In the thousands of propaganda posters produced in China between the birth of the People’s Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s, the beaming face of Chairman Mao Zedong watches over a surreal utopia.

Central Academy of Fine Arts Woodblock Print Combat Group, “Smash the Old World. Establish the New World” (People’s Republic of China, 1967) (courtesy University of Chicago Press) Cover of Communist ...

April 12, Saturday -- China's use of art to promote socialist ideology during the years 1949-1989 will be the subject of an all-day symposium sponsored by the UC Davis Department of Art History. The ...

Seth Doane is an award-winning CBS News correspondent based in Rome, Italy since 2016. Doane has covered terrorist attacks and breaking news across Europe, traveled with Pope Francis as part of his ...

A treasure-trove of Mao-era propaganda posters is housed in an unmarked basement museum in Shanghai. The Art Of Chinese Propaganda The Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center lies buried in an unmarked ...

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 here: The former ...

In September 1976, Shaomin Li got the art assignment of his life – it frightened the 19-year-old to death. China’s leader, Chairman Mao Zedong, had died a few days earlier. Li, a soldier in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A party member, employee of Tidal Star Group, uses his mobile phone to attend a weekly group study in an app Xuexi Qiangguo, which ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ever since Frank Dikötter’s first book, The Discourse of Race in Modern China (1992), this prolific star of ...