Face

Author: Zhang Linlin
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: The series takes Chinese figures, social classes, historical sites, cultural relics, folk customs, and everyday life as its themes, vividly recreating the profound historical and cultural heritage and traditional cultural elements of China through highly visual graphic forms. Whether in content or expression, it strives to break the boundaries between sophistication and popular culture. While incorporating high-level academic research, it also maintains a sense of reading enjoyment, offering a comprehensive interpretation of Chinese culture. It can be regarded as a classic graphic reader that appeals to both the refined and the popular. Masks and "face" are indeed very closely related, which easily brings to mind a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "God gave you a face, and you made another for yourself." People have "face," and culture also has "face." In lively folk customs, various forms of "face" are preserved, while in religious art and other high-level cultures, the spiritual essence of "face" permeates. From the nation to the individual, from the court to the common people, from the mortal world to the heavens, one can see the manifestations of "face" created by high-level culture everywhere.