Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center

This was undoubtedly the highlight of our time in Shanghai. I read about the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center in Atlas Obscura, and I knew I had to visit. Located on the seventh floor of a nondescript office building, this private museum featured propaganda posters from 1949 onwards.

We had a great time viewing the various posters. Some of them were just simply jaw dropping; China certainly didn't shy from commemorating Tiananmen Square, hydrogen bombs, and commenting on race relations in the United States. Our favorite was a somewhat homoerotic poster celebrating the special relationship with between China and the former Soviet Union. This poster featured a young Chinese man and a young blond Russian man, each with an arm around the other, and with their other hand clasped around the other man's hand.

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