Daughter and mother during the 1959 May 1 Parade on Tian'anmen Square in Beijing (indicated by the 'huabiao' column top left), smiling towards the Chairman. A famous poster that would cause great problems for designer Ha Qiongwen during the Cultural Revolution: why did he not depict Mao? And why give prominence to such an elegant, bourgeois woman, instead of showing an ordinary worker?

Print no. 8085.2172, thirteenth impression (January 1964), print run 1.683.501 - 1.933.500. Our copy is signed by designer Ha.

A 1959 sketch for the poster, from the Ha Qiongwen/You Longgu Family archive.