Illustration of picking jadeite

Author: Jiang Deming
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Publish Date: 2000-06-01
Features: Exquisite illustrations can always be the soul of a book. This book, arranged chronologically, collects over 100 works from the May Fourth Movement onwards until the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the most works from the 1930s. Let's take a look at these illustrations that continue to dazzle us decades later. The book chronologically collects over 100 works from the May Fourth Movement onwards until the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the most illustrations from the 1930s. On one hand, this reflects the actual state of literary creation at the time; on the other hand, it reflects the liberation of artists' thoughts and their artistic maturity under the influence of the May Fourth New Tide. They dared to absorb foreign artistic styles and blend and transform them for their own creations. I also noticed that this book includes the urban novels of Liu Naoou, Mu Shiyin, Du Heng, and He Jin, i.e., the modernist or nouveau feeling school, as well as psychological analysis novels. The illustrations by Liang Baibo, Zhang Guangyu, and Lu Zhixiang also employ modernist techniques of symbolism and abstraction, aligning with the artistic style of the original works.