Great Leap Forward (1956-1960)
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Designer: Jin Meisheng (金梅生)
1959, February
The vegetables are green, the cucumbers plumb, the yield is abundant
Cailü guafei chanliang duo
Publisher: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社)
Size: 77x53 cm.
Call number: E11/992
In the years of crop failures and famine following the Great Leap Forward, this poster with its abundant food is reprinted over and over again. A first edition of this poster is already published in 1956. This particular copy is an August 1963 reprint of the 1959 edition. The total number of copies runs to over a million.
