Mao Coke

Chairman Mao Coke Wood Block Print

Renowned Chinese artist Pop Zhao has created a truly iconic image of Chairman Mao wearing a shirt with a Coca Cola logo in Chinese. Accompanying the impressive print is a classic Chinese wrapping on the sides and top which read 'Be Baptized in Chairman Mao's Thought; Embrace the Capitalist Revolution's New Culture'.

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Location: Beijing, China

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Vintage Chairman Mao Wood Block Print

A most stunning and fantastic original block print poster of Chairman Mao! The craftsmanship by the artist who created the wood block is clearly evident with each of the hundreds of hand carved lines which truly bring Chairman Mao to life. Once framed, it will have a tremendous presence in any room.

Price: US $1800                                        more....

Location: Beijing, China

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This is a very early poster from 1951 of a young looking Chairman Mao. The image is pure iconic Mao Tse-Tung.

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Pre-Cultural Revolution Poster, 1960

This is an early poster and simply stunning with the graphics and colors shown, and extremely interesting when placed in historical context.

Price: US $1000                                      more....

Location: Beijing, China

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This is an amazing poster from the Cultural Revolution depicting a model worker in the new China, actually driving a tractor rather than using oxen to plow his field and holding aloft a copy of Chairman Mao's quotations. The other main images in the background are factories also of the new China.

Price: US $800                                          more....

Location: Beijing, China

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Vintage Cultural Revolution Poster

This poster of two soldiers from the People's Liberation Army has fantastic imagery and is a very unusual scene. It is titled, 'Armored Horses, Strong Cavalry in the Snow Storm'.

Price: US $500                                        more....

Location: Beijing, China

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Three Defenses Cultural Revolution Poster

This poster's imagery is stunning with the PLA soldier instructing the citizen militia to defend against nuclear, chemical and biological attack. The background shows one PLA soldier in a protective suit with gas mask, another in a suit with a first aid bag.

Price: US $275                                           more....

Location: Beijing, China  

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This is a very nice example of what was being produced during the Cultural Revolution. The title of the poster is 'Hero Huang Jiguang', who was elevated into 'Hero' status during the Cultural Revolution.

Price: US $200                                       more....  

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This set of posters is a fantastic example demonstrating Chinese fear (or paranoia) about being attacked. Entitle the "Aerial Defense Demonstration Wall Map", there are 21 large posers showing various defensive measures for civilian structures, industry, and military responses.

Price: US $700                                          more....

Location: Beijing, China

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This is a very nice example of what was being produced during the Cultural Revolution. This was perhaps even the inspiration for the contemporary CR woodblock print we are offering this month!

Price: US $200                                       more....  

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This is a very nice example of what was being produced during the Cultural Revolution. The title of the poster is 'Field Training Will Make Our Red Heart Follow Chairman Mao Forever'.

Price: US $150                                       more....  

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This cultural revolution poster presents the stunning image of the finishing touches being put to a ship, namely the bright gold star on a red background, and appropriately entitled "Sparkling Gold Star".

Price: US $100                                       more....  

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Chairman Mao - Hua Guofeng Poster

This is nice example of posters produced at the end of the Cultural Revolution. This particular attempt was to give Hua Guofeng legitimacy as Chairman Mao's appointed successor, following Mao's death in September 1976.

Price: US $120                                      more....

Location: Beijing, China

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The Cultural Revolution caused a drastic reduction in production of much needed items - this poster from 1972 tries to encourage workers to, "Produce More Chemical Fertilizer, Support Agriculture".

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This is an exceptional collection of posters from the White Haired Girl Opera that was popular during the Cultural Revolution.

Price: US $350                                       more....  

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Chairman Mao Essay Posters

This is a great set of 4 posters that reproduce four of the most famous essays of Chairman Mao: Combat Liberalism, In Memory of Norman Bethune, Serve The People, and The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains.  

Price: US $100                          more....

Location: Beijing, China

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The Chinese and the North Koreans share a kinship of communism reaching back more than 50 years. Therefore, it is only natural they would honor Kim Il Sung with his own poster.

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Anti-American Vietnam Propaganda Posters, 1965

This is a great set of posters produced by the PLA Pictorial unit to publicize what the Americans where doing in Vietnam and the heroic efforts of the Vietnamese to resist and unite the south and north of Vietnam.

Price: US $250                                      more....

Location: Beijing, China

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This set of posters is a very early example of Chinese support for their communist brothers in Vietnam in their fight against the United States.

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This Chinese poster is to support their communist brothers in Vietnam against American aggression. Titled, 'South Vietnamese People's Anti-US Patriotic Struggle Map', it shows statistics of among other things, American wounded and killed from 1962 to 1964, and protests during the same period against the Americans.

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This is an interesting set of 12 small posters from 1969 entitled, 'Never Forget Class Struggle' and the particular circumstance in Tianjin (a major city near Beijing).

Price: US $150                                       more....  

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Cultural Revolution Poster Set, 1969

This is very nice set of posters entitled, 'Support the Army, Cherish the People'.

Price: US $150                                      more....

Location: Beijing, China

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This is an amazing set of posters from the Cultural Revolution, produced by the Red Cross entitled, 'Air Defense Atomic, Chemical, and Biochemical Weapon Protection'.

Price: US $175                                       more....  

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Collection of 6 Cultural Revolution Pictures

These posters are interesting in that they show several scenes that the average Chinese citizen could never have imagined in the late 1970's - modern living quarters, efficient new factories, huge skyscrapers and modern medical facilities. Although not a complete set, these are a great reminder of the period.

Price: US $125                                      more....

Location: Beijing, China

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Collection of Small Cultural Revolution Posters

This collection of 8 small posters clearly conveys different aspects of life during the Cultural Revolution, all having devotion to Chairman Mao as a common theme.

Price: US $75                                           more....

Location: Beijing, China  

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Contemporary Cultural Revolutionary Woodblock Print

This is a very nice example of what is being produced by Chinese artists some 40 years after the height of the Cultural Revolution. This is a limited edition print.

Price: US $125                                       more....  

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Contemporary Cultural Revolutionary Woodblock Print

This is a very nice example of what is being produced by Chinese artists some 40 years after the height of the Cultural Revolution. This is a limited edition print.

Price: US $75                                       more....