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Beating the White-bone Demon three times (三打白骨精) [posters 01 and 02]

A pair of posters, each with six illustrations, presenting the celebrated incident from the novel "Journey to the West" (西游记) used in the late 1970s as an allegory for the overthrow of Mao’s widow Jiang Qing. Price: 22 fen for both

In Collection:
Creator Publisher Language Keyword Date created Resource type Rights statement Extent
  • 2 posters ; each 77 x 52 cm
Alternative title
  • 三打白骨精
  • San-da Baigujing
  • Beating the White-bone Demon three times
Edition
  • First edition 1978-05, first printing 1978-06.
Geographic Coverage Coordinates
  • 35, 105
Collection
  • Chinese Propaganda Poster Project
Provenance
  • From the collection of Barry Till.
Provider Genre Technical note
  • Scanned and edited by KM and CDW, cataloguing metadata provided by R.King and KM. Migration metadata by KD. [data on the second poster only]
Rights
  • These images are provided for teaching and research use only.
DOI
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file details BeatingTheWhiteBoneDemonThreeTimes_01
file details BeatingTheWhiteBoneDemonThreeTimes_02.tif 2024-12-05