Teaching Activities

1. Use the following websites to research the use of posters to promote public health in China:
   www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/chineseposters/
   http://home.wmin.ac.uk/china­_posters/health.htm
   
   Use the research project to explore:
   1. the health messages promulgated in these poster campaigns
   2. the links between health messages and political campaigns.
2. Use the following websites to research the use of propaganda posters to promote the personality cult of Chairman Mao:
   www.iisg.nl/landsberger
   http://chineseposters.net
   www.sinohits.net/posters
   
   Use the posters to trace the development of Mao’s personality cult through the years 1946 to 1976. Compare the way(s) in which Mao was depicted in the 1940s/50s with the way(s) in which he was depicted in the 1960s/70s.