Posters For or Against Prohibition

Two sources of prohibition against posters for the ban, C and D, were made by Anti-Sharon Association; they were founded in Ohio in 1893. The Anti-Sharon Alliance is an organization that opposes alcohol sales. Therefore, both posters are forbidden support. The title of Source C is "Club of the poor, the world's most valuable club". This is an attempt to say that people going to the bar will become poor because they spend all their money on alcohol because alcohol is very expensive.

What is a big print This is a political text, written in handwritten letters on paper, posted in public places, walls covering these posters create a forum for discussion and communication. The large format poster played a role in the hundred flower movement of 1956. Meanwhile, individuals were encouraged to express their views on modern politics. In 1958, Mao wrote as follows. "A big poster is a very useful new weapon, as long as the masses are there, you can use it anywhere." Therefore, especially during the Cultural Revolution, the large letter poster became a tool for collective mobilization. Like these examples at the bank center exhibition, they are used to expose the enemies of the revolution, accuse them of committing a crime, and seek class struggle with them.

The use of posters with large letters has not ended with the cultural revolution. The poster appeared in 1976 during the student movement in the mid-1980s and was at the center of democratic wall movement in 1978. The most famous poster in this period was Wei Jingsheng who called democracy "the fifth modernization". The People's Daily condemned their responsibilities in the "10-year turmoil" and threatened socialist democracy. Nevertheless, regardless of whether it is in the form of fliers and notes made by students in Hong Kong umbrella movement, or as a short post on China's internet. These big letter posters of the Cultural Revolution convey us freedom of speech in Chinese politics as a means of protest and control.