"团结战斗学大寨 誓把山河面貌改" (Unite and fight, learn from Dazhai, vow to change the face of the land), poster
A smiling young man in a red vest and a soldier in a red-collared army cap carry a flanged steel pipe on a shoulder pole, with terraced hillsides, tractors and small red flags behind them; one flag reads 'Agriculture: learn from Dazhai'. The red caption pairs 'unite and fight' with the model village's name and a vow to remake the landscape, so a named exemplar and large abstract aims stand in for any figures on output (transfer, glittering generalities).
- Date
- 1976
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- People's Republic of China (issuing body not named in the museum record); artist Yao Erchang, Shanghai
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- China
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Mao Zedong
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Labor
- 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. 1996.20.0725, via Europeana, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0 (image, per Europeana record; item record CC0)
Etnografiska museet / Världskulturmuseerna, 1996.20.0725, CC BY 4.0. Poster: Yao Erchang, Shanghai, 1976
Text on the object
团结战斗学大寨 誓把山河面貌改 农业学大寨
Unite, fight, learn from Dazhai; vow to change the face of mountains and rivers. Agriculture: learn from Dazhai.
The second line is the small banner at upper left. A small printed colophon and a pencilled note at the lower right are illegible and omitted.
