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Tuanjie qilai, zhengqu geng da de shengli ("Unite to Achieve an Even Greater Victory"). First international edition, first printing, of this scarce septalingual propaganda poster representing the unity of Communist China's ethnicities and classes. Designed by model workers in Shanghai, it was released to promote the Campaign to Study the Dictatorship of the Proletariat - the last hurrah of the Cultural Revolution's revolutionary politics before Mao's death in 1976. Chinese posters from the 1970s are uncommon in such collectible condition.In this poster, multiple figures are shown clutching a pamphlet, published in 1975, titled Makesi Engesi Liening lun wuchan jieji zhuanzheng (Marx, Engels and Lenin on the Dictatorship of the Proletariat). With Mao ailing and more moderate economic reformers resurgent, radical members of the Chinese Communist Party's leadership spearheaded a new campaign to study Marxist-Leninist theory and reinvigorate the Cultural Revolution.In keeping with the period's emphasis on collectivized cultural production, the artwork was produced by amateur artists from Shanghai's Jing'an District Cultural Palace with assistance from Li Min and Hu Yiren, two factory workers, and You Longgu from the publisher Shanghai renmin chubanshe (Shanghai People's Press). A domestic edition of 30,000 copies was printed in tandem with this international edition distributed abroad by China's state bookstore.We have traced one institutional copy of this edition at Hong Kong Bap

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