The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
gh2u:
these are definitely Tibetans.
chineseposters.net:
Designers: Shao Hua (邵华); Shao Qinglin (绍青林)
1976, June
Herdspeople love to read books by Lenin and Marx
Mumin aidu Ma Lie shu (牧民爱读马列书)
Publisher: Renmin meishu chubanshe (人民美术出版社)
Size: 77x54 cm.
Call number: BG E15/199 (Landsberger collection)
State bookshop in the North of China, where Mongolians and other ‘minority peoples’ live. The young woman on the right carries rolls of posters in her bag.
Family members, relatives and friends of criminal secret agents, you must supervise and urge criminals to register and turn over a new leaf!
Feite fenzide jiashu qinpeng, ying ducu fanzuizhe, dengji zixin! (匪特分子的家属亲朋, 应督促犯罪者, 登记自新!)
Designer unknown (佚名)
ca. 1950
Size: 78x54 cm.
Call number: BG E15/512 (Landsberger collection)
(From chineseposters.net)
Suppress counter revolutionaries, safeguard good circumstances!
Zhenya fangeming, baozhang hao guangjing!
Designer: Wang Shoumu (王守木)
1951, August
Publisher: Renmin meishu chubanshe (人民美术出版社)
Size: 77x53 cm.
Call number: BG E16/351 (IISH collection)
(From chineseposters.net)
Uphold science, eradicate superstition
Designer: Cheng Guoying (程国英)
1999, August
Uphold science, eradicate superstition
Chongshang kexue, pochu mixin (崇尚科学，破除迷信)
Publisher: Sichuan meishu chubanshe (四川美术出版社)
Size: 100.5x70.5 cm.
Call number: BG E13/891 (Landsberger collection)
(HT chineseposters.net)
From ChinesePosters.net:
Designer: Revolutionary Committee of Tianjin Industrial Exhibition Hall (天津市工业展览馆革命委员会) 1971, February
Turn philosophy into a sharp weapon in the hands of the masses
Rang zhexue bian wei qunzhong shoulide jianrui wuqi (让哲学变为群众手里的尖锐武器)
Tianjin renmin meishu chubanshe (天津人民美术出版社), print no. 8073.10101
Call number: BG E13/857 (Landsberger collection)
The power of the word, and in particular Mao Zedong’s words, is clearly illustrated in this impressive design. The nuclear mushroom cloud can indicate two things: Mao Zedong Thought is like a spiritual atom bomb, as the slogan went, or, thanks to Mao Zedong Thought, China has been able to develop its own nuclear device. It’s not all destruction: in the left background we can see the famous Yangzi bridge at Nanjing, touted as one of the great accomplishments of the Cultural Revolution.
From Chineseposters.net:
Designer: Ge Wei (戈韦)
1955, March
All nationalities of our nation have already united into a great family of independent and equal nationalities
Woguo ge minzu yijing tuanjie wei yige ziyou pingdengde minzu da jiating (我国各民族已经团结为一个自由平等的民族大家庭)
Publisher: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社)
Size: 77x53 cm.
Call number: BG E15/297 (Landsberger collection)
(via panatheist)
