This website shows over 4,950 Chinese propaganda posters, with information about their history, background and design. You can browse a Gallery of 200 highlights, look at over 300 theme presentations, or search and browse posters, artists and tags.

Gallery on Chinese Posters. 200 Highlights from our collections. This gallery can be browsed by section and by poster. The May Thirtieth Movement (1925)

Places of pilgrimage Jinggangshan (井冈山), the area where Mao set up his first ‘peasant soviet’ (1927-1928) Luding Bridge (泸定桥), crossed after heavy fighting during the Long March (1935) Shaoshan (韶山), Mao’s birthplace Xibaipo (西柏坡), the Communist headquarters in 1947-1948 Yan’an (延安), the Communist headquarters in 1935-1947

This website aims to present a large and authentic collection of Chinese propaganda posters (and some prints, papercuts and other images).

Often, these sub-campaigns came so hard and fast that propaganda posters had to serve as the main source of information for the people. With the country in complete chaos, these images which contained clear and unambiguous indications of what behavior and slogans were acceptable at that particular moment, were seen as more dependable than the ...

Posters. Theme Tags. Designer. Collection. Date. Sort by. Order. Items per page. An order given to the Shanghai Municipal Police: S… (1925) A Direct Violation of the Principle of Humanity (1925) ...

The posters below, all published in 1960, belied what actually had been taking place and continued to provide a surreal picture of life. Start the movement to increase production and practise thrift, with foodstuffs and steel at the center, with great force!, 1960

Some photographs featuring the use of propaganda posters, wallposters and big-character posters, and with artists at work. Resources Texts on Chinese art, posters and prints, a bibliography, publications by Stefan R. Landsberger, and links.

The title of this poster quotes the August 1966 big character poster by Mao, in which he accused other party leaders of treasonous and capitalist points of view and urged his supporters to overthrow his enemies. Big character posters were used …

With great sadness we inform you that Stefan Landsberger has passed away, completely unexpectedly, on 26 September 2024. He was, among many other things, co-founder and editor of this website, and owner of thousands of Chinese propaganda posters displayed here.