It would be an understatement to say that propaganda posters had an important role in how the Chinese Communist Party communicated with the public. Especially in the early years of the People’s Republic, when radios were still sparse and travel was hard, a few strategically placed posters in each town and village were maybe the [...]

During my travels in China I was always fascinated by Shanghai’s history and by how close to the surface of modern Shanghai much of its past still is. It’s still possible to find pre-revolutionary signage on some store fronts in the more quiet side streets and a lot of the building substance of the 1940s [...]