

Some of the manhua that mirrored the early struggles of the transitional political and war periods were The True Record and Renjian Pictorial. Sun Yat-Sen established the Republic of China in 1911 using Hong Kong's manhua to circulate anti- Qing propaganda. The first piece drawn by a person of Chinese nationality was The Situation in the Far East from Tse Tsan-tai in 1899, printed in Japan. One of the first magazines of satirical cartoons came from the United Kingdom entitled The China Punch. They are considered the predecessor of modern-day manhua. By the 1920s palm-sized picture books like Lianhuanhua were popular in Shanghai. Beginning in the 1870s, satirical drawings appeared in newspapers and periodicals. The introduction of lithographic printing methods derived from the West was a critical step in expanding the art in the early 20th century. Chinese manhua was born in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, roughly during the years 1867 to 1927. Other examples include symbolic brush drawings from the Ming Dynasty, a satirical drawing titled "Peacocks" by the early Qing Dynasty artist Zhu Da, and a work called "Ghosts' Farce Pictures" from around 1771 by Luo Liang-feng. The oldest surviving examples of Chinese drawings are stone reliefs from the 11th century BC and pottery from 5000 to 3000 BC. Wang manhua reflects the artist's own life during the Japanese invasion of China.

History The Situation in the Far East, an 1899 manhua by Tse Tsan-tai "Abandon the Civilian Life, Join the Army": Ye Qianyu's 1939 Mr. Someone who draws or writes manhua is referred to as a manhuajia ( simplified Chinese: 漫画家 traditional Chinese: 漫畫家 pinyin: mànhuàjiā). The Chinese characters for manhua are identical to those used for the Japanese manga and Korean manhwa. While terms other than manhua had existed before, this particular publication took precedence over the many other descriptions for cartoon art that were used previously and manhua came to be associated with all Chinese comic materials.
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Feng Zikai reintroduced the word to Chinese, in the modern sense, with his 1925 series of political cartoons entitled Zikai Manhua in the Wenxue Zhoubao (Literature Weekly). It became popular in Japan as manga in the late 19th century. The word manhua was originally an 18th-century term used in Chinese literati painting. Compared to Korean Manhwa, Manhua are greatly influenced by Japanese manga. Whilst Chinese comics and narrated illustrations have existed in China in some shape or form throughout its imperial history, the term manhua first appeared in 1904 in a comic titled Current Affairs Comics ( 时事漫画 Shíshì Mànhuà) in the Shanghai-based newspaper Jingzhong Daily ( 警钟日报 Jǐngzhōng Rìbào). Manhua ( traditional Chinese: 漫畫 simplified Chinese: 漫画 pinyin: mànhuà) are Chinese-language comics produced in China and Taiwan.
