Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Paintings

Author: Lu Zhongmin
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The "Foreign Picture" series of albums collects nearly 10,000 exquisite "foreign pictures" from the multi-generational collection of Mr. Liu Yunfu, a folk collector. The content covers politics, economy, ethics, folklore, opera, literature, sports, entertainment, and landscape history. Scholars and experts in these fields will find it a rare reference material for those engaged in theater, film, art, and literary creation. At the same time, the traditional Chinese ethnic characteristics depicted and adopted in the foreign pictures will attract readers of all social strata today with their unique artistic charm. Middle-aged and elderly people who lived through that era can relive their childhood memories of collecting and trading "foreign pictures" in streets and alleys. Younger generations, on the other hand, can gain a glimpse into the social life of past decades through appreciation. Additionally, the comprehensive presentation of foreign pictures will be highly beneficial as a reference material for people to reassess this special phenomenon in the history of Chinese tobacco, study Chinese tobacco culture, explore the development of Chinese commercial art, and promote the growth of commercial art and advertising industries in contemporary China.