1st Edition

Chinese Propaganda Posters: From Revolution to Modernization From Revolution to Modernization

By Stefan Landsberger Copyright 1996
240 Pages
by Routledge

Brightly coloured prints, portraying model behaviour or a better future, have been a ubiquitous element of Chinese political culture from Imperial times until present. As economic reform swept the People's Republic in the 1980s, visual propaganda ceased to depict the tanned and muscular labourers in a proletarian utopia, so typical of preceding decades. Instead, Western icons of progress and... Read more

TRADITIONAL AND MODERN PROPAGATION OF BEHAVIOUR IN CHINA, PRECURSORS OF VISUAL PROPAGANDA IN TRADITIONAL CHINA, PRECURSORS OF THE CHINESE PROPAGANDA POSTER, COMMUNIST VISUAL PROPAGANDA, THE COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA POSTER UNTIL THE FOUR MODERNIZATIONS ERA, THE PROPAGANDA POSTER DURING THE FOUR MODERNIZATIONS ERA, THE FOUR MODERNIZATIONS ERA, POSTER ART AND THE FOUR MODERNIZATIONS, THE FUTURE SYMBOLIZED: PROPAGANDA POSTERS OF THE FOUR MODERNIZATIONS ERA, AN ANALYSIS OF GENERAL SUBJECTS, AN ANALYSIS OF SPECIFIC TARGET GROUPS , THE FUTURE VISUALIZED: AN ANALYSIS OF SYMBOLISM AND IMAGERY, EPILOGUE

Biography

Dr Landsberger is a prominent Dutch sinologist at the Univeristy of Leyden, the Netherlands.