Chinese Posters

This website shows over 5,150 Chinese propaganda posters, with information about their history, background and design. You can browse a Gallery of 200 highlights, look at over 300 theme presentations, or search and browse posters, artists and tags.

Highlighted posters

New technology is flowering

New technology is flowering

New technology is flowering (1979, July)

Pursue new knowledge, be bold in creation

Pursue new knowledge, be bold in creation (1986, July)

Raising new seedlings

Raising new seedlings (1990, January)

Industrial census. It is an important foundation to implement the modernization of management

Industrial census. It is an important foundation to implement the modernization of management (1985, October)

Recently added posters

Machines plow the land, one person equals a thousand people

Machines plow the land, one person equals a thousand people (ca. 1950)

Implement the three-in-one combination vigorously for technological innovation and technological revolution

Implement the three-in-one combination vigorously for technological innovation and technological revolution (1965, April )

Science has dangers and difficulties, arduous effort can cross barriers

Science has dangers and difficulties, arduous effort can cross barriers (1979, February)

Love science and technology from a young age and climb to higher summits once you grow up

Love science and technology from a young age and climb to higher summits once you grow up (1978, February)

Work hard to learn elementary knowledge; Climb the peak of science and technology

Work hard to learn elementary knowledge; Climb the peak of science and technology (1978, March)

We must complete the liberation of Taiwan for the sacred cause of unifying the motherland

We must complete the liberation of Taiwan for the sacred cause of unifying the motherland (1977, June)

Comrades-in-arms

Comrades-in-arms (1977, September)

The capture of Loushan pass

The capture of Loushan pass (early 1970s)

Chairman Mao at the Ma'anshan steelworks

Chairman Mao at the Ma'anshan steelworks (1961, March)

Open-door schooling is good

Open-door schooling is good (early 1970s)

Study culture to realize the Four Modernizations

Study culture to realize the Four Modernizations (1959, December)

Happy to see one more peak among the mountains

Happy to see one more peak among the mountains (1974-1975)

The iron dragon passes through endless mountain ranges

The iron dragon passes through endless mountain ranges (1974-1975)

Iron bastion - joint defence by the army and the people

Iron bastion - joint defence by the army and the people (ca. 1970)

Great unity of nationalities from the whole country

Great unity of nationalities from the whole country (1959, March)

Save enthusiastically, support socialist construction in the motherland

Save enthusiastically, support socialist construction in the motherland (1955, August)

Gallery

A selection of 200 higlights from our collections. Go to the gallery, or pick something from below:

Themes

Over 300 theme presentations, with posters and background information. Some popular themes:

The Great Leap Forward

Great Leap Forward (1958-1961)

Cultural Revolution Campaigns

Cultural Revolution Campaigns (1966-1976)

Working Women

Quotations from Chairman Mao

Quotations from Chairman Mao