{"id":12862,"date":"2008-09-01T14:23:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T14:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/09\/chinese-political-illustration-then-now.html"},"modified":"2008-09-01T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T14:23:26","slug":"chinese_political_illustration_then_now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/01\/chinese_political_illustration_then_now\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese political illustration, then &#038; now"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>Ethan Persoff has gathered a collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ep.tc\/chinese-comics\/\">anti-US Chinese political cartoons c.1958-1960<\/a>.&#160; Without translations or other context, many are baffling, but I find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ep.tc\/chinese-comics\/05.html\">this one<\/a> especially creepy.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Drawing your own political messages in China is less welcome: James Powderly of the <a href=\"http:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/\">Graffiti Research Lab<\/a> (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;domains=blogs.adobe.com%2Fjnack&amp;sitesearch=blogs.adobe.com%2Fjnack&amp;q=graffiti+research+labs&amp;btnG=Search&amp;sitesearch=blogs.adobe.com%2Fjnack\">previous<\/a>) was detained for six days for attempting to display Tibet-related protest messages during the Olympics.&#160; He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/08\/08\/james-powderlys-story-of-his-beijing-detention\">tells the story<\/a> in a series of interviews. <\/li>\n<li>History repeating as farce: Now you can get a hand-painted version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maopost.com:8000\/wcat=mao&amp;wlan=en&amp;wreq=maoartpre\">your face in a Chinese propaganda poster<\/a>.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/photojojo.com\/content\/buy-this\/photo-propoganda-oil-painting\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Persoff has gathered a collection of anti-US Chinese political cartoons c.1958-1960.&#160; Without translations or other context, many are baffling, but I find this one especially creepy.&#160; [Via] Drawing your own political messages in China is less welcome: James Powderly of the Graffiti Research Lab (see previous) was detained for six days for attempting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}