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Richard Goodall Gallery Contemporary Art - Chinese Propaganda Poster For Sale Exhibition 2012

An exhibition of original Chinese Propaganda Posters 1969-1979 9 th March – 7 th April 2012 http://www.richardgoodallgallery.com/contemporaryart/move-the-mountain-an-exhibition-of-original-chinese-propaganda-posters-1969-to-1979-news-84.html
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Breaking with Old Ideas : China

http://archive.org/details/Breaking_With_Old_Ideas
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/hsc/evrev/mao_suit.htm

Evolution and revolution: Chinese dress 1700s-1990s - Mao suit

The Sun Yat-sen suit Sun Yat-sen ( Sun Zhongshan ) (1866-1925), the Provisional President of the new Chinese Republic proclaimed in 1911, is credited with the modernisation of Chinese men's dress.

Maoist model theatre: the semiotics of gender and sexuality in the Chinese ... - Rosemary A. Roberts

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BJ2V1eeXnrIC&pg=PA85&dq=cultural+revolution+fashion&hl=en&sa=X&ei=R3RTT6XRPMPH0QXHq6XjCw&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=cultural%20revolution%20fashion&f=false books.google.co.uk - Here is a convincing reflection that changes our understanding of gender in Maoist culture, esp. for what critics from the 1990s onwards have termed its erasure of gender and sexuality.
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Born_Red.html?id=OrN_UGo9S0UC#v=onepage&q=clothing&f=false JSTOR: Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution. Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution, by Gao Yuan. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1987. xxxii, 380 pp.

Born red: a chronicle of the Cultural Revolution - Yuan Gao

Based largely on nineteenth and twentieth-century representations of Chinese dress as traditional and unchanging, historians have long regarded fashion as something peculiarly Western. But in this surprising, sumptuously illustrated book, Antonia Finnane proves that vibrant fashions were a vital part of Chinese life in the late imperial era, when well-to-do men and women showed a keen awareness of what was up-to-date.

Changing clothes in China: fashion, history, nation - Antonia Finnane

http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Changing_Clothes_in_China.html?id=Ju3N4VeiQ28C#v=onepage&q=cultural%20revolution%20fashion&f=false

Evolution and revolution: Chinese dress 1700s-1990s - The Cultural Revolution: the Four Olds

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a mass movement launched in 1966, to remould society and reactivate Communist ideals. http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/hsc/evrev/cultural_revolution.htm
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/publications/from-the-archives/items/view/170 A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China Contributions by Julia F.

From the Archives

29 October 2011—22 January 2012 In the Sackler Wing of Galleries, Burlington House http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/building-the-revolution/

Building the Revolution - Exhibitions