Revolutionary Spirit

Although the picture below was not taken there, a real Shanghai treasure is the Propaganda Poster Museum. Founded by one man, Yang Peiming, and housed in the basement of an apartment block on Huashan Lu, it's an unlikely trove of propaganda posters from the era in which Mao dominated the CCP.

Whether nationalistic, patriotic, xenophobic, or all three, the posters provide both an eye-catching entree into the various political movements of the Maoist era as well as a timeline of these upheavals that post-civil war China endured.

Imagine harnessing all of this enthusiasm!