Asia
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Chinese poster, ca. 1983
Text: NA. Year: ca. 1983. Publisher: Sichuan People’s Publishing House. Artist: Fan Huaizhang. Additional information: Poster shows Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, produced as part of a series of ‘New Year’ prints celebrating Chinese communist leaders.
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Chairman Mao gives us a happy life (Chinese poster, 1954)
Text: Chairman Mao gives us a happy life. Year: March 1954. Publisher: Sanyi Printing Company. Artist: Xin Liliang. Additional information: The poster depicts a happy domestic scene around the dinner table, with a large portrait of Mao hanging behind. It was one of many designed by Xin Liliang for the Shanghai-based ‘Sanyi Printing Company’ in…
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Japanese leaflet, 1941
Text: Have you really sold even your soul to those playing the part of a Liaozhai character? Year: 1941. Publisher: NA. Artist: NA. Additional information: This propaganda leaflet was printed for the Battle of Hong Kong, which was fought in December 1941 and ended in Japanese victory, and shows a British soldier-wolf leading an unsuspecting…
