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This article explores the importance of portrait photography to the wartime collaborationist regime of Wang Jingwei, which governed parts of Japanese-occupied China from 1940 to 1945. The article demonstrates how, for a combination of practical, political, and cultural reasons, studio portraiture was chosen as one of the primary forms of media for...
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... of the most widely circulated images of Wang in the occupation press in spring 1940, for example, was not a studio portrait at all. It was, rather, a news photograph of Wang in his trench coat and fedora, flanked by his Peace Movement followers, visiting a rain-soaked Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in mid-March 1940, produced by an Asahi photojournalist ( figure 10). 79 Wang may well be the central figure in this image, but he is framed and overshadowed by the imposing architectural symbol of the mausoleum, suggesting a symbolic but very much hierarchical link between Wang and the late Sun Yat-sen. ...
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This paper provides a ‘state of the field’ view of what the authors refer to as the ‘new cultural history’ of Japanese-occupied China. It explores how this small but growing field is beginning to provide new perspectives on questions of ‘collaboration’ and ‘resistance’ that have dominated many recent studies of wartime China. In addition, the authors argue that more research needs to focus on elite forms of Chinese cultural expression under occupation (a topic which has hitherto eluded serious academic scrutiny). This introduction also introduces the four key papers which make up this special issue.
