Tag: China
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01 Work, The Art of War, Migita Toshihide’s The Fall of Pyongyang, with footnotes
Amid the smoke of battle, Japanese troops encircle panicked Chinese soldiers in this panoramic view of the conquest of the Korean city of Pyongyang during the first Sino-Japanese War (1894–95). This propagandistic image, aimed at a domestic Japanese audience and saturated with racist overtones, draws a contrast between the Japanese participants’ modern, Western-style uniforms and…
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01 Marine Painting – Charles William Bush’s The Pearl River – Canton China, With Footnotes, #346
The Pearl River is an extensive river system in southern China. The river is so named because of the pearl-colored shells that lie at the bottom of the river in the section that flows through the city of Guangzhou. More on The Pearl River Born in Melbourne, Charles William Bush studied under Mcinnes (q. v.) and Wheeler at the National Gallery…