Designer: A Zhi (阿志)
1960, September
Chairman Mao loves children
Mao zhuxi ai ertong (毛主席爱儿童)
Publisher: Liaoning renmin chubanshe (辽宁人民出版社)
Size: 39x54 cm.
Call number: BG D29/715 (IISH collection)

The first of a series of five posters, telling a story of Chairman Mao visit to a peasants’ village. Mao is welcomed enthusiastically, a woman with an ill child stays home but is encouraged by another child to go and see Mao. When she does, Mao expresses his concern and sends mother and child to a hospital in his personal car. The child recovers and tells the story of his salvation to the people of the village.