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Reports from the PRC
China from within between 1999 and 2000.

A first glance on Kunming.
The CD and VCD industry.
Tourism in Kunming: Daguan Park and Yuantong Temple.
50th anniversary of PRC - 1.
50th anniversary of PRC - 2.
An "art" festival.
Rebuilding a city: destruction and development.
Sitcoms and propaganda: Chinese television.
The old face of Kunming: pictures taken 100 years ago.
The Chinese as neighbors: living in Kunming.

Propagandist publications
Documents of Communist propaganda from the '60s and '70s.

Tibet: a "pacific" liberation.
Barefoot doctors of the Cultural Revolution.
The Great Leap Forward
Mao and the others
The Little White Hen: a propagandist children story
(present for our first 2000 visitors)

Propagandist art
Socialist realism and the cult of Mao Zedong.

Paintings from the 1977 National Art Exhibition.
A celebration of Mao Zedong by Gao Hong.
Official portraits of President Mao from the Hebei gongnongbing huakan, 1971 and 1977.

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