Chinese posters on COVID-19

Collection

Identifier: 3334

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Scope and Contents

A collection of 32 public health posters on COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) published in China during 2020. The posters appear to be government-issued propaganda, advocating for unity and shared responsibility and featuring images of heroic labor figures, families, and medical workers coming together to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The posters do not identify a specific issuing agency. Some of the posters reference Wuhan, China. Almost all of the text on the posters is in Chinese. However, a few of the posters feature phrases in English, including "Epidemic assistance," "Spring blossoms unity is strength," "Wuhan come on," "Go through the Winter and welcome the Spring," and "Our Wuhan is waking up."

Dates

Creation: 2020

Conditions Governing Access

Advance notice required for access.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of the East Asian Library at eal@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the East Asian Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Extent

0.2 Linear Feet (32 posters in 2 oversize folders)

Language of Materials

Chinese

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased from China Classics Inc., February 9, 2021.

Processing Information

When the USC Libraries first acquired these posters in 2021, Mei Lun Sin, Senior Library Assistant, cataloged the posters individually using USC's integrated library system. In 2022, Bo Doub, Accessioning Archivist, processed the collection of posters together as an archival collection -- migrating the information from Mei Lun Sin's catalog records into this finding aid.