Prevention of encephalitis among children in China. Colour lithograph, ca. 1970.

  • Zhou, Xiaolin, active approximately 1970.
Date:
[1970?]
Reference:
655308i
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About this work

Description

Typical of the means used by the Chinese government to promulgate health education and awareness in rural China. Such posters were usually pasted on walls and pasted over when the next campaign-- political or health education--came to town

Publication/Creation

[Beijing] : Jian kang bao she, [1970?]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 95.7 x 68.1 cm

Lettering

An quan jie sheng Six colour illustrations after paintings, above each of which are large Chinese characters providing the basic message. These characters are accompanied by romanisations of the characters to aid pronunciation and recognition by a semi-literate rural population. More detailed descriptions and advice are given beneath each illustration

Contents

1 Visit of a barefoot doctor (woman) to a village.-- 2 Doctor (man in white coat) in discussion with the father of a stricken child.-- 3 Steps to eradicate mosquitos, filling in of puddles etc. 4 Spraying interiors of farm houses with insecticide.-- 5 Child sleeping under a mosquito net being inspected by the mother.-- 6 Happy children being injected

Creator/production credits

Author named as Zhou Xiaolin; illustrator Me Gong; publisher: Jian kang bao she (Health Newspaper Office)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 655308i

Type/Technique

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