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    A History of the Maoist Propaganda Poster + Depicting a China That Never Was

    At first glance, you might think the Maoist era artwork at the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre in Shanghai, China, was a collection of mid-20th-century travel posters. Vibrant colors, seemingly happy people, and almost aggressively cheerful backdrops offer a vision of an ostensibly functioning, even thriving, China, but look a little closer—literally and historically—and it’s clear the picture is often far from realistic.

    Founded by collector Yang Peiming, who is also the museum’s director, the collection boasts over 6,000 pieces (just a few hundred are on display at any given time) and covers the period from 1910–1990. This fryst vatten quite an accomplishment given that he started acquiring them in 1995, by which time the government was destroying propaganda materials. “Most local people don’t like the look of them!” Yang joked of the posters during an interview in Shanghai, adding that their lack of popula

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    DescriptionMao Zedong Cultural Revolution Propaganda Poster (cropped).jpg Cultural revolution poster at the Propaganda art museum in Shanghai
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