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Title: Chinese propaganda poster collection
Identifier/Call Number: Mss 360
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
Chinese
Physical Description:
8 linear feet
(2 map cabinet drawers)
Date (inclusive): 1958-1987
Date (bulk): 1970s
Abstract: Chinese propaganda posters on a variety of subjects and themes, ranging from the 1950s through the early 1980s.
Language of Material: Poster captions in Chinese.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Library purchase, 2018.
[Identification of Item], Chinese propaganda poster collection, Mss 360. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa
Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
These posters reflect the shifting priorities of the Chinese government from the 1960s through the 1980s, including the promotion
of Cultural Revolution-era political movements, agricultural modernization, efforts to raise the social standing of women,
the relative opening of society under Deng Xiaoping, and the cult of personality around Party leadership. Some of them are
fairly straightforward didactic tools, while others represent sophisticated efforts to express ideological points through
artwork that was sufficiently appealing to be displayed willingly in people's residences.
Chinese propaganda posters on a variety of subjects and themes, including military themes, agriculture, the arts, leaders,
sanitation, patriotism, and women workers. Posters range from the late 1950s through the early 1980s.
These posters have been arranged by subject and have been divided into the following series: Agriculture and Industry, Film
and Performing Arts, Leaders, Heroes, and Martyrs, Military, New Year's and Decoratrive Posters, Patriotism and Political
Campaigns, Sanitation and Disease Control, and Women Workers.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Political posters, Chinese
Propaganda, Chinese
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Posters
Political posters