Database name:
RedBookCoversMaoistChina
Display name:
Red Book Covers –Dust Jackets in Maoist China
Description:
In Maoist China, state publishers shaped public consciousness to a hitherto unknown degree. Already before the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1st, 1949 did Mao Zedong formulate his vision of how propaganda should work in arts and literature.
Existing research has documented the ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party to do so. Mao's instruction, however, did not only relate to texts but also to images. This project aims at shifting the perspective to another influential medium, that is book covers. No matter if black-and-white or in color these covers allow insights into the aesthetics and political message conveyed to an audience more forcefully and directly than the lengthy texts following the fancy covers.
This database allows searching book covers dating from the period of 1949 to 1978 and to categorize them according to different criteria.
Copyright:
Marc Matten
Ownership:
Marc Matten
Record count:
795
Files referenced:
262
Data last updated:
2024-05-04 18:38:20
Structure last updated:
2023-07-04 16:15:22
Registration ID:
0
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part of Category
Educational institution
Ethnic Group
Group or association
Organisation
Person
Project
Team
Map/image annotation
Place
Site (Historical, Archaeological)
Structure
Blog post (for website)
Digital media (image, video, PDF etc.)
Email
Web bookmark (site or page)
Document
Interpretive annotation
Interview
Notes
Translation
Event - contemporary
Event - historical
Eventlet
Life event
Place role instance
Story element
Business
Funding Program
Grant
Jurisdiction
Archival record
Archival record series
Artwork
Book chapter
Conference
Journal
Journal article
Journal volume
Magazine
Magazine article
Magazine volume
Map
Newspaper
Newspaper article
Newspaper volume
Other document
Personal communication
Photograph
Publication series
Report
Thesis
Heurist Map Document
Heurist Map Layer
KML (file or snippet)
Map image file (non-tiled)
Map image file (tiled)
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