Chinese Propaganda Posters, From Revolution to Modernization

LANDSBERGER, Stefan

ISBN 10: 9054960094 / ISBN 13: 9789054960096

Published by The Pepin Press, Amsterdam and Singapore, 2001

About this Item

In-4, broché couv. illustrée, illustrations pleines pages en noir et en couleurs, 216 pp. En anglais. Très bon état d occasion. Cet ouvrage nous propose des affiches montrant la propagande chinoise de la révolution à la modernisation. Images portraying model behaviour or a better future have been ubiquitous element of Chinese politiqual culture from Imperial times until the present. in-4°.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chinese Propaganda Posters, From Revolution to Modernization
• Publisher: The Pepin Press, Amsterdam and Singapore
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9054960094
• ISBN 13: 9789054960096
• Binding: Couverture souple
• Condition: Très bon état

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Synopsis

216pp, illustrated throughout in black and white and in colour. Traces the development of the style and conent of the Chinese propaganda poster in the decade of reform from its traditional origins

About the Author

Stefan R. Landsberger holds a PhD in Sinology from Leiden University, Netherlands. He is a Lecturer at the Documentation and Research Centre for Modern China, Sinological Institute, Leiden University, and one of the editors of the journal China Information. Landsberger has one of the largest private collections of Chinese propaganda posters in the world. He has published extensively on topics related to Chinese propaganda, and maintains an extensive website exclusively devoted to this genre of political communications Anchee Min was born and raised in Mao's China. A staunch party supporter, she was awarded the lead role in a film to be made by Mao's wife, Jiang Ching, but the death of Mao soon after caused the film to be cancelled. In 1984, Min emigrated to the United States and later wrote the bestselling biography Becoming Madame Mao. Poet and fiction writer Duo Duo was born in Beijing, China in 1951 and emigrated in 1989, later settling in the Netherlands, where he became a writer in residence at the Sinological Institute of Leiden University. He is considered one of the most outstanding poets to emerge after the Cultural Revolution.