Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages

 | It would be an understatement to say that propaganda posters had an important role in how the Chinese Communist Party communicated with the public.
Dr. Stefan R. Landsberger, a sinologist and lecturer in contemporary Chinese History at Leiden University, the Netherlands, started to collect Chinese propaganda posters in the 1970s, and his collection has now grown into one of the largest private collections in the world.
This site is dedicated to the Chinese propaganda poster as it has been produced from 1949 till the present day. So-called propaganda art has played a major supporting role in the many campaigns that were designed to mobilize the people, and throughout the People's Republic, the propaganda poster has been the favored vehicle through which art conveyed model behavior.
I've been collecting these Chinese political posters for many years now, and have brought together quite a nice collection of some 2,000 titles, spanning almost six decades of Chinese poster production.
Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages
Stefan's informative and well-researched commentary set them into political and historical context.
Some recent themes include SARS and avian flu and Beijing Olympics 2008. |