{"id":4227,"date":"2016-03-27T03:55:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T10:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2016-06-19T12:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T19:21:38","slug":"posters-from-the-revolution-rescued-and-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/27\/posters-from-the-revolution-rescued-and-amazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Posters From the Revolution, Rescued and Amazing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo from Trip Advisor comments of SakijR from Finland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This poster, portraying\u00a0China’s children energetically joining the assault against the U.S., is one of the remarkable Mao-era treasures\u00a0hiding in this obscure Shanghai apartment complex, home to the Shanghai Poster Art Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mao’s Cultural Revolution and the years before and after produced an enormous range of political art, clearly targeted\u00a0with great care to varied segments of the population. \u00a0 As the Cultural Revolution’s image (and to some degree Mao’s) tarnished though, the new government ordered the posters – and their energetic messages – to be destroyed.<\/p>\n

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Museum founder Yang Pei Ming. Photo by Mao Dou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thanks to this man, it didn’t all make it to the garbage bin. \u00a0As the\u00a0website says: A labor of love, the museum was founded by Yang Pei Ming, who grew concerned about both the poster art and the unusual history\u00a0<and><\/em>\u00a0started to collect posters ever since 1995 when all the government organizations deleted the propaganda materials due to the political reasons.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a thrilling, surprisingly moving visit;\u00a0passing through\u00a0so many years of cynically generated passion and ideas in just a couple of rooms added impact to every poster and its story. \u00a0Here are a few; there’s not much more to say. \u00a0Let the pictures tell the rest.
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  This poster, portraying\u00a0China’s children energetically joining the assault against the U.S., is one of the remarkable Mao-era treasures\u00a0hiding in this obscure Shanghai apartment complex, home to the Shanghai Poster Art Centre. Mao’s Cultural Revolution and the years before and after produced an enormous range of political art, clearly targeted\u00a0with great care to varied segments … Continue reading Posters From the Revolution, Rescued and Amazing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2877,2,4,6,27,9,78,1],"tags":[3592,2812,3757,3884,3787,3356,858,3788,3784,3785,3786,3789],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microblogmonday-2","category-2","category-baby-boom","category-culture","category-current-affairs","category-politics","category-travel","category-uncategorized","tag-microblog","tag-microblogmonday","tag-china","tag-culture-book","tag-mao","tag-mao-tse-tung","tag-political-art","tag-political-propaganda","tag-propaganda","tag-shanghai","tag-shanghai-poster-art-centre","tag-socialist-realism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-16b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4249,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions\/4249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}