WWII & Making of Modern Asia/Pacific: China

Avina, Avital Zuk. “Revolution in Pain(t): A Semiotic Reading of Chinese Cultural Revolution Propaganda Posters and Female Motivated Violence (1966-1968).” The University of Edinburgh, 2020. doi:10.7488/era/364.

Yu, Youn Ju. “Revolutionary Voices: Cultural Revolution Posters from the Crane House.” ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2008.

Zhao, Xuan. “Successful Posters of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China.” ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017.

People's Republic of China, 1949. In Ginsberg, Mary, ed. Communist Posters. London, UK: Reaktion Books, 2017.

Landsberger, Stefan. Contextualising (Propaganda) Posters. In Henriot, Christian, and Wen-Hsin Yeh. Visualising China, 1845-1965 Moving and Still Images in Historical Narratives. Leiden ; Brill, 2013.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Hemelryk Donald, Stephanie. “Red Aesthetics, Intermediality and the Use of Posters in Chinese Cinema after 1949.” Asian Studies Review 38, no. 4 (2014): 658–75. doi:10.1080/10357823.2014.955835.

Hulme, Alison. “Projecting the Good Life at Home and Abroad: Lineages of the Chinese National Image from 1949 to the Present.” New Global Studies 8, no. 3 (2014): 307–29. doi:10.1515/ngs-2014-0032.

Lago, Francesca Dal. “Activating Images: The Ideological Use of Metapictures and Visualized Metatexts in the Iconography of the Cultural Revolution.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 21, no. 2 (2009): 167–97.

Powell, P, and J Wong. “Propaganda Posters from the Chinese Cultural Revolution.” The Historian (Kingston) 59, no. 4 (1997): 776–93.

Quan, Hong. “The Representation and/or Repression of Chinese Women: From a Socialist Aesthetics to Commodity Fetish.” Neohelicon (Budapest) 46, no. 2 (2019): 717–37. doi:10.1007/s11059-019-00487-0.

Shen, Kuiyi. “Publishing Posters Before the Cultural Revolution.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 12, no. 2 (2000): 177–202.

Journal Articles

Apolloni, Rodrigo Wolff, and Chang Yuan Chiang. “Archaic, magical and religious symbols in a Chinese cultural revolution poster.” Revista de estudos da religião 11, no. 2 (2011): 195–220.

Mittler, Barbara. “Popular Propaganda? Art and Culture in Revolutionary China.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 152, no. 4 (2008): 466–89.

Pan, Yaochang. “The Posters of the Mao Era: A Perspective of Art and Society.” Artibus et Historiae 35, no. 69 (2014): 289–304.