visual art as cultural memory in modern china

interdisciplinary symposia(Oct. 15-16, Oct. 22-23, 1999)held in conjunction with
picturing power:posters of the cultural revolution

text for poster above from exhibition:
oppose economism
反對經濟主義 fandui jingjizhuyi
proclaimed by the shanghai publishing apparatus revolutionary rebel headquarters
1967, shanghai

subtitled: beat down the counterattack of the capitalist class' reactionary line. here, red guards, inflamed with disgust at the antics of deng xiaoping and others, who put economics before politics, rip up papers reading "economism" and "welfarism" and prefer to write their slogans directly on the wall. this poster had a comparatively small print run (a first printing of only 10,000), which was common in this period. paper was scarce and the production and distribution of propaganda was less centralized than before and after the 1966-69 period.