{"id":2848,"date":"2014-09-01T18:29:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2014-09-01T18:29:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:29:05","slug":"wu-youru-the-first-chinese-cartoonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wu-youru-the-first-chinese-cartoonist","title":{"rendered":"WU YOURU: THE \u201cFIRST\u201d CHINESE CARTOONIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">Posted on August 28, 2014 by necksbetrim<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Firsts are always controversial. If the first Chinese cartoonist was the student of another, earlier cartoonist or proto-cartoonist, <!--more-->either by instruction or by inspiration, then he wasn\u2019t really the first Chinese cartoonist, was he?<\/p>\n<p>In a way, it all depends on how broadly or narrowly you choose to define the word \u201ccartoon,\u201d or k\u01cet\u014dng \u5361\u901a or \u201ccomics\u201d m\u00e0nhu\u00e0 \u6f2b\u756b in Chinese. Strictly speaking, the first time the word \u201cmanhua\u201d was used to describe a cartoon-like drawing by a Chinese artist occurred when Zheng Zhenduo \u912d\u632f\u9438 published drawings by Feng Zikai \u8c50\u5b50\u6137 under that name in the periodical Literature Weekly \u6587\u5b78\u5468\u520a in 1925. Most scholars agree however that Feng\u2019s work represents a synthesis of earlier works. Geremie R. Barm\u00e9, for example, has found particularly strong stylistic and thematic resemblances to the popular Japanese artist Takehisa Yumeji \u7af9\u4e45\u5922\u4e8c (1884-1934) whose work Feng was exposed to while studying abroad for 10 months in 1921.1<\/p>\n<p>Chinese scholars Bi Keguan \u7562\u514b\u5b98 and Huang Yuanlin \u9ec3\u9060\u6797, meanwhile, have \u201c[traced] a genealogy back to such pre-modern proto-cartoons as stone etchings (shike \u77f3\u523b) from the Eastern Han dynasty (25\u2013220 CE) and humorous brush paintings from the Ming dynasty (1368\u20131644).\u201d2 These stone etchings were likely based on earlier works in more ephemeral media, like wood or paper, which themselves would have found inspiration in the oral tradition.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickstember.com\/wu-youru-first-chinese-cartoonist\/\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on August 28, 2014 by necksbetrim &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wu-youru-the-first-chinese-cartoonist\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[834,833],"views":1938,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2849,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}