I’ve recently published a paper in Visual Resources (36:2), which rounds up the cataloguing project I undertook at the British Library back in 2015. Abstract below: In this paper, I discuss a project designed to increase knowledge of and make more accessible a collection of post-1949 Chinese propaganda posters at the British Library, for the…
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Two recent guest blogs – Post-1949 Chinese revolutionary art and design
I have recently published* a pair of guest blogposts on the subject of post-1949 Chinese revolutionary art and design. The first, ‘Knock Down the Gang of Four!’: caricatures in the British Library’s collection of post-1949 Chinese posters, is available from the Language of Authoritarian Regimes website. The second, ‘Do the Chinese always smile?’ Exhibiting the…
Revolutionary nian hua at the British Library: new paper
A short article I’ve written about the British Library’s collection of revolutionary nian hua (‘New Years prints’) has recently been published – in Chinese translation – in the latest issue of the Nianhua Journal of the Feng Jicai Institute (p. 27). The paper is based on a blog post I wrote during my BICC Postdoctoral…
BICC Cultural Engagement Partnership: Maoist posters at the British Library
As promised, here are the links to the first couple of blog posts I will be writing during the course of my BICC-funded post doc at the British Library. The first was published on the BICC blog a couple of weeks ago. The second has been up on the British Library’s Asia and Africa blog since last…