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Texts on Chinese art, posters, prints etc. from Chinese publications in English

Chang Kuang-yu, Folk Festival Prints

Originally published in: China Reconstructs, June 1956, p. 15.

Great and Noble Image

Originally published in: Chinese Literature 1968, n. 9, pp. 41-47

Li Fenglan, How I Began to Paint the Countryside

Originally published in: China Reconstructs January 1974, pp. 21-23

Lin Mo-han, Raise Higher the Banner of Mao Tse-tung's Thought on Art and Literature

(Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1961)

Liu Chunhua, Singing the Praises of Our Great Leader Is Our Greatest Happiness

Originally published in: Chinese Literature 1968, n. 9, pp. 32-40

Mao Zedong, Culture and Art

Originally published in: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1966), pp. 299-303.

Mao Zedong, Five Documents on Literature and Art

(Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1967)

Peasant Paintings from Huhsien County - Foreword

Originally published in: Peasant Paintings from Huhsien County (Peking: People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 1976), s.p.

Peasant Painters of Huhsien

Originally published in: China Reconstructs January 1974, pp. 17-20

Teng Da Qian, Chinese New Year Pictures Today

Originally published in: Xu Chenshi (ed.), Disijie quanguo nianhuazhan huojiang zuopin xuan / Winning entries from the National Chinese New Year Pictures competition (Beijing: Renmin meishu chubanshe, 1990), s.p.

Wang Chi, Foreword

Originally published in: 'New Chinese Woodcuts' - Supplement to China Reconstructs, May 1959, pp. 3-4.

Articles by Stefan Landsberger

Stefan R. Landsberger, Confessions of a poster collector

Originally published in: 'Reminiscences and Ruminations' - China Information Anniversary Supplement, Summer 1994, pp. 37-41

Stefan R. Landsberger, 'Life as it ought to be': propaganda art of the PRC

Originally published in: IIAS Newsletter n. 48, Summer 2008, pp. 26-27

Stefan R. Landsberger, Paint it Red. Fifty years of Chinese Propaganda Posters

Originally published in: Stefan R. Landsberger, Paint it Red (Groningen: Intermed Publishers, 1998) pp. 23-37

Stefan R. Landsberger, Paint it Red. Vijftig jaar Chinese Propagandaposters

Originally published in: Stefan R. Landsberger, Paint it Red (Groningen: Intermed Publishers, 1998) pp. 6-21

Stefan Landsberger, "To Read Too Many Books is Harmful" (Mao Zedong). Books in Chinese Propaganda Posters: Objects of Veneration, Subjects of Destruction

Originally published in: "To Read Too Many Books is Harmful" (Leiden, 2004)


This selection of texts will be expanded in the coming years; we are greatful for suggestions of sources to include. We will mainly focus on texts that are not available elsewhere.


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