Ideology is essentially everywhere in any society, and the more traditional Chinese society that gave birth to tiehua is no exception. Chinese art was inherently influenced from all varieties of ideology prominent in society: these range from the visual, i.e. iconographic representation
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When the Chinese Communist Party’s wave of revolution gained control of the entirety of Mainland China, the nation sought to redefine itself into a New China. The ways of the past were largely to be abandoned and the Chinese people would work
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While tiehua came into existence during the later 1600s, the early Qing dynasty, its influences can be traced far back into Chinese history, particularly during the Song dynasty (960-1276). Despite its distance from painted art, tiehua was still inherently based on the
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The relative prosperity experienced during the Kangxi period greatly contrast with the condition of Manchu China in the nineteenth century. By this time, China was entering one of its most challenging phases—being bombarded inside and out. Internal rebellions shook the social order
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Even at the founding of the new dynasty, the Manchus exploited a weak position of the Han Chinese Ming dynasty. After the rebel Li Zicheng took Beijing in 1636, Ming officials called upon the Manchus for help, but this led to the
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