Illustration:
ill. 6.44 (set: 6.44)
Author:
Artist: Chu Jian, Jiao Ben, Da Lu 绘画：除俭， 脚本， 大鲁
Date:
1962, March
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/294.
Inscription:
威廉·退尔
Keywords:
foreign comics, Cultural Revolution, foreign heritage, popularity of comics, comic, hero

Comics on Foreign Topics - Wilhelm Tell (Guowai lianhuanhua: Weilian Tui'er 国外连环画： 威廉·退尔)

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 as can be seen from this example which tells the story of Swiss "national" hero Wilhelm Tell.