A 1980 lianhuanhua version of Xingqiu dazhan 星球大战 (Star Wars)

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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.

[Meng Lelan]

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. 

[Ruben von Zwack]

Meng Lelan, do you still have any of these? Chinese classics in colour plates sounds like... like something I'd kill for

[Meng Lelan]

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/

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Here is another: Comic-Book - Dream of the Red Chamber with VCD (click the image for a preview of a page)

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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.