Maoist China PRC Graphic Novel Propaganda Booklets Glorifying Chairman Mao and the Chinese Communist Party, 1963-84

Chinese Communist Propaganda

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[Post-Revolution China][Communism] PRC Cultural Revolution propaganda set of 10 lianhuanhua (graphic novel) booklets issued by the PRC propaganda press system between 1963 and 1984, centered on the culture revolution, model soldiers, anti-Japanese resistance, and child heroism. The covers name campaigns and exemplary figures through titles including Chicken Feather Letter, Surprise Attack, Tunnel Warfare, Honghu Red Guards, Good Eighth Company on Nanjing Road, Heroic Little Eighth Route, and Capture the Enemy Flag, while the interior pages state explicitly political morals like “The deepest source of the power of war lies among the masses,” followed by “Revolutionary war is a mass war.” Another photographed page frames sacrifice as Maoist instruction, declaring: “Thousands upon thousands of martyrs, for the interests of the people, laid down their lives heroically before us; let us hold high their banner and advance along the path marked by their blood!”
Illustrated PRC propaganda comic booklets. China: various provincial PRC presses, 1963-1984. Set of 10 illustrated booklets, each approximately 4 x 5 inches, ranging from about 60 to 200 pages. Titles include Chicken Feather Letter, Surprise Attack, Tunnel Warfare, Honghu Red Guards, Good Eighth Company on Nanjing Road, Heroic Little Eighth Route, and Capture the Enemy Flag. The photographed title and colophon pages place the group across multiple provincial publishing systems, including presses in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Shandong, Tianjin, Liaoning, and Shaanxi. The booklets were designed for mass distribution, using narrative episodes of soldier heroes and youth protagonists to glorify CCP ideology.
These booklets were a central tool through which the PRC circulated revolutionary history and Maoist political language to mass readers, especially younger readers, in cheap, durable, heavily illustrated form. The concentration here on anti-Japanese struggle, disciplined PLA units, local militia action, and heroic children gives the set a distinct documentary value as evidence of CCP socialist pedagogy across two decades. Clean, complete, and in very good condition. These 10 booklets preserve the language and narratives by which the Cultural Revolution propaganda system distributed CCP ideology to mass readership.

Item #23310

Price: $550.00