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One of the most controversial dramatic films produced in China during the cultural revolution, "Breaking" is about the struggle to democratize education in the countryside.
Breaking with Old Ideas : China
China fashion: conversations with designers - Christine Tsui - Google Books
Christine Tsui is a visiting lecturer in the Shanghai Institute of China Academy of Arts.How has fashion mirrored the social and cultural changes that have taken place in modern China?
Chinese fashion: from Mao to now - Juanjuan Wu - Google Books
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 - Google Books
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.
Ostalgia, The New Museum, New York, July 14-October 2, 2011 The narrative of nostalgia defines the exhibition Ostalgia, an unconventional survey of more than 50 artists from various countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics, whose "main protagonist," states curator Massmilano Gioni, is "the overarching ideology of Soviet Socialism." The show's title is taken from the German word Ostalgie or "nostalgia for the East" that emerged in the early 1990s to describe a longing for Germany pre-unification, and later elsewhere in Eastern and Western Europe as a collective mourning for the communist past...
ARTMargins: Central & Eastern European Visual Culture
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China , which was presented at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo (now closed) in 1998, and organized by scholars of modern Chinese art (Julia F. Andrews and Kuiya Shen).
From the Archives
In Oct 2010 while on a research trip in Tajikistan I came across a curious scrapbook of Soviet-era graphics in a junk-shop in the capital city Dushanbe. Within it were pages with collaged panels containing imagery ranging from depictions of cosmonauts, political figures, musical iconography and political illustrations in Constructivist and Suprematist styles.
Dushanbe Scrapbook - a set on Flickr
The Happiest Place in the Saddest Place on Earth Is Still Pretty Depressing
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Kim Jong-il is dead. Here's his monster movie.
Now that lunatic dictator Kim Jong-il has passed on to the great rusty amusement park near the Earth's mantle, we've dug deep in the io9 vaults for a look back at his sole contribution to science fiction cinema , the 1985 kaiju flick Pulgasari . A giant iron-eating bull takes on an army of slave laborers in Pulgasari , the most famous North Korean movie ever. Kim Jong-Il kidnapped South Korean director Shin Sang-Ok and his wife, actress Choe Un-Hee.Posters produced in China and North Korea to celebrate cultural events, political achievements and spread propoganda. Rosy cheeked, healthy and hard working, citizens are portrayed happily working hard in agricultre and industry. Young men bear arms with determination whilst Chairman Mao smiles down on all.
Chinese and North Korean Posters
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