We heard about the museum from our colleague in the tennis tournament. It’s a small collection in the basement of an apartment complex, but it was incredibly worth seeing. The museum was arranged chronologically, with descriptions in English about China’s influences starting in 1949, through Mao’s rule, and to the present day. It was crazy to see the way that countries changed and influenced the minds of the masses before Fox news and the mass media.
These are the posters that really stuck out for me:
1. Advertisements for The Great Leap Forward, -----
The poster showed a giant dragon boat with the caption, “Strive all efforts to advance the Big Leap Forward for the East and make the West worried.”
2. 1957-1962: One poster showed giant pink and tan fists with a background of smaller black fists all about the crash down on an old Chinese sailor with the caption, “Oppose US imperialism to invade and interfere the socialist camp.”
3. Then, later in 1963-1965, they took a different approach. “Support US black people’s justice struggle. Oppose racial discrimination.”
It wasn’t until 1976, with Nixon’s visit, that China stopped the anti-US propaganda. The other aspect that really blew my mind was the way Mao was portrayed in more recent times. Even though it was politically recognized that he was the Chinese equivalent of Hitler, decades after his death and the execution of the gang of 4, the modern posters showed, “Chairman Mao with Children.”
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