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Chen Jiahua, 1997
Enthusiastically celebrate the return of Hong Kong
Publisher: Hubei Fine Arts Publishing House
(Offset, 77x53 cm., inv.nr. BG E13/558, coll. Landsberger)

Poster on occasion of the return of Hong Kong to China on July 1, 1997. The child holds the flag of Hong Kong, with a stylized bauhinia flower. The poster seems to echoe a famous poster by Ha Qiongwen from 1959, on which an elegant woman holds up a happy child in honour of Chairman Mao.