Wangwright, Amanda, The Golden Key: Modern Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949), Leiden, Brill, 2021
→Caschera, Martina, “Women in Cartoons – Liang Baibo and the Visual Representations of Women in Modern Sketch”, International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 19, no. 2 Fall/Winter 2017
→Libao [Standing Paper], Shanghai, 1935
First Storm Society Exhibition, China Society for the Study of the Arts [Zhonghua Xueyishe], Shanghai, October, 1932
→Storm Society’s Final Exhibition, China Society for the Study of the Arts [Zhonghua Xueyishe], Shanghai, October 1935
Chinese cartoonist and painter.
Liang Baibo is recognised as one of the first female cartoonists in Republican China. Liang was born in Shanghai where she studied oil painting at the Shanghai Xinhua Art Academy and the National West Lake Art Academy (now the China Academy of Art). In Shanghai, Liang met renowned Chinese cartoonist Ye Qianyu (1907-1995) with whom she had an affair. Ye was a pioneering manhua [comic] artist and co-founder of the magazine Shanghai manhua [Shanghai Sketch] where Liang would eventually publish some of her works. Under her alias “Zong Bai”, Liang released her most celebrated cartoon Mìfēng xiǎojiě [Miss Bee, 1935] with Ye. Miss Bee reflects the growing women’s rights consciousness during the women’s liberation movement in Shanghai. The character personifies the “Modern-Girl” and “New Woman” that were seen as representations of new womanhood at the time. Liang’s activism extended far beyond the confines of the groups in which she was a member, including the Storm Society [Juelanshe], Société des Deux Mondes [Taimeng Huahui] and the Communist Youth League, where she created covers for numerous magazines, illustrations in poetry collections and children’s books.
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