Propaganda Hard to Miss; Propagandists Hard to Find
At The New York Times, Javier C. Hernández and photographer Gilles Sabrié present a guided tour of...
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LatestDrawing the News: World Press Freedom Day
To mark both International Labor Day on May 1 and World Press Freedom Day on May 3, Rebel Pepper...
Badiucao (巴丢草): Little Red App
As part of a concerted effort to promote his image to the social media generation, President Xi...
North Korean Propaganda Artists Paint a Rosy China
The Guardian reports on “Beautiful Future,” an exhibition of designs by longtime...
Old Dreams for a New China
For the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson posts photos and an essay about the propaganda...
The Fight for the History of China’s Great Famine
The Guardian’s Tania Branigan interviews former Xinhua journalist Yang Jisheng, author of Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine. The book, researched in secret and still unpublished in mainland China, has nevertheless been...
You Can’t Have a Party Without Music: A Red Song Primer
“Red Songs”, nationalist anthems of the Maoist era, have exploded across China from Chongqing where their resurgence began. China Real Time Report provides a Red Songs 101 for the arguably fortunate uninitiated. The...
Audio Slideshow: Art and Politics in China
An audio slideshow by the BBC takes us through the history of art in contemporary China, from the revolutionary posters of the 1950s and 60s to the 798 art district in Beijing: As China marks the 60th anniversary of Communist...
The Moral Dilemma of Turning Maoist Propaganda into Camp Décor
In the International Herald Tribune, Richard Bernstein writes about the exhibit of revolutionary art now on at the Asia Society, and the paradoxes of wealthy New Yorkers collecting propaganda posters from the Mao era: The...
The Chairman Smiles: Posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China
The International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam has posted an online exhibit of propaganda posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China. The China posters are
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