This website shows over 5,000 Chinese propaganda posters, with information about their history, background and design. You can browse a Gallery of 200 highlights, look at over 300 theme presentations, or search and browse posters, artists and tags.

Criticize the old world and build a new world with Mao Zedong Thought as a weapon, 1966. The Cultural Revolution (文化大革命, Wenhua Dageming, 1966-1976) was a mass campaign of enormous dimensions. Aside from the general revolutionary high-tide that swept China, the period was marked by a large number of sub-campaigns.

Gallery on Chinese Posters. 200 Highlights from our collections. This gallery can be browsed by section and by poster. The May Thirtieth Movement (1925)

In a poster showing the new leadership group of Hong Kong, Chinese poster artists have once more turned to the photo-realist style so popular in the 'amateur' art of the early 1970s. p. 36. Postscript

Big-character posters are used to denounce people as opponents of the Revolution. Red Guards (pupils and students who swear loyalty to Mao and his Little Red Book) destroy anything that is branded ‘old’ and eliminate people considered 'rightists'. The …

Posters. Theme Tags. Designer. Collection. Date. Sort by. Order. Items per page. An order given to the Shanghai Municipal Police: S… (1925) A Direct Violation of the Principle of Humanity (1925) ...

Chinese Poster "Scatter the old world, build a new world" | A Red Guard at work, smashing books, religious sculptures and other items considered as the 'Four Olds' (四旧). In the background groups of Red Guards storm buildings and take down signboards.

The ‘Shanghai Style’ in architecture, arts, design and fashion blended Eastern and Western elements, especially Art Deco. As for posters, Shanghai was home to the largest printing, advertising and publishing companies, both for traditional New Year prints and commercial advertising posters.

In the early 1970s, the extreme and more religious aspects of Mao's personality cult were being dismantled. In propaganda posters, proxies such as Lei Feng - or one of his reincarnations - and Chen Yonggui (the model Party secretary of Dazhai Commune) often replaced Mao himself. This did not diminish the adulation of Mao, who continued to lead ...

A propaganda poster celebrating the Chinese Communist Party. After 1949, pursuing hobbies like collecting came in for criticism as “wallowing in petty bourgeois amusements.”