http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/gallery/0004sp2w.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/gallery/0004sp2w Selection of images featuring anthropomorphosized animals, creatures made strange through visual association and juxtapositions, or otherwise rendered as family, spectacle, or collectible. From The Young Companion (良友), 1926-1937. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001yrbbz.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001yrbbz.xml 47a5a5b7f2e41e86753ecf67b165c9fa image/jpeg 2304 3072 4580225 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001yrbbz Midget and monkey from a Shanxi midget show. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001yz5xb.xml 7755d42c8b2638e72e516f16defc6515 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4202404 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001yz5xb "Love me, love my dog!" -- Chinese screen stars and their pet dogs. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z00pp.xml 0f31c9b8af78175638c2b0ab230bb249 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4266846 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z00pp motherly love in the animal kingdom http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z1f6c.xml 1c8abc1acea9b17759892eb307a12422 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4592514 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z1f6c http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z2fe2.xml 9cbb648671776de15fcbc4dd11f73b9e image/jpeg 2304 3072 3961112 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z2fe2 Bear's play (遊藝) translates directly into someone else's livelihood (謀生). Also interesting is that there is no mention of the boy in this theatrical coupling, though one can assume that he leads a similarly harsh life -- psychologically caged, if not literally so. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z3w0b.xml 5e0b64c1f13c784496880ffd29e74a3d image/jpeg 2304 3072 4466564 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z3w0b FREE-FOR-ALL RACE -- THE FASTEST AIR PLANE AND THE SLOWEST SNAIL. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z45ap.xml 02962d8ae74af57b079a10b603fcef86 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4367469 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z45ap Interesting how animals (and humans who do animal-like work, such as a rickshaw puller) are mechanized by association and statistical figuration, clocked in terms of speed. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z5a2s.xml 9babaabe8f76a5ac41094e0e91ea8f66 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4334107 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z5a2s A lion photographed in the wild. The emphasis is on the famous hunter who took the photograph. What does the reference to the hunter indicate? The same photo spread also had a picture of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson themselves, shooting movies of African wildlife, as well as a picture of a champion egg-laying hen. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z689f.xml 528c877f00acd5dfea6a7fbd2e5aeb1b image/jpeg 2304 3072 4081844 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z689f Feng Zikai's 愛護生物 sketches. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z7f5t.xml 902aedc6967b6f7c5c572de8788c8fd7 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4197988 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z7f5t PETS OF THE MOVIES. Animals associated with spectacle, as promoted by the modern cinema. Advertising new "all barking pictures" (有聲對吠). One wonders if the dogs were matched with talking *voices* or just the sounds of their barks. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z94kk.xml a9d3ba321e2daf3a2284c8a2cb0e88dd image/jpeg 2304 3072 4406844 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001z94kk PETS OF THE MOVIES. MGM Studios, Universal, etc. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001za027.xml a1de6aeeebfc776341f2e5dcdf5bf7ef image/jpeg 2304 3072 4197419 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001za027 GROTESQUES IN ANIMAL LIFE. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zb3hz.xml 18d5efa6eaef256c3440aa861d096ee1 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4373342 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zb3hz GROTESQUES IN ANIMAL LIFE, part II. A deliberate selection of defamiliarized, but very "real" exotic animals. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zcfqb.xml 9e636555a755615e7e788f3b54a27de3 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4463175 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zcfqb Sheep were prevalent in the pages of Liang You. Here, there is a splash layout dedicated to THE SHEEP. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zd373.xml 3da990d5496622309e2750053f0a9046 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4158159 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zd373 Two page spread dedicated to the SHEEP. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001ze76e.xml 5d860c64864dcbe54465ae48677324e6 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4283506 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001ze76e FISHERY IMPROVEMENT EXHIBITION. What is improved about fisheries? Seems their ability to breed an ever-eclectic array of fish and crustaceans. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zf4cw.xml ceff77c8099d3865152a6c9fd83b88d1 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4604496 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zf4cw Some of these don't even look very edible to me. But what else are you expected to do with these "products of the sea" (海產)? Grind them up into medicine? http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zgkqr.xml a0ccbe4c3b79ca70c524cd52058e8941 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4151296 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zgkqr "THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN" (動物園) was a repeat feature, probably just used as space filler where needed. The idea was to collect an array of animals on one page -- enframed or caged, as it were, by the photographic box. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zha1s.xml 74fb708aad8983d51c4dd5086093b6aa image/jpeg 2304 3072 4418439 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zha1s THE "Good companions" (良友) to children (featured on the children's page) are animals and toys. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zkg5q.xml c1bd705c3402c2dcddc4c70a3c3cf0b6 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4050460 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zkg5q Animals Playing Stunts (動物的演藝) http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zpw1p.xml 95cf5089608411487089ba0487a27bdc image/jpeg 3072 2304 4353077 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zpw1p "Skilful members in the circus" (讀者馬戲團) http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zqdb6.xml ac31b3ee22611c1236d6fc623f63af16 image/jpeg 3072 2304 4023815 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zqdb6 The first pull-out spread featuring animals that I have come across. This one features "The Community of Dogs" (走狗展覽). http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zr2c0.xml 5cdd72b5d87bb689ba6c40d7360621e0 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4070985 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zr2c0 Many nations represented by their dogs -- English bulldog, "national symbol"; the Chinese Peke, Japanese Chin, Scottie. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zscxh.xml b48ee909315212691a012cc9898983f3 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4235882 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zscxh In "news of the world," bottom left corner features a picture of a mother swan ferrying her cygnets along the lake (another anthropomorphosized image of motherly love, of which there is obviously no shortage). Of interest to me is the movie still from *Gold Diggers of 1933* right next to the picture, where the "mass ornament" seems to be translated as 藝術圖案. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zt8zt.xml 6574a55ebd9491c28d9e47cd1090172c image/jpeg 3072 2304 4464417 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zt8zt Baby Gandhi, featured with a goat. Perhaps the goat accentuates his Gandhi-ness. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zwc5r.xml 41152c691228f4cf9c297a4288fba256 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4256044 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zwc5r Pictures of the German 海京柏 Circus. Even the animals are doing the mass ornament! http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zxdz3.xml 2f87a3f12ef9aac8c2ce4157c68c692a image/jpeg 2304 3072 4443558 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zxdz3 "The Surrounding Attack" http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zyab6.xml c908307ea0433b7b2b36b9282ff6e011 image/jpeg 3072 2304 4441852 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/001zyab6 A 2-page spread about recent efforts to promote the shooting of African animals with cameras, not rifles. "At a feast, shooting the lions with the camera is far more enjoyable than with a rifle." http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/00202kyg.xml a6bce4667733ecdc69c029f70ae29841 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4690101 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/00202kyg Shooting a lion hunt with a camera rather than a rifle; you get more of a sense of process and action, instead of something dead and taxidermiable. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/002039sx.xml 5e55d4f883ed741aa0f6c0aa75b1e4cf image/jpeg 2304 3072 4611091 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/002039sx Two page spread on "motherly love". http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/00207yg6.xml 6c5bc9343a40f5a381aae657f8e43a2a image/jpeg 2304 3072 4360183 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/00207yg6 "Motherly Love" http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020839h.xml ad8bdc7d76329d31dc21259afd8dcb80 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4611870 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020839h Full-page colored spread of a Pekingese, "或人的寵兒". http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/00209rws.xml 910b61e3ca48d9e5d04967dd94351eb8 image/jpeg 3072 2304 4490838 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/00209rws "The Animal Club" -- I mean, really, what?? A true miscellany of images here, all highly anthropomorphosized. I love it. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020atec.xml 0a6b2194fe232f3bacb0e68732f37dda image/jpeg 2304 3072 4656374 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020atec The Animal Club continued, "禽獸之俱樂部生活" http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020bcgx.xml a6da1bde6c3ad8eb36ca1811cb28ad0d image/jpeg 2304 3072 4486965 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020bcgx "Once Enemies, Now Friends", or a world without war (非戰世界). Slightly surprising pacifist rhetoric for the time. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020ca3p.xml 0502d3c64cbf23396bc0ccf99bc5d318 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4502316 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020ca3p "Once Enemies, Now Friends" continued. Cute Overload would call this "interspecies snorgling." http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020d09p.xml 2de9ebedd69ff26fe32420368a1b4874 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4643242 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020d09p "The Life and Death of an Adder" or, more melodramatically rendered in Chinese, 浪漫的悲劇. Photography reshapes time by offering the snake's life as a series of unfolding events, similar to the lion hunt but also stretched out over an animal 'lifespan'. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020eqg4.xml e8969d754d3108f5f6e2abb012a85434 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4565230 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020eqg4 Carrier Pigeon, "軍用鴿" -- animals with vocations. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020f4wz.xml e52a1b7696b43dd542e13d434ecb3b3d image/jpeg 2304 3072 4660380 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020f4wz This one caught my eye because of an associated article in the Far Eastern Miscellany (東方雜誌) written a few years earlier. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020g149.xml 7e0e72f578c804d6076b7a8b9dee78b1 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4609984 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020g149 Again, animals given vocations -- police dogs in training. Unlike other splash pages which often seem more collaged from an assorted collection of images, this one as well as the story on carrier pigeons is actually quite specific in theme. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020h1wz.xml 0c525573ab45a3f7e246234e9d70da82 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4534882 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020h1wz Police dogs in training. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020kbcf.xml b27478a558be45d0d4383b1ede147018 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4628782 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020kbcf Imitating human behavior, "人類的模仿" http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020p21q.xml b3383f60f022f4ec60831b8676305540 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4559731 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020p21q Imitating more human behavior. The odd one out seems to be the picture of the "well balanced" dog in the middle. Unless maybe he's supposed to be weight-lifting. Still, the discrepancy sort of highlights the performative aspect of all these pseudo-human-like acts. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020q0w6.xml 44f2b2eadcef9f2d566696331218adc8 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4409261 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020q0w6 "An Envious Situation" -- why? And what does that have to do with the Chinese title, "異國情調". http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020rzff.xml cdc84045b8f4c1c063b339e38b31fc01 image/jpeg 3072 2304 4491321 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020rzff There is always some feminine beauty in everything you see. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020s0gq.xml 212fcaf7a1be16d61adf50098fe42822 image/jpeg 2336 3504 3504960 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020s0gq There is always some feminine beauty in everything you see. http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020ty78.xml 0b6931b67af211b9b0d71b856ab1c95d image/jpeg 2336 3504 3471593 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020ty78 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020wbzc.xml 19a37af9476a0abfe8fa50cc43edb410 image/jpeg 3504 2336 3339026 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020wbzc http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020x0c8.xml 570c9fb396ba205f7f8ef96c68295b63 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4611756 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020x0c8 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020yy6x.xml e3ee266cc779686945c83925ae6eaa8a image/jpeg 2304 3072 4480990 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020yy6x Sikong Expedition led by Jack T. Young http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020zf5t.xml a4961bd2d36253f1257ed16da8f06a35 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4439280 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/0020zf5t http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/00210bse.xml aea5e895ed63d14fc8454cec4dc89698 image/jpeg 2304 3072 4437259 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/00210bse http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/00211s9q.xml 10ef0053c5f17f5906ce3d8f886aae6a image/jpeg 2304 3072 4273925 http://pics.livejournal.com/woquinoncoin/pic/00211s9q