上海宣传画艺术中心

This guide to the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre opens with two hundred strangers crowding into a residential basement one Sunday afternoon, and the neighbor complaints that eventually forced the collection to move. It follows Yang Peiming, a travel agency worker with a lifelong habit of collecting things, as he pulled thousands of Mao-era posters out of the trash through the 1980s and 90s, when offices and museums wanted nothing to do with them. Listen for how the timeline inside moves from liberation-era optimism toward the imagery of the Cultural Revolution.