Message from skelly

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much for the walk through of the USC U.S.-China Institute’s website:

http://china.usc.edu/

I especially want to look at the previous web sites selected to help me find one to review myself. Is that cheating? I found it amusing (sorry….) listening to Dr. Dube attempting to keep the attention of all of us once we were seated in front of a screen, keyboard, and new web site to explore.

I have found, however, that signing in on the forum web page is easier:

http://uschinaforum.usc.edu

While Dr. Dube was trying to get our attention, I was searching for interesting pictures, and found one at the Tate Museum website:

http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/

The museum's explanation is especially interesting:

In 1949, dockers at Port-de-Bouc, near Marseilles, refused to load the government ships that were being sent to suppress claims for independence in the French colonies in Indo-China. Taslitzky painted Riposte to record his horror at the breaking of the strike by armed police. One policeman resembles Hitler - an especially powerful device for an artist who had been imprisoned by the Nazis. A woman striker seizes the French tricolore, symbol of the Revolutionary ideals. Government ministers were so sensitive to the painting that they ordered its removal from an exhibition in 1951.

The Western icon of Hitler representing the French armed police is similar to the propoganda posters we saw yesterday.

I have attached a copy of Riposte's painting, but you can locate other pieces that focus on Asia -- and European interpretations of Asia -- through the link to the tate.