character Posted June 1, 2014 at 07:15 AM Report Share Posted June 1, 2014 at 07:15 AM http://www.mcgreene.org/?p=296 "Once, a seller who queried me about what I was looking for in somewhat halting English reacted with surprise when I responded in Chinese that I was looking for opera lianhuanhua, especially anything with ghosts. He dragged a few things out (most of which I bought), then pointed to another one, which was neither opera nor ghost related. "It was Star Wars. In lianhuanhua form. From 1980. It was simply so incongruous I couldn’t leave it behind." The post has links to scans of it at the bottom. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meng Lelan Posted June 2, 2014 at 01:14 AM Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 at 01:14 AM The lianhuanhua I used to buy in the 1990s in Shanghai and Beijing were incredible. They would do all the Chinese classics in color plates. Now there were some western classics too, including Shakespeare but none so spectacular what they were doing with Journey to the West and so forth. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruben von Zwack Posted June 2, 2014 at 07:36 PM Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 at 07:36 PM Meng Lelan, do you still have any of these? Chinese classics in colour plates sounds like... like something I'd kill for Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meng Lelan Posted June 2, 2014 at 11:26 PM Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 at 11:26 PM Oh they were fabulous. I still have the Journey to the West color plate version from the 1990s. I don't think they publish anything like this anymore but hope I am wrong about this as I have not been shopping in Shanghai for eons. Scroll halfway down this link to see a photo from one of the pages: http://miparentscouncil.org/2013/05/12/developing-literacy-in-chinese-part-1/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
character Posted June 3, 2014 at 01:54 AM Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2014 at 01:54 AM Here is another: Comic-Book - Dream of the Red Chamber with VCD (click the image for a preview of a page) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
character Posted June 3, 2014 at 10:50 AM Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2014 at 10:50 AM Some more: 西游记 ISBN 978-7-5012-2793-8 红楼梦 ISBN 7-5012-2794-2 水浒传 ISBN 7-5312-1205-6 Also of the books listed here, 中國的風俗習慣（二）中國民間故事（一）中國歷史故事（一）中國歷史故事（二） have occasional color plates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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