China
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The Three Principles of the People (Chinese poster, ca. 1927)
Text: The Three Principles of the People. Year: ca. 1927. Publisher: Kuomintang. Artist: NA. Additional information: The poster depicts a farmer, soldier, and politician representing the people’s welfare, nationalism, and democracy. The ‘Three Principles’ were set out by Sun Yat-sen, father of the Republic of China, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as…
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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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Close friendship (Chinese poster, 1956)
Text: Close friendship. Year: 1956. Publisher: Shanghai Pictorial Publishing House. Artist: Li Mubai. Additional information: Poster depicts Ho Chi Minh’s arrival in Beijing the previous year, on 26 June 1955.
