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Contextualizing Chinese propaganda posters
Ephemera and ArchivesRice University Chao Center for Asian
Studies, Houston2-4 December 2011
What are posters?
• Xuanchuan hua (propaganda images)• Nianhua (New Year’s prints)• Huapian (“posters”)
Yan’an, 1942
everything must change
Mao’s observations:
“Literature and art [must] become a component part of the whole revolutionary machinery, so they can act as a powerful weapon in uniting and educating the people ...”
“What we demand is a unity of politics and art, a unity of content and form, a unity of revolutionary political content and the most perfect artistic form possible.”
(Mao Zedong, Yan’an, 1942)
• Nianhua (New Year’s prints)• Youhua (oil painting)• Shuifenhua (water colors)• Mubanhua (blockprints)• Zhongguo hua (“Chinese” painting)• Diaoke, suzao (carvings, statues)• Xuanchuan hua (propaganda images)
Ha Qiongwen
Numbers
Consumption
Jin Hun 金婚
Wang Gui and Anna 王贵与安娜
286 pages with 250 color illustrations978-3-7913-4389-1
€ 19,95, US$ 24.95, £ 14.99Prestel Verlag, Munich, 2009
http://chineseposters.net