Themes

Over 300 theme presentations, with posters and texts.


New Year Prints (and chubby babies)General
Visualizing the Future
New Year Prints (and chubby babies)
- Part 2, Part 3
1 October, National Day of the People’s Republic of China
National Minorities
Door Gods (门神)
Eating Bitterness (吃苦)
Shanghai, Poster City
What are people doing with our posters?


Second Sino-Japanese WarBefore the People’s Republic
Battle of Sanyuanli (1841)
Small Sword Society (1853-1855)
May Fourth Movement (1919)
The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party (1921)
The Beijing-Hankou Railway Strike (1923)
May Thirtieth Movement (1925)
The Long March (1934-1935)
The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
American Economic Aid (1948)


New Marriage LawGreat Leap ForwardCampaigns - 1949-1965
Early Campaigns (1949-1954)
Land Reform and Collectivization (1950-1953)
New Marriage Law (1950)
Early Industrialization (1950-1955)
Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries (1950-1952)
Elections for Workers’ and Peasants’ Councils (1950-1955)
Combat Illiteracy Campaigns (1950-1956)
Withdraw from the Sects movement (1951-1953)
Patriotic Health Campaign (1952)
First Five Year Plan (1953-1957)
- Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Outline for national agricultural construction for the years 1956-1967 (draft) (1956)
Double-Hundred Policy (1956-1957)
Eliminate the Four Pests (1958)
Eight-Point Charter of Agriculture (1958)
Great Leap Forward (1958-1961)
Eliminate Superstition (1965)


Cultural Revolution CampaignsMonsters and DemonsCampaigns - 1966-1976
Cultural Revolution Campaigns (1966-1976)
Monsters and Demons (1966-1967)
"New Socialist Things"
Revolutionary Networking (1966-1967)
Shanghai People’s Commune (1967)
Revolutionary Committees (1967)
Red Sea Movement (1967-1968)
May Seven Cadre Schools (1968)
Up to the mountains, down to the villages (1968)
After the Attack (1971)
People’s air defense common knowledge posters (1971)
Criticize Lin Biao and Confucius (1974)
Criticize Shuihu zhuan Campaign (1975)
Study Theory (1975)
Criticize Rightist Deviationism (1976)


Socialist Spiritual CivilizationThe "Amazing" SeriesCampaigns - 1977-2012
Four Basic Principles (1979)
People's Movement (1989)
Socialist Patriotic Education Campaign (1990)
Socialist Spiritual Civilization (1980-2000)
- Primary School Pupils’ Behavioral Standard (1987)
- Educational Series (1994)
- Patriotic Education Propaganda Poster Set (1994)
- Regulations for Primary School Pupils (1995)
- The "Amazing" Series (1996)
- Educational series (1996)
- Patriotic educational series (1996)
- Educational series (1997)
- "Four Loves" educational propaganda posters (1998)
- Regulations for pupils (2000)
Falun Gong (法轮功) (1999)
- Privately encourage healthy practices, eradicate evil cults (2001)
Fifth National Census (2000)
17th CCP Congress (2007)
The 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake
Beijing Olympics 2008
Shanghai Expo 2010
Political Reform
- Regulations for Letters and Visits (2005)
- Elections of delegates from urban and rural districts for the new session of the National People's Congress (2011)
Special Economic Zones


The Xi Jinping EraThe Xi Jinping Era (2012-present)
The Chinese Dream (中国梦) (2012 - )
The Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Dispute (2012 - )
70th Anniversary of the Victory over Japan Day (2015)
The Sixth Plenum of the 19th Central Committee of the CCP (2021)
Xi Jinping (习近平)
Peng Liyuan (彭丽媛)

 


The Mao CultMao Zedong (毛泽东)
The Mao Cult
Aluminum Mao
Mao Slogans
Chairman Mao goes to Anyuan
Chairman Mao swims across the Yangzi
Chairman Mao’s Mangoes
Mao in Silk
Mao and Hua: "With you in charge, I’m at ease"
After Mao
Mao Pop


Party and State LeadersBeloved comrade XiaopingZhou EnlaiParty and State Leaders
Chen Boda (陈伯达)
Chen Yi (陈毅)
Chen Yun (陈云)
Chiang Kai-shek (蒋介石)
Deng Xiaoping (邓小平)
- Beloved comrade Xiaoping
Deng Yingchao (邓颖超)
Guo Moruo (郭沫若)
He Long (贺龙)
Hu Jintao (胡锦涛)
Hu Yaobang (胡耀邦)
Hua Guofeng (华国锋)
- Mao and Hua: "With you in charge, I’m at ease"
- The Hua Guofeng cult
- Hua Guofeng in Dazhai
- Hua Guofeng at the parents’ meeting of No. 166 Middle School
- Hua Guofeng and earthquake relief
Jiang Zemin (江泽民)
Kang Sheng (康生)
Lin Biao (林彪)
Liu Shaoqi (刘少奇)
- Comrade Liu Shaoqi and the Anyuan miners
Peng Dehuai (彭德怀)
Peng Liyuan (彭丽媛)
Song Qingling (宋庆龄)
Sun Yat-sen (孫中山)
Tao Zhu (陶铸)
Xi Jinping (习近平)
Ye Jianying (叶剑英)
Zhao Ziyang (赵紫阳)
Zhou Enlai (周恩来)
Zhu De (朱德)


Study DazhaiLei FengLu XunWang JinxiZhang HaidiQiu San'e Models and Martyrs
An Ke (安珂)
An Yemin (安业民)
Norman Bethune (白求恩)
Cai Yongxiang (蔡永祥)
Cao Zhenxian (曹振贤)
Chen Daishan (陈岱山)
Chen Yonggui (陈永贵)
Daqing (大庆)
Dazhai (大寨)
- Study Dazhai (学大寨)
Dong Cunrui (董存瑞)
Fang Zhimin (方志敏)
Guo Mingyi (郭明义)
Guo Xingfu (郭兴福)
Huang Jiguang (黄继光)
Hu Yetao (胡业桃)
Iron Girl Qiu San'e (钢铁姑娘邱三娥)
Jiang Zhuying (蒋筑英)
Jiao Yulu (焦裕禄)
Jin Xunhua (金训华)
Lai Ning (赖宁)
Lan Jianye (蓝建业)
Lei Feng (雷锋)
- Part 2, Part 3
Li Wenzhong (李文忠)
Liu Bangxian (刘邦贤)
Liu Hulan (刘胡兰)
Liu Yingjun (刘英俊)
Lu Xun (鲁迅)
Luo Maisheng (罗迈生)
Luo Shengjiao (罗盛教)
Ma Junyou (马均有)
Men He (门合)
Ouyang Hai (欧阳海)
Pan Dongzi (潘冬子)
Qi Aiqun (祁爱群)
Qian Xuesen (钱学森)
Qiu Shaoyun (邱少云)
Red Flag Canal (红旗渠)
Steel Warrior Mai Xiande (钢铁战士麦贤得)
Su Ning (苏宁)
Three Young Braves (英雄三少年)
Wang Guofu (王国福)
Wang Jie (王杰)
Wang Jinxi (王进喜)
Xiang Xiuli (向秀丽)
Xiaojinzhuang (小靳庄)
Xie Chen (谢臣)
Xie Rongce (谢荣策)
Xu Hu (徐虎)
Yan Long (岩龙)
Yang Gensi (杨根思)
Yang Kaihui (杨开慧)
Yang Shuicai (杨水才)
Zhang Haidi (张海迪)
Zhang Gaoqian (张高谦)
Zhang Hua (张华)
Zhang Side (张思德)
Zhang Zhixin (张志新)
Zhao Guilan (赵桂兰)
Zhu Boru (朱伯儒)
Zuo Quan (左权)


Foreign imperialistsGang of FourVillains
Foreign imperialists
- Anti-American Boardgame
Monsters and Demons (1966-1967)
Gang of Four (四人帮)
Chiang Kai-shek (蒋介石)
Hu Feng (胡风)
Jiang Qing (江青)
- Madame Mao
Li Fanwu (李范五)
Li Jingquan (李井泉)
Lin Biao (林彪)
Liu Shaoqi (刘少奇)
Luo Ruiqing (罗瑞卿)
Tao Zhu (陶铸)
Wang Hongwen (王洪文)
Yao Wenyuan (姚文元)
Zhang Chunqiao (张春桥)
Zhang Wenhai (张文海)


Karl MarxIdeological Foundations - Marxism-Leninism
Karl Marx
V.I. Lenin
Mao Zedong Thought
Three Constantly Read Articles
Quotations from Chairman Mao
Selected Works of Mao Zedong Volume V
Deng Xiaoping Theory
Jiang Zemin Theory ("Three Represents")


Iron Women and Foxy LadiesIron Women and Foxy Ladies
Working Women
Tractor Girls
Women as Caregivers
Women Parachuters
Entrepreneurial Women
Protecting Women’s Rights
Entertaining Women
Woman Warriors
Women’s Militia
Barefoot Doctors


People’s Liberation ArmyWomen’s MilitiaMen over Weapons - Military MartyrsPeople’s Liberation Army
The PLA’s self-image in 1954
The PLA’s self-image in 1958
The PLA’s self-image in 1960
The PLA’s self-image in 1962
The PLA’s self-image in the 1980s
The PLA and Children
Nine Marshals
- Chen Yi (陈毅)
- He Long (贺龙)
- Peng Dehuai (彭德怀)
- Ye Jianying (叶剑英)
- Zhu De (朱德)
Woman Warriors
Women’s Militia
Women Parachuters
Men over Weapons - Military Martyrs
The PLA and the Cultural Revolution
People’s Liberation Army Navy
People’s Liberation Army Air Force
People’s Militia
Wargames
Military Industrial Complex


Soviet UnionForeign Friends
African Friends
- The TAZARA Railway
Albania
Indochina
National Liberation Movements
North Korea
North Vietnam
Soviet Union
Sino-Soviet Cooperation


Taiwan - ReunificationReunifications
Taiwan - Liberation
Taiwan - Reunification
- Eight Point Proposal (1995)
Hong Kong Handover
Macao

 


EnvironmentNature, environment
Environment
Recycling
Earthquakes
Hua Guofeng and earthquake relief
The 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake
Floods


ShaoshanPlaces of pilgrimage
Jinggangshan (井冈山), the area where Mao set up his first ‘peasant soviet’ (1927-1928)
Luding Bridge (泸定桥), crossed after heavy fighting during the Long March (1935)
Shaoshan (韶山), Mao’s birthplace
Xibaipo (西柏坡), the Communist headquarters in 1947-1948
Yan’an (延安), the Communist headquarters in 1935-1947
Zunyi (遵义), where an important Communist Party conference was held in 1935


Song & DanceArts, Culture
Song & Dance
Model Operas (Yangbanxi)
- Longjiang Song
- Shajiabang
- Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy
Huxian Peasant Painters
Great World Entertainment Center, Shanghai
"To Read Too Many Books is Harmful" - Books in Chinese Propaganda Posters


HygieneHealth, Social Welfare
Hygiene
Barefoot doctors
Population Policy
The Elderly
HIV/AIDS
SARS and avian flu
Patriotic Health Campaign (1952)


SportsSports
Sports of New China (1954)
Table tennis
Beijing Olympics 2008
- Beijing Olympics 2008 - The official posters
- Beijing Olympics 2008 - Security posters
- Beijing Olympics 2008 - Volunteer posters
- Beijing Paralympics 2008
Chairman Mao swims across the Yangzi


Chinese Space Program Other
The counter-revolutionary and restorationist crimes of Christianity before and after Liberation (mid 1960s)
Chinese Space Program
- Space Walk (2008)
Jiefang Truck
Legal Knowledge
Oba-Mao (2008-2009)
Tourism
The Yangzi River Bridge in Wuhan
The Yangzi River Bridge in Nanjing


Posters from Hong Kong and Taiwan
Taiwan - Republic of China "Chinese Culture"
I want real general elections #Umbrella Movement (2014)


Papercuts Papercuts
People of the world love Chairman Mao
I am a little commune member
Scenic spots in Kwangchow
Sacred revolutionary spots
New women
Paper-cuts of Yangchow (scenes in and around Shaoshan)
Women of New China
Silver Ball and Friendship (on table tennis)
Sacred Places of the Revolution
Chinese Paper-cuts
Buildings in Beijing


Photographs Photographs

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