Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

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Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s (II)

(from 11th Jul until 20th Nov 2011)

Explore the bold and colourful imagery found on posters and other items from this revolutionary period.

Detail of Figures and flags in front of Great Hall of the People, China, 1976 (Museum No: EA2006.263
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The freighter Feng Qing

  • Description

    The freighter Feng Qing was a 10,000-ton-class ocean-going freighter, made by the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai in 1973, and owned by the Shanghai branch of China Ocean Shipping company. The vessel was the tenth 10,000-ton-class freighter designed and built with domestic equipment made entirely in China. On 30 September 1974, the freighter returned to Shanghai after its successful first voyage to the Mediterranean, and a big celebration was held to mark ‘the victory of the spirit of self-reliance’. Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), the Deputy Premier of the State Council at that time, later commented how the Gang of Four used the successful construction of the freighter Feng Qing as a way to attack Premier Zhou Enlai (1898-1976). They argued that he had betrayed the country by allowing freighters to be rented from abroad.

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    AsiaChina Shanghai province (subject)
    Date
    c. 1975
    Material and technique
    cut paper
    Dimensions
    20.5 x 13.8 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    cut
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by John Gittings, 2008.
    Accession no.
    EA2008.33.b

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    • currently in research collection

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