Chinese Propaganda Posters from the Collection of Michael Wolf

About this book

With his smooth warm red face which radiated light in all directions Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the Peoples Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s. These infamous posters were in turn central fixtures in Chinese homes railway stations schools journals magazines and just about anywhere else where people were likely to see them. Chairman Mao portrayed as a stoic superhero (a.k.a. the Great Teacher the Great Leader the Great Helmsman the Supreme Commander) appeared in all kinds of situations (inspecting factories smoking a cigarette with peasant workers standing by the Yangzi River in a bathrobe presiding over the bow of a ship or floating over a sea of red flags) flanked by strong healthy ageless men and ""masculinized"" women and children wearing baggy sexless drab clothing.