Illustration:
ill. 4.14 b (set: 4.14)
Date:
1990， April
Genre:
poster, propaganda poster
Material:
scan, paper, colour, 53 x77 cm
Source:
Study well, and Be Loyal for Ever to the Party and the People, 1990, (Collection Pierre Lavigne, maopost.com 0600-001M)., Heidelberg catalogue entry
Courtesy:
Pierre Lavigne
Inscription:
好好学习， 永远忠于党， 忠于人民
Keywords:
propaganda poster, Lei Feng, pupils, studying, model hero, children

Study well, and be loyal for ever to the Party and the people (Haohao xuexi,yongyuan zhong yu dang, zhong yu renmin. 好好学习， 永远忠于党， 忠于人民)

There was a relative dearth of Mao's works on the market since 1982--due to some of the destructions of Maoist writings in the early 1980s and restrictions in their republication (Barmé 1996:10). The book with Mao's writings also disappears as a symbol from visual evidence throughout the 1980s and 1990s. There are only rare examples of books being held up, radiating like a sun in propaganda posters and other visual materials from this period. If found, there is one significant difference to Cultural Revolution practice which in itself continues what had been prevalent in the 1950s and early 1960s: Mao and his works are no longer exclusive heroes. As had been the case in the 1950s and into the early 1960s, in the 1980s and 90s Marx and Lenin's books, too, or even a new marriage law, not just Mao's writings alone, may be seen to emanate sunrays.