Mao Zedong's Posters

Published between 1951 and 1978, the posters collected in Mao Zedong's Posters chart the progress of the Great Helmsman's political development from his schooldays, through the formation of the Chinese Communist Party to the end of the Cultural Revolution and his death in 1976. Created in a uniquely Chinese-socialist style, these posters are a remarkable record of the evolution of modern China.Because of the vagaries of changes in ideological direction, many are now extremely rare, but together they form a fascinating pictorial history of a man who controlled the lives and fate of a quarter of the world's population.