cover
Material:
scan, paper, colour; original source: print on paper, colour
Source:
Zhongguo lianhuanhua 2000, Vols. I & II: Zhongguo lianhuanhua 中国连环画 (Chinese comics), Harbin: Heilongjiang, 2000:I/231.
Inscription:
人猿泰山 2, 3, 4
Keywords:
foreign comics, Cultural Revolution, foreign heritage, popularity of comics, comic, hero

Comics on Foreign Topics -Tarzan (Guowai lianhuanhua: Renyuan Taishan 国外连环画：人猿泰山)

Next to its alleged anti-traditionalism, the Cultural Revolution is also habitually characterized by its xenophobic outlook. During this time, it is said, and rightly so, foreign heritage and knowledge were rejected. Yet again, our general perception does not bear out some of the evidence: in the publication catalogues, comics with foreign plots and themes appear in great numbers both in the 1950s and early 1960s. In the 1980s again, everything from the White House to Romeo and Juliet, Tarzan (as seen here), Spartacus, and Hitler (see ills. ill. 6.24 a, ill. 6.25 a and ill. 6.25 b came to play a role.)