Chairman Mao

There are hundreds of posters depicting the Chairman Mao era in a very useful site Chinese Posters site. Some of the links below are to this site as they are an excellent insight of the Chinese propaganda of Mao’s rule.

The Great Leap Forward

This was the campaign that created communes and led to the death of tens of millions of peasants. Posters

While there are many videos, a few are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlbB3cmgPmo

The Cultural Revolution

This poster perhaps encapsulates this campaign better than any other as the young people took to the streets to destroy anything old, which is why I choose this as my book cover

To give you some idea of the buildings, people and events that I describe in my stories I have made available some descriptions, backed by photographs and videos, of life in Shanghai and Hong Kong during the period of my novels.

This site contains some copyrighted material that is made available in an effort to advance understanding of the history of China and Hong Kong, which I feel constitutes ‘fair use’ of such material under US Copyright Law. If you are the copyright owner and would like this content removed from ‘Chinese Circles’ please contact me.