Han Da Li Zhong | (Part 1) Collector's Edition Comic Strip "Midnight" Ye Xiong painting

Summary: This is a comic strip based on Mao Dun's long and famous book "Midnight", divided into two volumes.

"Midnight" is the story of Shanghai in the late spring and early summer of 1930. At that time, a great war between the new Warlords of the Kuomintang broke out, with Chiang Kai-shek on one side and Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang on the other. The people are devastated, all kinds of industries are withering, and the national bourgeoisie is also in a state of flux and struggle. With its magnificent and profound artistic conception and colorful artistic image, the novel presents a broad picture of the urban life of semi-feudal and semi-colonial old China in the 1930s; It has profoundly revealed the two-sidedness and weakness of the Chinese national bourgeoisie. It is a chapter of historical significance. The comic strip focuses on the struggle between the national capitalist Wu Sunfu and the comprador financial capitalist Zhao Botao, and the exploitation and suppression of workers by Wu Sunfu and his gang, and the final defeat. The previous episode describes the death of Wu Sunfu's old lady. Just when the guests were like clouds and came to mourn, Wu Sunfu formed his grand plan. He has his own factory and a factory enterprise in his hometown of Shuangqiao; He also cooperated with national capitalists Sun Jiren and Wang Hefu to organize the Yizhong Trust Company and set up a large-scale business. Fantasize about building your own kingdom of capital. However, on the road to the development of his great cause, he encountered the obstruction of Zhao Botao, a comprador financial capitalist supported by the US imperialist consortium, and thus formed a situation of Wu Zhao Doufa.

Painter Introduction: Ye Xiong, a native of Chongming, Shanghai. Pseudonym Xia Cao, Gu Yin, born on September 16, 1950. Han Chinese, Shanghai Chongming people. He graduated from Wusong No. 3 Middle School in 1965 and graduated from the Department of Chinese Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University. He is good at Chinese painting and comic strips. 264 factory workers. He is a member of the China Artists Association, a member of the Shanghai Branch of the China Artists Association, a director of the Shanghai Comic Strip Research Association, a painter of the Shanghai Huangpu Painting Academy, and a standing director of the Shanghai Old Town Box Calligraphy and Painting Society. Since 1970, he has created hundreds of kinds of comic strips and more than 20,000 paintings over the years. He won the second prize of the 2nd National Comic Strip Award and the third prize of the 3rd National Comic Book Award. He is currently a member of the China Artists Association, a member of the Comic Art Committee of the China Artists Association, a director of the Shanghai Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Association, a director of the Shanghai Artists Association and the director of the Children's Art Committee, a director of the Shanghai Comic Book Research Association, a painter of the Shanghai Huangpu Painting Academy, a vice president of the Shanghai Democratic League Calligraphy and Painting Institute, and a standing director of the Shanghai Old Town Box Calligraphy and Painting Association. His works "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest", "Midnight", "Statue of Zheng Banqiao" and so on are collected by the Shanghai Art Museum and the Shanghai Library. Since 1970, he has created hundreds of kinds of comic strips and more than 20,000 paintings over the years. He won the second prize of the 2nd National Comic Strip Award and the third prize of the 3rd National Comic Book Award.