Illustration:
ill. 6.35 b (set: 6.34)
Author:
Zhao Hongben (1915-2000) 赵宏本
Date:
1972
Genre:
comic, comic book, comic strip
Material:
scan, paper, black-and-white; original source: woodblock print
Source:
SWKSDBGJ 1972: Sun Wukong san da baigujing孙悟空三打白骨精 (Sun Wukong thrice defeats the white-boned demon). Shanghai: Shanghai renmin, 1973:43.
Keywords:
Journey to the West, Sun Wukong, Mao Zedong, iconography, Cultural Revolution, Three Prominences, hero, heroism, comic

Zhao Hongben: Sun Wukong thrice defeats the white-boned Demon 1972 (Zhao Hongben: Sun Wukong san da baigujing 赵宏本: 孙悟空三打白骨精)

Some of the panels from the 1962 version in which he is told off or punished by Tang Seng are simply omitted or substituted to make him look better; he is never punished in the new version and he is never humiliated such that he has to stand on a lower level than everyone else. An image from the earlier version in which the monk is seen with his entourage looking down at Monkey King from a cliff and casting a punishing spell on him as he bends down awkwardly in pain (see ill. 6.35a) is substituted with this image in which Monk Sha is now seen advising Tang Seng not to punish Sun. In this substitute image, Sun appears, significantly, in the center top, with his companions pushed to the side.