Illustration:
ill. 6.12 b (set: 6.8)
Author:
Xi'an art academy 西安美专
Date:
1959
Genre:
comic, comic strip
Material:
scan, paper, colour; original source: print on paper, colour
Source:
Zhongguo lianhuanhua 2000, Vols. I & II: Zhongguo lianhuanhua 中国连环画 (Chinese comics), Harbin: Heilongjiang, 2000:II/12.
Keywords:
Mao Zedong, leader, red flag, gesture, masses, Mao Suit, sun, red sun, sunrays, iconography, comic

Twelve particular Strengths of the Communes (Renmingongshe de shi'er da youyuexing 人民公社的十二大优越性)

This type of depiction was powerful in comic rhetoric, and it could be seen before and even after the end of the Cultural Revolution, as in a number of 1950s comics such as this one.