英文摘要 |
In this paper, I regard the series of images of 'Sino-French War' (中法戰爭), the Battle of Keelung and 'Korean Kapshin Incident' (甲申政變) in the Dianshizhai Pictorial (點石齋畫報) from May 1884 to January 1885 as the main theme in an attempt to discuss wars and politics in the process of figure reproduction, and how the artist imagined unknown exotic lands and otherness, and how the images achieved narrative functionality by painting techniques such as compositions, lines, backgrounds, and how words showed side by side with pictures could resonate with the intention of drawing. This article addresses sequentially: tidying up history, painters and painting styles, paintings turning from the 'artwork' into newspapers and merchandise with strong novelty and topicality. Also, in the series of war images of Sino-French War and the Battle of Keelung, I find 'the masses', namely the disciplined, shown, militarized 'bodies'. At last section, through the special issue of Kapshin Incident -'Brief History of Korean Chaos', I find that discerning from the cross-form representation of the images, histories and fictions, the Qing government’s anxiety for 'Celestial Empire' disintegration and its imagination about the tension among China, Japan and Korea was apparent. By studying the series of images regarding Sino-French War, the Battle of Keelung and Kapshin Incident in Dianshizhai Pictorial, it is found that Dianshizhai Pictorial not only tended to attract its readers by the presentation of 'bodies' and 'images', but also tried to influence readers’ perception and emotional structure by its methods of presenting 'bodies' and 'images'. |