China: A disturbing image from 'Shanghai Manhua' entitled 'Human Meat Market' depicts a female brothel keeper butchering young women and selling their body parts to passing men. A social comment on the prevalence of prostitution in Old Shanghai. By Lu Shaofei, January 19, 1929 The pictorial 'Shanghai Manhua' (Shanghai Sketch), published between April 21, 1928 and June 7, 1930, was a mixture of drawings, photographs and images ranging from advertisements to social criticism and political caricatures. Shanghai Manhua was an outlet for professional cartoonists and sketch masters.
A female brothel keeper butchers young women and sells the body parts to passing men. Social comment on the prevalence of prostitution in Old Shanghai. The pictorial 'Shanghai Manhua' (Shanghai Sketch), published between April 21, 1928 and June 7, 1930, was a mixture of drawings, photographs and images ranging from advertisements to social criticism and political caricatures. Shanghai Manhua was an outlet for professional cartoonists and sketch masters, generally of an avant garde or progressive nature. Many of the images printed in 'Shanghai Manhua' are observations of urban life in contemporaneous Shanghai, as well as often critical comment on the social mores of the time.
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