[EDUCATIONAL PROPAGANDA POSTER - SINO-VIETNAMESE WAR MATERIAL].

从小学英模，长大建奇功. [Cong xiao xue yingmo, zhangda jian qigong].<BR> [Learn from Heroes in Your Youth; Achieve Great Feats in Adulthood].

Chongqing. 重庆出版社. [Chongqing chubanshe]. 1986. Stock ID #223015

Large colour poster of patriotic children standing proudly to the right of a medal, text in simplified Chinese characters, 74.7 x 52.5cm. Good copy.

This print, from a highly symbolic painting done in a modern impressionist style by 张长清 Zhang Changqing, would have been a wall poster for use in upper primary classrooms, with the aim of encouraging children to strive to be heroes and to achieve. Behind the children is an image of the 1986 Laoshan Hero Commemorative Medal 八一金星配三色绶带 . The girl is holding aa book, which maybe a collection of hero accounts for study, with the words Laoshan on the cover, symbolising sacrifice, bravery and usually that the bearer had somehow contributed to the Laoshan war effort, but in this case possibly a textbook about Laoshan and the need to learn from the heroes of that military campaign. Laoshan (老山) refers to the fighting along the Yunnan-Vietnam border in 1984, part of the wider border clashes that followed the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War and continued into the late 1980s. Vietnamese sources usually call this the Vị Xuyên campaign, after the district in Hà Giang province, and it is remembered there as a defense against Chinese attack. An interesting poster showing Chinese attitudes of the period. With the use of children to press home the point it is a interesting example of Chinese war commemoration from a very contested period.

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Price: $350.00 AU

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