Bibliography
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Publications on art, design and posters in China.
Julia F. Andrews, Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China 1949-1979 (Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1994)
Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen, A Century in Crisis. Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China (New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1998)
Jean-Yves Bajon, Les années Mao - Une histoire de la Chine en affiches (1949-1979) (Paris: Les Éditions de Pacifique, 2001)
John Bayne, "Nostalgia and Aspiration in Popular Chinese Culture: Urban Calendar Perspectives", Bulletin of the British Association for China Studies 1997, pp. 20-36
Elizabeth Bell (ed.), Art and China's Cultural Revolution. A Guide to the Exhiibition (New York: Asia Society, 2008)
Robert Benewick, Facing Left - Power, terror and profit in Chinese iconography (Professorial Lecture given at the University of Sussex on 26 November 1996)
Jutta Bewig (ed.), Bauernmalerei aus Huxian [Peasant Paintings from Huxian] (Frankfurt/M: Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Chinesische Freundschaft, 1979)
Uradyn E. Bulag, "Models and Moralities: The Parable of the Two 'Heroic Little Sisters of the Grassland'", The China Journal, no. 42 (July 1999), pp. 21-41
Arnold Chang, Painting in the People's Republic of China: The Politics of Style (Boulder COL: Westview Press, 1980)
La Chine à l'affiche (Paris 1997)
The Chinese Woodcutters' Association, Woodcuts of Wartime China, 1937-1945 (Shanghai: Kaiming Book Company, 1946)
Melissa Chiu and Zheng Shengtian, Art and China's Cultural Revolution (New York: Asia Society, Yale University Press, 2008)
Chou Kai, "Art Goes to the Villages" 
, Peking Review, 1966 n. 5 January 28), 1966, pp. 8-11
Chun Wen, "Paintings by Workers, Peasants and Soldiers" , Peking Review, 1975 n. 1 (January 3), pp. 21-23
John Clark (ed.), Modernity in Asian Art (Broadway: Wild Peony 1993)
Joan Lebold Cohen, The New Chinese Painting 1949-1986 (New York N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987)
Ralph C. Croizier, "Review Article: Chinese Art in the Chiang Ch'ing Era," Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2 (Feb. 1979), pp. 303-311
Ralph C. Croizier, "The Thorny Flowers of 1979: Political Cartoons and Liberalization in China," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (ed.), China From Mao to Deng; The Politics and Economics of Socialist Development (Armonk N.Y./London: M.E. Sharpe Inc/Zed Press, 1983), pp. 29-38
Ralph C. Croizier, Art and Revolution in Modern China; The Lingnan (Cantonese) School of Painting, 1906-1951 (Berkeley CAL etc.: University of California Press, 1988)
Lincoln Cushing and Ann Tompkins, Chinese Posters - Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2007)
Kirk A. Denton, "Visual Memory and the Construction of a Revolutionary Past: Paintings from the Museum of the Chinese Revolution", Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, vol. 12, no. 2 (Fall 2000), pp. 203-235
Hans van Dijk, "Painting in China after the Cultural Revolution: Style Developments and Theoretical Debates. Part I: 1979-1985," China Information, vol. 6, No. 3 (Winter 1991-1992), pp. 25-43
Hans van Dijk, "Painting in China after the Cultural Revolution: Style Developments and Theoretical Debates. Part II: 1985-1991," China Information, vol. 6, No. 4 (Spring 1992), pp. 1-18
Wolfram Eberhard, A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols - Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought (London/New York N.Y.: Routledge, 1988)
Harriet Evans, "Images of Chinese Women in the 1990s", Britain-China No. 53 (1993.3), pp. 6-9
Harriet Evans and Stephanie Donald (eds), Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China - Posters of the Cultural Revolution (Lanham, etc.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999)
Gladys Fabre, Zhang Xidan and Bruno Fornari, Roar China! Lu Xun, Masereel en de grafische avant-garde in China, 1919-1949 / Lu Xun, Masereel et l'avant-garde graphique en Chine, 1919-1949 (Gent: Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 2009)
Fine Arts Collection Section of the Cultural Group Under the State Council of the People's Republic of China (eds.), Peasant Paintings from Huhsien County (Peking: People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 1976)
James A. Flath, The Cult of Happiness - Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004)
Stewart E. Fraser (ed.), 100 Great Chinese Posters: Recent Examples of "the People's Art" from the People's Republic of China (New York N.Y.: Images Graphiques, Inc., 1977)
Maria Galikowski, Arts and Politics in China, 1949-1984 (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1998)
Guy Gallice and Claude Hudelot, Le Mao (Rodez 2009)
Jerg Haas, et al., Holzschnitt im neuen China - Zeitgenössige Graphik aus der Volksrepublik China [Woodcuts in new China - Contemporary Graphics from the People's Republic of China] (Berlin: Gesellschaft für Verständigung und Freundschaft mit China e.V., 1977)
Marien van der Heijden, Stefan R. Landsberger, Kuiyi Shen, Chinese Posters. The IISH-Landsberger Collections (München: Prestel, 2009)
Katie Hill (ed.), The Political Body. Posters from the People's Republic of China in the 1960s and 1970s (Westminster 2004)
David L. Holm, Art and Ideology in Revolutionary China (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991)
Hung Chang-tai, "The Cult of the Red Martyr: Politics of Commemoration in China", Journal of Contemporary History, v. 43, n. 2 (2008), pp. 279-304
Hung Chang-tai, "Repainting China: New Year Prints (Nianhua) and Peasant Resistance in the Early Years of the People's Republic", Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Oct. 2000), pp. 770-810
Hung Chang-tai, "Two Images of Socialism: Woodcuts in Chinese Communist Politics", Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1997 n 39, pp 34-60
Hung Chang-tai, War and Popular Culture - Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945 (Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1994)
E. Stuart Kirby (ed.), Contemporary China 1955 (London: Oxford University Press, 1956)
Jason Kuo (ed.), Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s (Washington: New Academia Publishing, 2007)
Ellen Johnston Laing, "Chinese Peasant Painting, 1958-1976: Amateur and Professional", Art International vol. 27 nr. 1, pp.1-12
Ellen Johnston Laing, The Winking Owl: Art in the People's Republic of China (Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1988)
Ellen Johnston Laing, Selling Happiness - Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004)
Stefan R. Landsberger, 'Art and China's Revolution Edited by Melissa Chiu and Shengtian Zheng, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008', The China Quarterly, v. 200 (December 2009), pp 1107-1109. doi:10.1017/S0305741009990762
Stefan R. Landsberger, Chinese Propaganda Posters - From Revolution to Modernization (Amsterdam, Singapore/Armonk: The Pepin Press/M.E. Sharpe 1995, 1998/1996)
Stefan R. Landsberger, "Confessions of a poster collector", China Information (Anniversary Supplement, Summer 1994) pp. 37-41
Stefan R. Landsberger, "The Deification of Mao: Religious Imagery and Practices during the Cultural Revolution and Beyond", in Woei Lien Chong (ed.), China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution - Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives (Lanham MD, etc.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002)
Stefan R. Landsberger, "Learning by What Example? Educational Propaganda in Twenty-first-Century China", Critical Asian Studies, vol. 33, No. 4 (December 2001), pp. 541-571
Stefan R. Landsberger, "'Life as it ought to be': propaganda art of the PRC", IIAS Newsletter n. 48, Summer 2008, pp. 26-27
Stefan R. Landsberger, Paint it Red - Fifty years of Chinese Propaganda Posters (Groningen: Intermed Publishers, 1998)
Stefan R. Landsberger, "Propaganda Posters in the Reform Era: Promoting Patriotism or Providing Public Information?" in Frank Columbus (ed.), Asian Economic and Political Issues, vol. 10 (New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2004)
Stefan R. Landsberger, "The State versus Mammon - State propaganda meets its match", Affiche, No. 12 (Winter 1994-1995), pp. 42-55
Stefan R. Landsberger, "Encountering the European and Western Other in Chinese Propaganda Posters", in Michael Wintle (ed.), Imagining Europe. Europe and European Civilisation as Seen from its Margins and by the Rest of the World, in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Bruxelles etc.: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 147-176
Stefan R. Landsberger and Marien van der Heijden, Chinese Propaganda Posters (Amsterdam 2009)
Li Yu, Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Chinese Propaganda Posters 1957-1983
Li Zhensheng, Red-Color News Soldier - A Chinese Photographer's Odyssey through the Cultural Revolution (London, etc.: Phaidon Press, 2003)
Lu Hung, "Some Outstanding Peasant Paintings", Chinese Literature 1977 nr. 3 pp. 98-102
Lu Xing, Rethoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution - The Impact on Chinese Thought, Culture and Communication (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004)
Mao and the Arts of New China. Including the Collection of Susan and Peter Wain (London: Bloomsbury Auctions, 2009)
Lev Menshikov (ed.), Chinese Popular Prints (Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1988)
Scott Minick and Jiao Ping, Chinese Graphic Design in the Twentieth Century (London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1990)
Rana Mitter, A Bitter Revolution - China's Struggle with the Modern World (Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press, 2004)
Andrew J. Nathan and Robert S. Ross, The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress - China's Search for Security (New York etc.: W.W. Norton & Company 1997)
Ng Chun Bong et al., Chinese Woman and Modernity: Calendar Posters of the 1910s-1930s (Hong Kong: Joint Publishing (H.K.) Co., 1996)
Enzo Nizza (ed.), Il popolo Cinese. 103 manifesti dalla Rivoluzione culurale a oggi (Milano 1973)
Lynn Pan, Shanghai Style. Art and Design Between the Wars (Hong Kong: Joint Publishing co, 2008)
Peasant Paintings from Hu County, Shensi Province, China (London: Arts Council, 1976)
Peasant Paintings from Huhsien County (Beijing 1976)
The People's Progress. Twentieth Century Chinese Woodcuts (Sydney: Art Gallery of NSW, 1996)
People's Publishing House of Shantung (eds.), New Year Pictures of Weifang, Shantung (Jinan: People's Publishing House of Shantung, 1978)
Patricia Powell and Shitao Huo, Mao's Graphic Voice. Pictorial Posters from the Cultural Revolution (Wisconsin 1996)
Precious Memories Stored. Ha Qiongwen Picture-poster Show (Xuhui 2005)
Frank Rainer Scheck, Chinesische Malerei seit der Kulturrevolution: Eine Dokumentation [Chinese Paintings since the Cultural Revolution: A Documentary] (Köln: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1975)
Andreas Seifert, Bildgeschichten für Chinas Massen: Comic und Comicproduktion im 20. Jahrhundert (Köln etc.: Böhlau, 2008)
Shen Kuiyi, "Publishing Posters Before the Cultural Revolution", Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, vol. 12, No. 2 (Fall 2000), pp. 177-202
Jerome Silbergeld, with Gong Jisui, Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Socialist State and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng (Seattle, London: University of Washington Press, 1993)
Michael Sullivan, "Art in Today's China: Social Ethics as an Esthetic", Art News September 1974, pp. 55-57
Michael Sullivan, Modern Chinese Artists - A Biographical Dictionary (Berkeley, etc: University of California Press, 2006)
Xiaobing Tang, Origins of the Chinese Avant-garde. The Modern Woodcut Movement (Berkeley, London: University of California Press, 2008)
Shelagh Vainker and Weimin He, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007)
Minna Valjakka, 'Inciting Mental Terror as Effective Governmental Control: Chinese Propaganda Posters During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)', in: Matti Hyvärinen and Lisa Muszynski (eds.), Terror and the Arts. Artistic, Literary, and Political Interpretations of Violence from Dostoyevsky to Abu Ghraib (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) pp. 165-184
Vintage Chinese Posters (London: Bloomsbury Auctions, 2006)
Iris Wachs and Chang Tsong-zung, Half a Century of Chinese Woodblock Prints (1999)
Iris Wachs and Haim Finkelstein, Poetry, Painting and Politics. Chinese Urban Woodblock Printing Studios in an Age of Revolution 1949-2000 (Beer-Sheva 2003)
Helen Wang, Chairman Mao Badges: Symbols and Slogans of the Cultural Revolution (London: British Museum, 2008)
Wang Shucun (ed.), Ancient Chinese Woodblock New Year Prints (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1985)
C.A.S. Williams, Outlines of Chinese Symbolism & Art Motives (New York N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., 1976)
Xin-An Lu, Dazhai: Imagistic Rhetoric as a Cultural Instrument
Yan Jiaqi and Gao Gao (translated & edited by D.W.Y. Kwok), Turbulent Decade - A History of the Cultural Revolution (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996)
Beijingshi jiaoyuju geming lingdao xiaozu zhongxue jiaocai bianxiezu [Editorial writing small group for educational secondary school materials under the revolutionary leading small group of the Beijing municipal education office] (ed.), Beijingshi zhongxue geming wenyike meishu jiaoxue cankao ziliao [Educational reference materials for teaching fine arts in revolutionary art classes in Beijing municipal secondary schools] (Beijing: Xinhua shudian, 1970)
Chen Lusheng, Xin Zhongguo meishu tushi - 1949-1966 [The Art History of the People's Republic of China - 1949-1966] (Beijing: Zhongguo qingnian chubanshe, 2000)
Chen Tongheng, Zenyang xue manhua [How to study cartoons] (Shanghai: Silian chubanshe, 1954)
Dayuejin tuhua cankao ziliao (Reference Materials for Great Leap Forward Pictures) (Tianjin: Tianjin meishu chubanshe, 1958)
Disijie quanguo nianhua zhan huojiang zuopinxuan [Winning Entries from the Fourth National Chinese New Year Pictures Competition] (Beijing: Renmin meishu chubanshe, 1990)
Gao Xin and He Pin, Gaogan dang'an: Zhonggong quangui guanxi shidian [Dossiers of high cadres: A factual dictionary of the relations of influential officials of the Chinese Communist Party] (Taipei: Xin Xinwen Zhoukan, 1993)
Geming da pipan baotou xuanji [A selection of revolutionary great criticism mastheads] (Hangzhou: Zhejiang renmin meishu chubanshe, 1970)
Guowuyuan wenhuazu meishu zuopin zhengji xiaozu (eds.), Jinian Mao zhuxi 'Zai Yan'an wenyi zuotanhuishangde jianghua' fabiao sanshi zhounian meishu zuopinxuan [Selection of Fine Arts' Works to commemorate the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Publication of Chairman Mao's 'Talks at the Yan'an Conference on Literature and Art'] (Beijing: Renmin meishu chubanshe, 1973)
Guowuyuan wenhuazu meishu zuopin zhengji xiaozu (eds.), Shanghai, Yangquan, Lüda gongrenhua zhanlan zuopin xuanji [Selection of Works from the Exhibition of Workers' Art from Shanghai, Yangquan and Lüda] (Beijing: Renmin meishu chubanshe, 1975)
Ha Qiongwen (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2009)
Ha Qiongwende lao xuanchuan hua [Ha Qiongwen's old propaganda paintings] (Shanghai: Shanghai huabao chubanshe, 2001)
Hebei renmin chubanshe (eds), Nongcun meishu shouce [Handbook for art in rural villages] (Shijiazhuang: Hebei renmin chubanshe, 1975)
Huashuo 'Sange daibiao' bianweihui (ed.), Huashuo 'Sange daibiao' [The 'Three Represents' in pictures] (Nanchang: Jiangxi jiaoyu chubanshe, 2002)
Jin Meisheng zuopin xuanji (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 1985)
Lü Xiaobo, Bainian chuanmei bianqian [A hundred years of changes in the media] (Nanjing: Jiangsu meishu chubanshe, 2002)
Nongye shengchan gongju cankao ziliao [Reference materials for agricultural production tools] (Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 1965)
Renmin meishu chubanshe bianjishi (eds.), Ba pi Lin pi Kong de douzheng jinxing daodi meishu zuopinxuan [Selection of fine arts' works to carry forward to the end the struggle to criticize Lin (Piao) and Kong (Confucius)] (Beijing: Renmin meishu chubanshe, 1974)
Renmin meishu chubanshe (eds.), Gaoju Mao zhuxide weida qizhi shengli qianjin meishu zuopinxuan [Selection of Fine Arts' Works to Promote the Victory of Holding aloft the Great Banner of Chairman Mao] (Beijing: Renmin meishu chubanshe, 1977)
Renmin meishu chubanshe (eds.), Gongnongbing xingxiang xuan [Selection of images of workers, peasants and soldiers], vols. 2 and 3 (Tianjin: Tianjin renmin meishu chubanshe, 1973 [vol. 2], 1975 [vol. 3])
Renmin meishu chubanshe (eds.), Qingzhu Zhongguo renmin jiefangjun jianjun wushi zhounian meishu zuopinxuan [Selection of Fine Arts' Works to Celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army] (Beijing: Renmin meishu chubanshe, 1978)
Shandong minjian nianhua [Popular New Year Prints from Shandong] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 1979)
Shanghai renmin chubanshe (eds.), Renwuhua cankao ziliao [Reference materials for drawings of human beings] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 1973)
Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (eds), Nongye shengchan gongju cankao ziliao (Reference Materials for Agricultural Production Tools) (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 1965)
Shen Qian and Zhong Shi, Shiyong meishu zi hua [Applied calligraphy and images] (Shanghai: Tongren shushi, 1951)
Shen Tongheng, Zenyang xue manhua [How to study caricature] (Shanghai: Silian chubanshe, 1955)
Song Jiang, Ma An, Li Ming (eds.), Zhongguo hua yu [Language in Chinese Art] (Beijing: Zhongguo minzu sheying yishu chubanshe, 1998)
Tao Yongbai (ed.), Zhongguo youhua 1700-1985 [Oil Painting in China] (Nanjing: Jiangsu meishu chubanshe, 1993)
Tian Si [Stefan Landsberger] and Ou Ning, "Zhongguo xuanchuanhua: cong geming dao xiandaihua" [Chinese propaganda posters: from revolution to reform], Zhoumo huabao biece, no. 21 (2003), pp. 22-27
Tianjin meishu zuopinxuan [Selection of Fine Arts' Works from Tianjin] (Tianjin: Tianjin renmin meishu chubanshe, 1979)
Tianjin renmin meishu chubanshe (eds.), Gongnongbing xingxiang xuan [Selection of images of workers, peasants and soldiers], vols. 2 and 3 (Tianjin: Tianjin renmin meishu chubanshe, 1973 [vol. 2], 1975 [vol. 3])
Wang Mingxian et al., Xin Zhongguo meishu tushi - 1966-1976 [The Art History of the People's Republic of China - 1966-1976] (Beijing: Zhongguo qingnian chubanshe, 2000)
Xia Weizhong, Bainian shangye bianqian [A hundred years of changes in commerce] (Nanjing: Jiangsu meishu chubanshe, 2000)
Xiao Wule, Jiqing shishang - 70 niandai Zhongguo rende yishu yu shenghuo [The fashion of fervor - art and life of the Chinese of the 1970s] (Jinan: Shandong huabao chubanshe, 2002)
Xuanchuanhua cankao ziliao huibian [Collection of Reference Materials for Propaganda Pictures] (Beijing: Renmin meishu chubanshe, 1953)
Yang Dekang and Lan Chen, Shiyong meishuzi [Applied art lettering] (Beijing: Chaohua meishu chubanshe, 1966)
Yang Kelin (ed.), Wenhua dageming bowuguan [Museum of the Cultural Revolution] (Hong Kong: Dongfang chubanshe youxian gongsi, Tiandi tushu youxian gongsi, 1995)
Yangliuqing nianhuaxuan [Selection of New Year Prints from Yangliuqing] (Tianjin: Tianjin renmin meishu chubanshe, 1979)
Yangquanshi renmin wenhuaguan (eds.), Yangquan gongren huaxuan [Selection of Workers' Art from Yangquan] (Beijing: Renmin meishu chubanshe, 1975)
Yi Bin (ed.), Lao Shanghai guanggao [Advertisement of the Old Time Of Shanghai] (Shanghai: Shanghai huabao chubanshe, 1995)
Zhang Yanfeng, "Lao yuefenpai guanggaohua" [Old Calendar Advertisements Posters], Hansheng zazhi [Echo Magazine], Nos 61 and 62 (Taipei, January-February 1994)
Zhongguo geming bowuguan (ed.), Zhongguo geming bowuguan canhua ji [The Album of Paintings Collected by the Museum of Chinese Revolution ] (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1991)
Zhongguo meishuguan (ed.), Zhongguo meishu nianjian 1949-1989 [Yearbook of Chinese Art, 1949-1989] (Guilin: Guangxi meishu chubanshe, 1993)
Zou Yuejin, Xin Zhongguo meishu shi 1949-2000 [A History of Chinese Fine Arts 1949-2000] (Changsha: Hunan meishu chubanshe, 2002)
