Chinese Propaganda Posters

by Anchee Min, Duo Duo, Stefan R. Landsberger, et al.

Book Overview

With his smooth, warm, ruddy face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the People's Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s.

Chairman Mao, portrayed as a stoic superhero (aka 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3836557479
• ISBN13: 9783836557474
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.8" x 7.9"