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Engendering Modern China: Visual Representations Of The Prc, Jennifer Lee
Engendering Modern China: Visual Representations Of The Prc, Jennifer Lee
East Asian Languages and Cultures Department Honors Papers
Propaganda posters have been one of many forms of political media used by modern governments such as the United States, Russia, England, and China, to spread a message across a large area to a wide audience. The popularity of the use of propaganda posters has sparked an interest in the study of posters. China has a long and varied history of the use of posters and propaganda posters. Pre-1949 propaganda posters, especially during the revolutionary period, used woodblock prints with stark lines and deep bright colors. Woodblock prints often employed yellow and red backgrounds to accent the black figures in …