"打倒王张江姚…" (Down with Wang, Zhang, Jiang, Yao...), wall slogan at Dazhai, Shanxi
Black-on-white characters painted along a brick wall beside a street in Dazhai read 'Down with Wang, Zhang, Jiang, Yao' (the surnames of the four leaders arrested in October 1976), followed by characters partly hidden by a passer-by and a tree, probably the label 'Gang of Four'. Naming individuals by surname plus a collective label for public denunciation is the name-calling tell. A donkey cart and a truck pass in front.
- Date
- August 1977
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- People's Republic of China, local Party/commune authorities (painter not named)
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- China
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Leader
- Hua Guofeng
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Leader
- Xi Jinping
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv (Fotoarchiv Hans-Peter Bärtschi), SIK 01-008072, via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0 (ETH-Bibliothek Bildarchiv terms; stated on Commons file page); photograph only
Hans-Peter Bärtschi / ETH-Bibliothek Bildarchiv, SIK 01-008072-Print, CC BY-SA 4.0
Text on the object
打倒王张江姚[illegible: partly hidden by a person, probably 四]人[illegible: hidden by a tree, probably 帮] [cropped rooftop lettering at the far right: illegible]
Down with Wang, Zhang, Jiang, Yao [hidden] people [hidden] / [cropped rooftop lettering at far right: illegible]
Read from the 1280 px image. The completion '四人帮' (Gang of Four) is inferred from the character spacing and is not itself visible. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.
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