1960s – 1970s
In addition to producing propaganda posters to address the Chinese masses, during the mid-1960s, China began to export a large number of posters to the United States and Europe. Exported posters often had the Chinese captions translated into English, French, and German. Once the posters arrived in the United States and Europe, they were distributed by Maoist groups.
The most common themes of export posters were “class-struggle” and “liberation.” These types of export posters became very popular among the “New Left” and many left-wing students. As a result, Cultural Revolution export posters were a popular choice for students’ dorm room décor from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.
