Post-Cultural Revolution Chinese Communist PRC Propaganda Booklet Set Glorifying Chairman Mao and the Chinese Communist Party, 1964 to 1983

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[Post-Revolution China][Communism] PRC Cultural Revolution propaganda set of 11 small-format lianhuanhua (graphic novel) booklets, demonstrating how revolutionary identity, patriotic duty, and class consciousness were disseminated throughout Maoist China through inexpensive illustrated print. Across the set, heroic soldiers, children, and working class martyrs appear as story protagonists and political models, with the intent of training readers to be loyal to the Chinese Communist Party and its ideals. The group shows a propaganda system at work: state-issued visual storytelling centering the importance of military sacrifice, anti-imperialist struggle, and Maoist political language.
China, 1964 to 1983. Set of 11 illustration PRC propaganda comic booklets, each approximately 4 x 5 inches and ranging from 66 to 190 pages. Titles include "Liu Hulan", "Little Eighth Route Army Soldier", "Heroic Little Sisters of the Grassland", "Sparkling Red Star", "Vagabond Child Joins the Army", "Huang Jiguang: A Model of Patriotism and Internationalism", "Qingsong Ridge", "Fire a Shot to Send Him Off", "Night Battle at Niujiao Ridge", "Reconnaissance Across the River", and "Guerrillas on the Plain". The covers emphasize recurring propaganda themes of youthful resolve, armed struggle, revolutionary mobility, child heroism, and working-class sacrifice. Photographed title pages confirm publication through provincial and Shanghai People’s presses, with Xinhua distribution visible on the copies shown.
The intent of these booklets was to spread patriotic ideals and political goodwill towards the CCP, with one page stating that “countless children of New China grow sturdily under the nurture of Mao Zedong Thought,” and presenting the characters as the “spirit of wholehearted devotion to the public good and to the revolution”, to be learned from. Another page declares, “We must closely follow Chairman Mao and carry the revolution through to the end,” while a Huang Jiguang page quotes Mao’s injunction that Chinese Communists “must combine patriotism with internationalism,” followed by the statement, “We must be fighters for both patriotism and internationalism.” Overall clean, complete, and in very good condition. The set preserves the language, imagery, and narrative methods through which PRC illustrated booklets trained political feeling in young and mass readers.

Item #23207

Price: $425.00