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Dazibao: a “report in large characters”

May 25 marks the first Chinese “flash poster”, the translation of dazibao in Oshanin’s Comprehensive Chinese-Russian Dictionary. On May 25, 1966, Peking University associate professor Nie Yuan and seven assistants...

On May 25, 1966, Peking University associate professor Nie Yuan and seven assistants put up China’s first flash poster. Such posters would quickly become an integral propaganda tool of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

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