CHINESE COMMUNIST CARTOONS AND MORAL PICTORIAL NARRATIVES

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 21, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
DATE DISTR.
21 ve,3t. 1950
FITRY China
JECI Chinese Communist cartoons and I.ioral Pictorial NO. OF PAGES 2
Narratives ,?
25X1A NO. OF ENCLS.
an
material is directed mainly a
Subjects can be roughly divided into the categories of general Communist
ideology and. current specific political problems.
RETAIN OR DESTROY 5XIX SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
'.ihe Communists in China have adopted the mass production of cartoons and
pictorial narratives as one of their leading forms of propaganda. This
ds children and the semiliterate,
t
me , chiefly
propaganda of this type is issued either by professional artists
2. ~
members of national or local art workers' uni-cps, or by ap:?rcmtice antis s,
who may work either as individuals or as members of fine arts classes in
factories and other institutions or organizations. It is published by
commercial publishing firms. In Shanghai, for example, over a dozen publish-
ing centers are concentrati on the production of picture magazines, each
one issuing a series of from twenty to fifty books.
3. Under Communist direction, the influence of such pamphlets on the public is
school children. In Kowloon and
onda
d
ry
sec
great, especially on primary an
Hong Kong, the Communist bookshops which sell comic books and other pictorials
are full of children, after school hours and on holidays, standing around
reading the booklets published in Shanghai and Peiping.
1?xamples of such publications from Shanghai include the folloovings
a. Jo Throu i Conversion (Fan Shen Lo'ij issued by the Education
l album of Communist "folk
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t
a
or
Ul g Ciety anghai, is a pic
converted to Commu-
i
t b
ng
e
s)ngs" which depict the joy of the people a
nism and emphasize Communist slogans.
bm And All `?ere pleased (Ta Chia Hsi IIuan)',t "b,),issued by the People's
oo and ournal 331ying Society, Shanghai, is a pictorial representation
of a story by M Chiexr-ling (Jfir 4 Qj),, a well.=-known Co monist writer.
The story, in brief. is as folloVTs: LI Yu-chop, wife of the peasant opium
smoker ?P.I;G Can-pao, joined the village women's federation, participated
in productive work, and received --)ay which enabled her to feed ,IA11G,
herself, and t_ 1eir son ':TAI,-G Yang-via. Since JAIIG continued to ill-treat
her, she had her case presented through the women's federation to the
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local government. J ,'1,G was tcmiporarily separatod from his family by
the local authorities and was reformed by the village leader; then the
family was happily reunited.
c,? Y-NEG Ilsiao-lines :.Tarriane (YI G IIsiao-lin Chieh ihIun
pub ishod by e 13evr Voice -ublish_ng Society, Shanghai, is a story emipha
sizing freedom of marriage and op:)osition to feudalism. YATIG Ilsiao-lin
fell in love with the village guard YUA,is Ilsiao-t'u and with the assistance
of the regional government succeeded in marrying him in spite of her -)re--
vious betrothal by her father to another man. Afterwards, she worked hard
at production and was elected model laborer and chairman of the village
women's federation, while her husband worked for the people as a govern-
ment enployee.
d. Cooperation Between People and A . (Chun fin Igo Tso t ! /. )
published by the lighthouse 2ublishing Society, Shanghai, is a story based
on a tale by CHOU Erh fu (I~ ) ~J calling for cooperation between army
and people. The story tells how during; the Japanese occu,ation CIIAO Shou-i
hid a wounded soldier of the Eighth Route Army in his house, cured him, and
sent him out of the city through the Japanese and ptppet guards.
e. * I."?AO in the U002. (l".ao Chu Iisi Tsai Su Lien -:U J 1 M ) s
-~
Chairmen
nublishe0 y the L4orning Light Publishing Cony any, Shanghai, is a collection
of photographs taken during MAO Tse--tung.I s visit to the USar. It advertises
the success of MO's visit.
f. A Selection of Libor:tion Cartoons (Chieh Fang ?'an IIua Lsuan I
r ~I .I s a cr~o~sf
Y
pan ,iii
no Arts ~'ul)lish1ng .~ocie uy, ,
lisle y le Pubic i
co~ilation mare by the Slew '.hai branch of the .1,11-China Fine Arts Union
9 T q "h Tlnieh ui ' !.0 Jt- ""i'i t> !t?) . The cartoons, all by
u
K
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uo
(Ch uan
-~rof'esaional Com:'unists cn(. leftist artists, or the Host -_)art members of
either the Shanghai branch or the national fine arts union, q-)-)cared
originally in net~rspapers and 7eriodicals published in Shanghai. The specific
tooics covered range from silver dollar speculation, the strug,?lc against
the 1 ationalists, and, movements to supiort the front to the signing of the
3ino-Soviet _,)act, and cover, in- general all subjects which the Conrunist
Covernnent has designated for rues education use,
g. A Selection of Drawings b Shan hai ';Jorlcers (Shanghai Fung 'Jon 1 ua IIsuan
F , ; ? , published by the Labor Publishing; Society of Shanghai,
is a collecon of art work produced by individual workers and by members
of vrorl.rs' fine arts classes such as those of the Customs Union, the
Cur.ency Union, the Movie Union, the Jen Min Yin Chih I Chang (A. 4J
9 `; fj .a and the 19th Central Cotton ":Till. Topics covered in the so-
lections are labor affairs, general movements, and the other subjects -desig-
matted-by. the .government for use in Hass education.
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Coxent. Available in the CIA Library is one copy each in Chinese
of the panphlets described in this report.
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