Illustration:
ill. 6.43 d (set: 6.43)
Date:
1980s
Genre:
photograph
Material:
internet file, grayscale; original source: photograph
Source:
Dachs 2009 Chinese Comics Blog; Sina.com.cn, Heidelberg catalogue entry
Inscription:
醉生收藏连环画博客
Keywords:
children, lending library, comic, small bookstal, popularity of comics, reading

Intoxicating Collections (Zui sheng shoucan 醉生收藏)

While libraries and private homes may have been ransacked in the early years of the Cultural Revolution, and their comic collections taken away, street stalls for comic books remained intact and in use throughout the Cultural Revolution (Seifert 2008, 112). A recently published, undated photograph shows yet another similar scene, most probably from the 1980s, the heyday of comic production, according to Seifert (2008, 124). Again, the image shows boys and girls sitting on small benches, now with their backs to the audience again, but reading just as intently as in the other images.