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空气稀薄

9.
Designer unknown
1967, April
Hold high the great red banner of Mao Zedong Thought - thoroughly smash the rotting counterrevolutionary revisionist line in literature and the arts
Gaoju Mao Zedong sixiang weida hongqi - chedi za lan fangeming xiuzheng zhuyi wenyi luxian
Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, print no. T8081.9989
Call number: BG E13/719

'Monsters and Demons' (niugui sheshen) was the term used to vilify specialists, scholars and authority figures during the Cultural Revolution. After the publication of the editorial "Sweep Away All Monsters and Demons" in People's Daily on 1 June 1966, and after it was rebroadcast and reprinted, Red Guards started a huge purge that swept the country, 'dragging out' and prosecuting all those ostensibly fitting the description. Niugui sheshen (cow monsters and snake demons) was the most recurrent supernatural metaphor used during the Cultural Revolution. It was rooted in Buddhist demonology, and an especially potent weapon to demonize one's opponents. All 'evil spirits' could be identified and combated with the 'demon-exposing mirror' (zhaoyao jing) of Mao Zedong Thought, which in this poster is conveniently held up.

Not only people were identified as monsters, all publications that were seen as old and feudal and therefore opposing Mao or his policies were classified as poisonous weeds and destroyed.

That left China with one author: Mao.

空气稀薄

10.
Designer unknown
early 1970s
Growing up in the midst of struggle
Zai douzheng zhong chengzhang
Publisher unknown, print no. unknown (imprint removed!)
Call number: BG E15/151

The destruction of undesirable thought and publication was taught to one and all. The poster shows the determination and fanaticism with which children re-enact an event in which somebody is called to account for spreading counterrevolutionary publications, scattered on the floor. Judging by the looks of the two grown-ups, this is clearly no laughing matter. The slogan on the wall reads "Struggle to strengthen the dictatorship of the proletariat!"

空气稀薄

11.
Literacy Office of the Political Work Group of the Revolutionary Committee of Shanxi Province collective work
early 1970s
The red flower of Dazhai blossoms everywhere
Dazhai honghua biandi kai
Shanxi renmin chubanshe, print no. 8088.564
Call number: BG E15/497

As the Cultural Revolution unfurled, only one person and one type of publications became acceptable: Mao and his writings. Their influence went beyond nuclear arms and Yangzi bridges: rural model communes such as Dazhai (in Shanxi) and industrial models like Daqing (in Heilongjiang) could only exist because they were inspired by Mao Thought and Mao actively supported them.

空气稀薄

12.
Revolutionary Committee of the Sichuan Art Academy
1969, April
Educated youth must go to the countryside to receive re-education from the Poor and Lower-Middle peasants!
Zhishi qingnian dao nongcun qu, jieshou pinxiazhong nongde zaijiaoyu!
Sichuan renmin chubanshe, print no. 69032
Call number: BG E15/35

From December 1968 onward, millions of urban youth (secondary school graduates and students) were sent "up to the mountains and down to the villages" (shangshan xiaxiang), i.e. to rural villages and to frontier settlements. There, they had to strike root, in order to be reeducated by the Poor and Lower-Middle peasants, the lowest classes in China. The main reason behind this relocation program was to bring the Red Guards under control and to halt the intense factional struggle and civil strife. With the schools still closed, the government did not know what to do with the millions of urban young.

One way to solve the problem was to send the students away to the rural areas. Judging from the many posters that were dedicated to shangshan xiaxiang, the youngsters all enjoyed the wholesome life in the countryside, and thrived under the stern but correct ideological guidance provided by the peasants. All this should transform them into "new-style, cultured peasants". The young intellectuals were also seen as conveyor belts for technology transfer, as bringers of new knowledge to the rural areas. The slogan in the background reads "Always follow the course of cooperation with workers-soldiers-peasants".

空气稀薄

13.
Liu Aimin
1974, September
Bringing books to the mountain areas
Song shu dao shanqu
Shaanxi renmin chubanshe, print no. 8094.315
Call number: BG E15/71

The idea that the Poor and Lower-Middle peasants were the fount of revolutionary knowledge and theory, the true and only teachers of urban educated youth, was amply illustrated by endless amounts of posters of them welcoming the arrival of new political publications. They did not hesitate to spend their hard-earned income on these booklets.

空气稀薄

14.
Shao Hua, Shao Qinglin
1976, June
Herdspeople love to read books by Marx and Lenin
Mumin aidu Ma Lie shu
Renmin meishu chubanshe, print no. 8027.6304
Call number: BG E15/199

Obviously, the successive campaigns to combat illiteracy that we've seen earlier had been a success, to the extent that even the members of the proletariat had become skilful Marxist-Leninist theoreticians. The slogan in the bookstore - in Chinese and Mongolian - reads "Read and study conscientiously and get a good grasp of Marxism".

空气稀薄

15.
Liu Zhide
1975, January
Old party secretary (Selected from the Huxian peasant painting exhibition)
Lao shuji (Xuan zi Huxian nongmin huazhan)
Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 4th edition, print no. 8171.890, circulation 1,340,000
Call number: BG E13/344

空气稀薄

16.
Designer unknown
1975, July
Set the record of history straight
Ba diandaode lishi zai diandao guolai
Tianjin renmin meishu chubanshe, print no. 8073.10165
Call number: BG E13/951

'Safe' books devoted to Mao Zedong Thought and subjects related to the Maoist interpretation of reality not only served as 'guides' for the great masses of the people, but also were essential reading material for leaders at every level. Ranging from party secretaries in the rural areas to factory foremen heading the Pi Lin pi Kong campaign (Criticize Lin [Biao], criticize Confucius), the official version of events as it was handed down had to be scrutinized, studied and applied in practice.

空气稀薄

17.
Designer unknown
early 1970s
Awake in the middle of the night
Shenye bu mian
Publisher unknown, print no. unknown
Call number: BG E13/814

空气稀薄

18.
Geng Yuemin
1975, June
Lead people to victory
Yin ren ru sheng
Jilin renmin chubanshe, 2nd edition, print no. 8091.658
Call number: BG E13/341

空气稀薄

Wang Baogui
1978, September
Let's do another test (Yangliuqing New Year print)
Zai kao yici (Yangliuqing nianhua)
Tianjin Yangliuqing huadian, print no. 8174.102
Call number: BG E13/321

空气稀薄

20.
Qian Yunxuan
1978, September
Study hard, make progress every day
Haohao xuexi, tiantian xiangshang
Tianjin renmin meishu chubanshe, 2nd edition, print no. 8073.20354
Call number: BG E13/320

As the 1970s progressed, books increasingly were used to acquire differing types of information, although the orthodoxy of the written word remained. Political study during the night used to be popular and gave people the opportunity to earn praise and certificates, as in No. 17. This gave way to children reading cartoons and illustrated booklets about martyrs for the Communist cause. This in turn gave way to books that merely contained depoliticisized or book knowledge.

空气稀薄

21.
Mao Wenbiao
1977, March
The shared wish of one billion people - Warmly welcome the publication of the fifth volume of Selected Works of Mao Zedong
Yiwan renminde gongtong xinyuan - Relie huanhu 'Mao Zedong xuanji' diwu juan chuban
Renmin meishu chubanshe, print no. 8027.6557
Call number: BG G2/11

空气稀薄

22.
Wu Zhefu, Li Mubai
1978, April
What I longed for has arrived
Pandaole
Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, print no. 8081.11137
Call number: BG E15/398

In this atmosphere of apparent relaxation, China's star author would make one last come-back. And the cruel thing was: Mao did not even write his latest and last blockbuster! Within a month after his death, the Central Committee of the CCP decided that work was to start in preparation of the publication of new, additional volumes of the Selected Works of Mao Zedong. Although Mao already had ordered preparations for the publication of the fifth and even sixth volumes of selections from his Thought in the late 1960s, this activity had been brought to a stand-still as a result of the fierce and destructive factional struggles in the Cultural Revolution. Nonetheless, the work as published basically followed the structure laid out in the late 1960s. The Volume V that was published in April 1977 showed that Mao's writings would continue to serve as useful ideological precepts and that Mao as the founding father of the Chinese Revolution could not be assailed. His more pragmatic decisions and writings were highlighted, whereas his radical ideas that had proven disastrous (Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution) were downplayed as much as possible. The 500-page Volume V, heralded as China's major literary event of 1977, brought the date of Mao's writings closer to the present: it contained a selection of essays written in the period 1949-1957, i.e., from the founding of the PRC to the end of the Hundred Flowers Movement. The new writings rehabilitated many of the functionaries who had fallen victim of the Cultural Revolution and the preface, moreover, singled out the radicals around Jiang Qing for persecution by presenting them as 'ultra-leftists', who in reality were 'right-wing' revisionists. The publication was a resounding success. According to incomplete statistics, more than 28 million copies had been distributed by the end of April 1977.

空气稀薄

30.
Designer unknown
ca. 1994
Love the teacher
Re'ai laoshi
Publisher unknown, print no. unknown
Call number: BG E13/534-45 (series)

东方旭日

及其鲜明的时代特色啊~~~ 虽然那个时候有些事情有点太过了, 可还是有东西值得我们怀念~~

try1st

其实真的很有特色

wyd2008

这个教授很有眼光哈
我以前看过这类宣传画，没有想到老外也收藏他们。

stkanon

原帖由 东方旭日 于 2008-9-15 00:13 发表
及其鲜明的时代特色啊~~~ 虽然那个时候有些事情有点太过了, 可还是有东西值得我们怀念~~

同感, 那个时代一些纯朴的东西如今已流失在浮躁的商业社会中, 不禁嘘唏感叹
有几张画虽然看了很囧, 但有几张看了觉得心里挺温暖的, 这种感觉在当今社会找不着了

ATIer

很有特色哦，我妈妈看了还感慨了半天呢～