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Propaganda Posters
Directions: Use your notes on The People’s Republic of China to determine the title and
description of each propaganda poster. Write the appropriate slide number in blank provided.
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Prepare for struggle, prepare for famine, for the people
The threat of an invasion by the Soviet Union or America plays an important role in propaganda, to
keep the population in a constant state of alertness.
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Spring breeze in Yangliu
Fresh-eyed youngsters from the city arrive in the countryside for resettlement. During the Cultural
Revolution an estimated 12 million boys and girls were sent 'Up to the mountains, down to the
villages' in order to be reeducated by the poor and lower-middle peasants.
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Scatter the old world, build a new world
A Red Guard at work. The smashing is not just meant symbolically. Property of 'rightists',
monasteries, temples and other things considered old, bourgeois or decadent are literally smashed
to pieces.
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Advance victoriously while following Chairman Mao's revolutionary line in literature and the arts
…the height of the Mao worship…
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Bombard the capitalist headquarters
The title of this poster quotes a big character poster by Mao, in which he accuses other party
leaders of treasonous and capitalist points of view and urges his supporters to overthrow his
enemies.
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Overthrow Peng Dehuai, Luo Ruiqing, Chen Zaidao, Liao Laotan!
Peng Dehuai is the best known among
Liberation Army, and criticized Mao
maltreated. He dies in captivity in
after being accused and maltreated,
the people attacked here. He was Marshal of the People's
during the Great Leap Forward. In 1966 he is arrested and
1974. Luo Ruiqing, Chief of Staff of the PLA, attempts suicide
but survives and is rehabilitated in 1975.
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Less births, better births, to develop China vigorously
In the 1980s, the One Child Policy is enforced, with more success in the cities than in the
countryside. On posters like this it is usually girls that are shown, to indicate that they are
worth as much as boys.
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The red electromagnetic wave brings good news
Work on the improvement of the farmland, roads and irrigation channels continues through the night.
During a break, the workers are treated to a propaganda radio broadcast.
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To villages we go, to the borders we go, to places in the fatherland where we are most needed we go
From late 1968, millions of youth are sent from the cities to the countryside to learn from the
peasants. This is meant to end the chaos and the struggle for power among the Red Guard groups.
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Chairman Mao is the great liberator of the world's revolutionary people
China supports revolutionary movements in Africa, and exports Mao Zedong's publications for
inspiration.
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On the banks of the Yangzi river, Daqing blooms
The Daqing oilfields, in the style of a traditional Chinese landscape painting.
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Following Chairman Mao forever making revolution
Mao and his main allies during the Cultural Revolution…: Kang Sheng, head of the Secret Service;
Zhou Enlai, prime minister and secretary of state; Mao; Lin Biao, secretary of defense and the
mastermind behind the Mao worship; Chen Boda, Mao's long-standing private secretary; and finally
Jiang Qing, Mao's wife.
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Selling the fruits of a bumper harvest in a friendly manner
During the Cultural Revolution customers have to treat shop staff with respect and submission: the
workers are the bosses. Now kindness and politeness from the staff towards customers are encouraged
again.
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The brigade's ducks
Example of a painting by a peasant from rural Huxian district. The Huxian peasant painters are
propagated as examples of the innate genius of the people. In reality, these amateur artists are
helped by professionals who have been sent to the countryside to 'learn from the peasants'.
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The commune's fishpond