Designer unknown
1968, April
Chairman Mao is the great liberator of the world's revolutionary people
Mao zhuxi shi shijie geming renminde da jiuxing
Size: 77x53 cm.
Call number: E16/339
China supports revolutionary movements in Africa, and exports Mao Zedong's publications for inspiration.
The chaos of the civil war is hidden behind the optimistic images of the early 1970s. They create the impression that China is a paradise, where abundance reigns and everyone is happy. Behind the scenes, the struggle for political power continues. But - with a few exceptions - the mass campaigns are over. Cautiously, the first luxury consumer goods are introduced. The first televisions appear on the Chinese market.
Li Zhenhua
1973, March
The brigade's ducks
Dadui yaqun
大队鸭群
Size: 53x77 cm.
Call number: E13/352
Example of a painting by a peasant from rural Huxian district. The peasant painters are propagated as examples of the innate genius of the people. In reality, these amateur artists are helped by professionals who have been sent to the countryside to 'learn from the peasants'.
Zhao Dawu
1973
Unite to achieve an even greater victory!
Tuanjie qilai, zhengqu gengdade shengli!
Size: 106x77 cm.
Call number: G1/962
The building in the background is the Great Hall of the People on Tian'anmen square in Beijing. The people are delegates to the Fourth National People's Congress, held there in 1973.
Hu Boya
1973, July
The factory is small, the aspirations high, striving to make great contributions
Chang xiao zhiqi gao, zhengzuo da gongxian
厂小志气高，争做大贡献
Size: 54x77 cm.
Call number: E12/738
Liu Zhigui
1974, August
The red electromagnetic wave brings good news
Hongse dianbo chuan xixun
Size: 53.5x77 cm.
Call number: E12/742
Work on the improvement of the farmland, roads and irrigation channels continues through the night. During a break, the workers are treated to a propaganda radio broadcast.
Designer unknown
ca. 1975
The construction of the bridge over the Long River at Nanjing is a great victory of Mao Zedong Thought!
Nanjing Changjiang daqiaode jiancheng shi Mao Zedong sixiangde weida shengli!
Size: 38.5x98.5 cm.
Call number: E12/617
According to the official propaganda, workers build this bridge, the Yangzi Bridge at Nanjing, all by themselves, guided only by Mao's writings. Engineers are no longer needed.
Zhao Kunhan
1975, January
The production brigade's reading room
Dadui tushushi
Size: 53x77 cm.
Call number: E12/124
The situation in the countryside improves. The production brigade now even has a reading room. On posters like this one, no detail is arbitrary. Every magazine and booklet pictured exists in real life.
Lu Juding
1975, May
Study well and grasp the theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat
Xuehao nongtong wuchan jieji zhuanzhengde lilun
Size: 77x106 cm.
Call number: E13/619
Yu Zhenli
1976, May
We must grasp revolution and increase production, increase work, increase preparation for struggle, to do an even better job
Yao zhua geming cu shengchan, cu gongzuo, cu zhanbei, ba gefangmiande gongzuo zuode geng hao
Size: 2 x 77x106 cm.
Call number: G2/29-30
Shao Hua; Shao Qinglin
1976, June
Herdspeople love to read books by Lenin and Marx
Mumin aidu Ma Lie shu
Size: 77x54 cm.
Call number: E15/199
State bookshop in the North of China, where Mongolians and other 'minority peoples' live. The young woman on the right carries rolls of posters in her bag.
Designer unknown
1976, August
Four not-having-to-bend scrolls (1, 2)
Si bu wan yao bing
Size: 2 x 77x53 cm.
Call number: E15/103
For centuries, rice cultivation was manual labour. Farmers had to stand in the water, bent over, to look after the rice plants. Mechanization brings this to an end.
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