"Long Live the Friendship between Soviet Union and China", 1959.

"Develop Sports and Enhance People's Physical Fitness", 1953.

"Visiting Mother and New Baby in the Commune", 1957.

"Firmly Support the Black Americans in their Struggle for Justice", 1963.

"High Production of Green Vegetables and Fat Melons", 1956.

Industry Learns From Daqing, Agri. Learns from Dazhai, & the whole Country Learns from the PLA, 1971

'"Ballet Dance 'The Red Detachment of Women'", 1970.

"Telling the New Story (Gang of Four)", 1976.

"Revolutionary Committee is Fine", 1976.

"Carry out Birth Control for the Revolution", 1974.

"Warmly Cheer for the Successful Explosion of our Country's First Hydrogen Bomb", 1967.

"Carry on the Revolutionary Tradition to Be Determined to Strengthen China", 1984.

A 1989 poster featuring doves flying over Tiananmen Square.

"Hong Kong Returns, One Country, Two Systems", 1997.

"Love to Study, Study to Study, Use Your Knowledge".

Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center

April 14, 2024 in China ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

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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