Stefan R. Landsberger (1955) was trained as a
sinologist at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Fascinated by
totalitarian propaganda, he started to collect Chinese propaganda
posters in the 1970s. His collection has grown into one of the largest
private collections in the world. Having had access to these posters
for such a long time, he has come to consider them as rich primary
sources for research on contemporary Chinese developments. For that
reason, Landsberger used them as the basis for his Ph.D. research,
which focussed on materials published in the 1980s. The results were
published as Chinese Propaganda Posters—From Revolution to Modernization
(Amsterdam / Armonk: Pepin Press / M.E. Sharpe, 1996, reprinted in 1998
and 2001). The book also appeared in German, under the title Chinesische Propaganda—Kunst und Kitsch zwischen Revolution und Alltag (Köln: DuMont, 1996).
Over the years, Landsberger has continued his
collecting activities, as well as his research on Chinese propaganda.
This has led to numerous publications, including “Learning by
What Example? Educational Propaganda in Twenty-first-Century
China”, Critical Asian Studies, vol. 33, No. 4 (December 2001), pp. 541-571; Paint it red—Fifty years of Chinese Propaganda Posters
(Groningen: Uitgeverij Intermed, 1998); and “The Deification of
Mao: Religious Imagery and Practices during the Cultural Revolution and
Beyond”, Woei Lien Chong (ed.), China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution—Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives
(Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002), pp. 139-184.
He has (co-)curated exhibitions in Hamburg (1996) and Groningen (1998).
Landsberger is Olfert Dapper Professor of Contemporary Chinese Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Lecturer
in contemporary Chinese History at Leiden University, The Netherlands, and member of the editorial board of the
journal China Information, published by
Sage Publications.
This section is part of Stefan Landsberger's Poster Pages
See also: chineseposters.net - New website of Stefan Landsberger in cooperation with the International Institute of Social History.
s.r.landsberger@let.leidenuniv.nl
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