Ren Wei is an assistant professor of art history at Dickinson College. Her research focuses on modern Chinese art and design and she is completing a book manuscript on book cover design in Republican China.
Ren Wei
Contributions
Heroic and Everyday: Jiang Xin's Book Cover Design and Modern Art in Republican China (1911–1949)
In 1925, China’s foremost modern writer and intellectual Lu Xun (1881–1936) lamented the superficial nature of modern book design, writing: “It seems that one is only capable of drawing a soldier on a horse dashing forward, as if this is the representation of the so-called ‘revolution, revolution!’”[1] For Lu Xun, unsophisticated revol