"连队理论小组" (Company theory study group), Shanghai poster
Nine soldiers in green uniforms crowd round a table of papers, books and a newspaper (the museum identifies it as People's Daily), one holding a small red book, with a rifle leaning at left. A blackboard reads 'Third: an outline of the Confucian-Legalist struggle in history' and a banner urges them to read seriously and master Marxism. Study is staged as the army's normal, eager routine, with the army's prestige and an abstract call to master Marxism standing for the argument (transfer, glittering generalities).
- Date
- 1975
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- People's Republic of China (issuing body not named in the museum record); artist Wang Zunyi, Shanghai
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- China
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Mao Zedong
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Techniques
- TransferGlittering generalities
- Leader
- Mao Zedong
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Etnografiska museet / Världskulturmuseerna (Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm), inv. 1996.20.0693, via Europeana, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0 (image, per Europeana record; item record CC0)
Etnografiska museet / Världskulturmuseerna, 1996.20.0693, CC BY 4.0. Poster: Wang Zunyi, Shanghai, 1975
Text on the object
认真看书学习，弄通马克思主义。 第三、历史上儒法斗争的概况 连队理论小组
Read books seriously and study, thoroughly grasp Marxism. Third: an outline of the Confucian-Legalist struggle in history. Company theory study group.
Banner (upper left), blackboard (centre right) and title (bottom left). The first characters of the banner's second line and the blackboard's 'Third' are low resolution. A pencilled note and colophon at the lower right are omitted.
