Propaganda: Power and Persuasion: An exhibition at the British Library

The British Library is currently running a good exhibition around the theme of propaganda. Obviously they have some great stuff from their collections. It runs till mid-September.  The exhibition includes some items of interest to China Rhyming readers including some interesting prints from the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 with some battlefield scenes from Mizuno Toshikata and some images of Port Arthur Bay (now Lushun). There are also some particularly striking cartoons from the Russo-Japanese War (1905) showing the Japanese giving the Tsar’s army a bloody nose. There’s also quite a bit of Cultural Revolution stuff including stamps and the revolutionary opera, The White Haired Girl, which goes back further than the CR and was first performed as a piece of propaganda in 1945. Finally, I found the examples of early posters promoting the introduction of the One Child Policy from the 1970s quite interesting and hadn’t seen many of them before.