Chinese Commercial Advertisement Archive
About Ephemera Project
Data Platform
The conditions of thought are found in the material communication of ideas in graphic form. Take these graphical arguments to be an underused archive, advertisement images suddenly become surprisingly philosophically and sociologically useful. Cartoon images like the lightbulb woman are meaningful because they are, among other factors, a pictorial version of ideas.
Conditions, thoughts, and actions are visible and open to discovery and analysis, no matter where on the globe historical action was taken.– Tani Barlow, “In the Event Of Women”
彭小莲，《红日风暴》
Peng Xiaolian and “Storm Under The Sun”
Film & Biographies
Online Screening
All the efforts are for one purpose only: to make this hidden story visible and to do justice for people who suffered. When facing politics, lives seem unworthy; but through our work, we want to prove that history will remember, in one way or the other, the deepest emotions that are attached to the sublime humanistic concerns for a better tomorrow.
– Louisa Wei, Co-director of Storm Under The Sun