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Shanghai 1967, Shanghai Shi Hong Wei Bing Dong Fang Hong x fan x bu. Sigle sheet, stencil printed, 51.2 x 73 cm. verso with some restoration, now solid. FIRST EDITION This is an excellent example of the early and most aggressive style of the early "Hong Wei Bing" ["Red Guards"] and movement once Chairman Mao sanctioned the "Red Guards." * SUBJECT OF THE POSTER: This poster shows an idealized and armed "Hong Wei Bing" ["Red Guard"], with a red and gold "Hong Wei Bing" arm band on his left arm, he also holds a machine gun and shouts: "she hand dui maozhushi will be beaten."Whoever Opposes Chairman Mao Will Have His Dog Head Smashed In!" * This and other slogans were shouted throuoghout the streets as large masses of "Hong Wei Bing" ["Red Guards"] marched while waving their little "Red Book" with sayings of Chairman Mao. *** DETAILS OF THE POSTER: This item consists of two copies of the very rare poster. The first copy [shown on our site as cover.jpg] is the original silk-screened poster, dated 1967, probably published early in the year, prior to February, when political opinion at the center had decided on the removal of the "Red Guards" from the Cultural Revolution scene in the interest of national stability. There was a wide backlash in the spring of 1967 against the suppression, with student attacks on any symbol of authority and PLA [People's Liberation Army] units. An order from Mao, the Cultural Revolution Group, the State Council, and the Central Military Affairs Committee of the PLA on September 5, 1967 instructed the PLA to restore order to China. . This poster was silk-screened on heavy tan paper in red and black ink. It is now in excellent restored condition, with corner and other mends & tears mended with acid free Washi paper. The work is solid, with two period center folds, a few wrinkles, flat and quite solid. It was removed from a concrete cinder block wall and had some minor loss to the corners and center where it was glued down. *** The second copy is a later reprint, not silk screened, but printed on tan-colored thin paper, an exact copy of the original in black & red ink. Even though it is an exact copy, and though it shows the same date colophon as the original, it is clearly NOT the original. It is in excellent condition with a bit of edge wrinkles due to rolling, otherwise a few small pin holes which have been restored from the verso. Please see this image posted to our site as illus01.jpg. . Although both clearly show 1967 as the published date. The later reprint is simply a poorer copy on thin-cheap paper which is "toned" to look like an original. The original is printed on heavy paper, and is a proper poster. It is interesting to have both copies together for study purposes. *** THE RISE AND FALL OF THE "RED GUARDS" & THE "CULTURAL REVOLUTION 1966-1967: On the orders of Mao, the PLA violently put down the national "Red Guard" movement from about Feburary 1968, with brutal suppression. A radical alliance of "Red Guard" groups called the "Sheng Wu Lien" was involved in clashes with local PLA units, in the first half of 1968 but was forcibly oppressed. At the same time the PLA carried out mass executions of "Red Guards" in Guangxi province that were unprecedented in the Cultural Revolution. By September 1968, the PLA had put down the majority of "Red Guard" anarchy by force, thus bringing an end to the "Cultural Revolution." * REFERENCE: Wikipedia: posters on this subject see: urce=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=OPWbUv2iDJLboAT9xoDoDQ&ved=0CAcQ_ AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=587 * This poster is found the above google site, page 8, second to the last example. There were several examples done in black and red on buff stiff paper, using the silk screen technique. Others examples can be found on this site. Most of these original are now quite rare and obscure, being ephemeral many were posted to walls, and lost to attrition of weather, changing timers and opposing attitudes, and "political correctness." Few original posters survive now. *.