Designer: Li Lang (李浪)
1958, August
Study the Soviet Union, to advance to the world level of science
Xuexi Sulian, xiang shijie kexue shuizhun jinjun (学习苏联, 向世界科学水准进军)
Publisher: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社)
Size: 53x76 cm.
Call number: BG E15/427 (Landsberger collection)

The airplane pictured is a typical 1950s technological fantasy. It seems to be meant as a passenger plane, circling the earth outside of the atmosphere. The space race between the West and the East is in full swing in the late 1950s, with the East (the Soviet Union) in the lead. China is just starting its own satellite projects.