01.17.09
Cultural Revolution Propaganda Part 3
Here is the next batch of propaganda posters. I’m going to try to get the remainder up by the end of next week.
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| The regime will come out of the gun |
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| The Selected Works of Mao Zedong |
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| Take over the fight, fight till the end. note: “fight” in this sense is through words. |
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| Grasp the Revolution, Promote Production, Promote Work, Promote Combat Readiness |
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| The Selected Works of Mao Zedong Be Ready for Combat, the Enemy Must be Annihilated |
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| DEFEND STALINGRAD Injuries are man’s medal of honor Soviet Union World War II memorial poster note: I am assuming the Chinese is a translation of the Russian. If anybody can confirm (or deny) this, that would be great. |
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| Proletariat, Unite! Workers, Peasants, Soldiers, Unite! We must Liberate Taiwan |
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| Far and Wide, the Prospects are Endless |
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| Great teacher, Great commander, Great leader, Great Helmsman, Long Live Chairman Mao. Long Long Live (Chairman Mao), Long Long Live (Chairman Mao) |
James
said,
January 17, 2009 at 8:04 pm
These are fantastic. It’s amazing how much China has changed in such a short time.
Leslie Forman
said,
January 19, 2009 at 3:00 am
Thanks for posting these! I used the second to last one to illustrate an article about microfinance during Cultural Revolution on the Wokai Adventures blog. My colleague Hongqing suggested a different translation for this slogan, “Reach for Your Potential in the Great Country!”
Here’s the link: http://wokai.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/01/from-the-cultural-revolution-to-wokai-my-microfinance-journey-.html
I really enjoy reading your blog. Thank you for all the great photos and anecdotes.
Leslie
Lily Li
said,
January 20, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Hello, Ben
there is a funny thing about Chairman Mao that i heard about recently.
when Chairman Mao classified 5 harmful animals, sparrow was one of them. So Chairman Mao’s command is to kill all sparrows. The unique way to do it was they brought out all kinds of drums and gongs, and made as much noise as they can everywhere in China. Sparrows cannot stand noise for some reason, and then they need to fly to other places, but there are noises all over China, so they have no where to fly to………and it ended up to they were all too tired and died………
Ask a person who is over 60 years old in China, and he/she will tell you. The first time I heard about this, I was thinking maybe he was joking Chairman Mao, but I heard that again……..so i guess it is true…
Though Maozedong did something bad or even very stup1d, his achievement for Chinese cannot be denied……….when Chinese are talking about his bad things, there is nothing can be compared to his great contribution to China…………
Anyway, your blog wrote something i didnot know before…
Lily Li
Last Hermit
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January 31, 2009 at 10:05 am
This ‘抓’ means ‘focus on’. So ‘抓革命’ should be ‘Focus on the Revolution’.