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The Political Body:
Posters from the People's Republic of China
IN THE 1960S AND
1970S
OCTOBER 6 - DECEMBER 18, 2005
Exhibition
reception and gallery talk with Joyce Madancy, Associate Professor of
History at Union College
Monday, October
24
4:30- 6:30 PM
With the
morning sun in your hearts
What is
there to fear
Dare to
sacrifice your youth for the People
Learn from the
eleven educated youth from
Huangshan Tea
Plantation in Shanghai who "Firstly defied hardship and
secondly feared not death"
Shanghai, 1971
A
selection of approximately thirty posters from the
University of
Westminster Chinese Poster Collection, the exhibition The Political
Body reveals the relationship between representations of the
individual human body and the body politic in China during the 1960s and
1970s.
These posters were created during the period known as "The Cultural Revolution" in China. Graphic images were produced for pure political rhetoric to be translated into visual personifications of masculine and violent aggression during that time.
We must triumph
The British in Hong Kong
must be defeated
Guangdong, 1967
FILM SERIES
Morning Sun
(2003, 117 min., in English) directed by Carma
Hinton, Richard Gordon, and
Geremie Barmé
Thursday, October 6, 7 PM
Olin Building Auditorium (rm. 115), Union
College
This documentary film attempts to create an
inner history of the Great
Proletarian Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976).
It provides a multi-perspective view of a period of turmoil as seen through
the eyes and reflected in the hearts and minds of the generation that
was born around the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China
in 1949, and that came of age in the 1960s.
To Live
(1994, 133 min., Chinese with English subtitles)
directed by Zhang Yimou
Monday, October 17, 7 PM
Olin Building Auditorium (rm. 115), Union
College
This film by renowned director Zhang Yimou
(Hero, Raise the Red Lantern, Ju
Dou, Red Sorghum), is a poignant drama that
follows one Chinese family through the tumultuous decades of the Communist
Revolution, beginning in the 1940s and ending in the 1980s.
The exhibition shows how the body is
portrayed at different political moments and links idealized
human figures to political campaigns from China's Maoist
ideology to the beginning of economic and cultural reform.
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