Big Characters Poster Re-appear in Beijing Streets (Chinese)

For Chinese speakers/readers: Big character posters (da zi bao 大字報) appeared again in the Beijing streetscape mid-November 2018, posted by the “Zhengzhou Propaganda Team of Mao Zedong Thought” 郑州毛泽东思想宣传队, as stated on the posters. Brief video report: 北京街头出现为文革翻案的多张大字报. This is an interesting use of the old-school technology to spread information. It is also worth bearing in mind that we are in the fiftieth anniversary period of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-76), without much, if any, acknowledgement of that fact in Chinese official media.

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