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)
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.