Speaker: Wu Xueshan

Time: November 22, 2015, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Location: Report Hall on the Second Floor of Guanshan Yue Art Museum

Wu Xueshan obtained her undergraduate and master's degrees from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1998 and 2003, and her doctoral degree from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2015. have been teaching at Central University for Nationalities since 2003.  was a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 2011 to 2012.

The concept of the Great Wall of flesh and blood became deeply ingrained in people's hearts with the popularity of the March of the Volunteers in 1935, but its emergence occurred in 1933. The painting by Liang Zhongming, published in the April issue of the Current Affairs Monthly, titled "Only the Great Wall made of blood and flesh can prevent the enemy from destroying it!" established the image of the "Great Wall of blood and flesh" at both the conceptual and visual levels. This illustration is aimed at the outbreak of the Great Wall Anti Japanese War in early 1933, and the connection between "flesh and blood" and "the Great Wall" emerged in the coverage and discussion of the Great Wall Anti Japanese War in newspapers, magazines, news photography, and other mass media at that time. This article mainly discusses the historical context in which this concept first emerged, the generation and evolution of related images, and why the Great Wall gained new meaning in the 1930s.