Published 2016
“…Meanwhile, as the producers of an art form which managed to successfully reconcile the inherent contradictions in CCP art policy, lianhuanhua artists developed a complex give and take relationship with
Party-State agencies. Comics were disseminated through highly regulated channels, including bookshops, libraries and factories to ensure ‘
revolutionary’ content reached a wider audience and
Party-State agencies also sought to advocate ‘appropriate’ reading through ‘reading tutorship’. …”
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