Illustration:
ill. 6.43 c (set: 6.43)
Author:
Geng Yuemin 耿跃民
Date:
1974
Genre:
poster, propaganda poster
Material:
internet file, colour, original source: poster, paper, colour
Source:
DACHS 2009 Propaganda Posters, Maopost.com (edited by Pierre-Loic Lavigne and Pierre Budestschu): 0707-001 M, Heidelberg catalogue entry
Courtesy:
Pierre Lavigne
Inscription:
引人入胜
Keywords:
children, small bookstall, reading, comic, popularity of comics, lending library, Cultural Revolution, model hero, Mao’s good student Jiao Yulu, The story of Norman Bethune, Three Constantly Read Articles, Lao sanpian

Fascinating (Yin ren ru sheng 引人入胜)

Thirty years later, this 1974 propaganda poster entitled Fascinating [引人入胜] appears as almost a mirror copy of the earlier image (6.43b): it shows a group of boys and girls sitting not on a bench but on small chairs at such a stall, the shelves behind them filled with typical comic readings from the Cultural Revolution: comics from the model works, the story of Mao’s good student Jiao Yulu, the story of Norman Bethune, one of the Three Constantly Read Articles. Not unlike in the earlier image, the children are depicted reading intently and quite obviously enjoying themselves, laughing together or pointing to details in the books, although here they are all facing the viewer, so that their enjoyment can be perceived all the more easily.