Monkey King Sun Wukong beats the White-bone demon three times (孙悟空三打白骨精)
Painting depicts the celebrated incident from the 17th century novel "Journey to the West", which was used used in the late 1970s as an allegory for the overthrow of Mao’s widow Jiang Qing. Price: 14 fen
- In Collection:
- 1 poster ; 75 x 53 cm
- [Monkey King] Sun Wukong beats the White-bone demon three times
- Sun Wukong san-da Baigujing
- 孙悟空三打白骨精
- First edition.
- 35, 105
- Chinese Propaganda Poster Project
- From the collection of Barry Till.
- [calligraphic inscription:] "The Golden Monkey wrathfully swung his massive [thousand-pound] cudgel, And the Jade Firmament was cleaned of dust" [lines from Mao's 1961 poem "Reply to Comrade Guo Moruo"] Winter 1976, by Zhao Hongben
- Scanned and edited by KM and CDW, cataloguing metadata provided by R.King and KM. Migration metadata by KD.
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