⧉Image Agricultural Tools: 1962 'Spring Plowing' Poster
- Title
- Spring plowing (Chungeng 春耕)
- Date
- 1962
- Creator
- Fang Dong 方洞
- Publisher
- Renmin jiaoyu chubanshe
- Rights
- Courtesy of the IISH/Stefan R. Landsberger Collection. Photo © International Institute of Social History. BG E15/765
- Description
This propaganda visualizes two important trends in Maoist China, namely the mechanization and industrialization of agricultural production, as well as the growing integration of women into production which was seen as their liberation from the shackles of domestic (unpaid) labor and patriarchic structures in society. Accordingly, tractor girls enjoyed a considerable popularity on propaganda posters of the 1950s and -60s.