This installment of In The Stacks takes us to The Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center.
The museum was founded by Yang Pei Ming who started collecting posters in 1995, the year the Chinese government ceased the long-standing practice of creating these propaganda-laced posters.
The collection is “dedicated to documenting the changes of modern China as depicted on thousands upon thousands of striking posters from 1910 to 1990.”
The collection holds 6000 posters produced from 1940 to 1990. The museum also holds a significant collection of Shanghai Lady Calendar posters from 1910 to 1940.
Shanghai Lady Calendar poster
NPR’s Shanghai correspondent Frank Langfitt pays a visit to the museum
Previously on In the Stacks:
Playing Cards at the Beinecke
National Library of Ireland
The Astor Free Library at the NYPL
Women’s Travel Diaries at Duke University
Charles Darwin’s Library
The National Archives
Private Libraries at the Museum of the City of New York
Los Angeles Public Library
Boston Public Library