A museum in Shanghai displays a visual history of the country’s Communist past.
“Foreign visitors, they want to see something they’ve never seen,” Yang said.
Visitors can also take home a piece of that history from the museum gift shop, which sells copies of the posters in Yang’s collection. Several original Mao-era relics are also for sale: Little Red Books, the collections of quotations from Mao, and small buttons with the chairman’s face — both of which were widely distributed in China during the Cultural Revolution.
A popular theme in the museum posters depicts the strong anti-U.S. sentiment felt within the Communist Party before the two countries began normalizing relations in the 1970s. While the government no longer uses posters to control how people view the outside world, it keeps tight reins on media on the mainland, and carries negative narratives about the U.S. in its state-sponsored media.
Contrary to what the basement location suggests, the museum is not underground. Last year, Yang received a grant of 150,000 yuan (about $23,000) from the Chinese government for museum operations as a part of a program aimed at helping preserve history. During the Cultural Revolution, for example, many historical relics were destroyed.
China’s painful past has helped forge the country of today, Yang said. While to his knowledge no government officials have visited the museum, he’s confident they would not be opposed to what they find displayed there.
“So far, so good,” Yang said. “It’s party history.”
Yang said he knows many of the poster artists, many of whom don’t have copies of their own work. Posters frequently have no signature on them because they were meant to glorify the party, not the individual artist. People have offered Yang substantial sums — up to 250,000 yuan, or almost $39,000 — for pieces of his collection, but he refuses to sell. The collection is more extensive than can be displayed in the three basement rooms, and Yang says he occasionally switches out the posters on display.
“I think it’s [the] responsibility of my generation to keep all these things up for the future generation,” Yang said. “Eventually, this will be very important. This will be much more important than Chinese contemporary art. Contemporary is so many all over the world, but this is so rare.”
Teresa Welsh is a foreign affairs reporter at U.S. News & World Report. E-mail her at twelsh@usnews.com and follow her on Twitter.
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Chances are the source for these attacks is Russia.
According to this report, Syrians, using Russian robots, attacked and secured Siriatel Tower.
To those soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, stationed all over the world and working on this Christmas day, I am thinking of you and wish you all the best. I and millions like you have been thousands of miles from home on this day and know the feeling. Please, find joy in your ‘family’, commonly known as coworkers, surrounding you. These memories will last forever, so make them good ones. A gentle greeting, a simple “Merry Christmas” while locking eyes, this makes a huge difference in someone’s life.
Thanks to Putin, Chechnya in ‘Final Stage of Establishing Independence,’ Yashin Says
Out-of-control fires and deadly floods have hit the country nearly every year this decade
I was sent this link a few minutes ago, apparently Vice News doesn’t mind publishing this.
How about a goat video with cell phone footage? Daesh and young boys? Love in the trenches? “Sold into slavery by my Daesh master…”
The Changing Nature of Modern Warfare: Responding to Russian Information Warfare
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I find it interesting that none of the Russian news sites that I consider mainstream or state-sponsored have reported General Шушукин (Shushukin)’s death.
