Chinese+Propaganda

Mao's principal of out with the old and in with the new had help from propaganda. Here the red guard soldier is literally destroying a crucifix, a Buddha, and classical Chinese texts. These items are artifacts and symbols from an older china that Mao Zedong did everything to destroy. As part of the movement to move the past along and usher in a new and better age. [|Examples of Posters]



Mao's Space program was an example of this. On the right one can see how the program was used to manipulate in propoganda to show what the promise of future china. Mao rallied around his space program, which creates a sense of nationalism needed to have such a political and military and cultuaral strangle hold on all of chinese society. He told people what to think, how to act, and how to dream about thier futures.media type="youtube" key="Nm5fCJNMQWQ&hl=en" height="355" width="425" Good video overviewing Chinese Cultural Revolution and showing posters from the time period