Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing figures, head bowed like a willing ox I serve the children

横眉冷对千夫指, 俯首甘为孺子牛
Heng mei leng dui qianfu zhi, fushu gan wei ruziniu
Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing figures...
ca. 1972
Shanghai renmin chubanshe (上海人民出版社)
77.5x53.5 cm.
BG E32/145

Export version of a poster published in 1971 with the title 'Carry on and develop the revolutionary spirit of Lu Xun' (继承和发扬鲁迅的革命精神). 
The title of this version is from Lu Xun's poem Self-mockery (自嘲), written in 1932 and quoted by Mao in his Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art, 1942.

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