The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies presents a panel discussion to celebrate the launch of our world-debut exhibition of Cultural Revolution-era artworks.

This is the first time that these works, including "dazibao" (or “big-character posters”), have been publicly displayed since the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).

Panelists:

Denise Ho, Assistant Professor of History, Yale University

Jie Li, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science, Emeritus, Harvard University

Julia Murray, Professor of Art History, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Xiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University

Moderated by Michael Szonyi, Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University

Read blog posts by our panelists on dazibao and Cultural Revolution-era artworks on the Fairbank Center Blog:

Part 1: Reading “Big-Character Posters”: https://medium.com/fairbank-center/exhibiting-the-cultural-revolution-part-1-reading-big-character-posters-d3edd7bb0104

Part 2: The Visual Spectacle of “Dazibao”: https://medium.com/fairbank-center/exhibiting-the-cultural-revolution-part-2-the-visual-spectacle-of-dazibao-7a61d5ba684b

Part 3: Dazibao Exhibitionism: https://medium.com/fairbank-center/exhibiting-the-cultural-revolution-part-3-dazibao-exhibitionism-3855a62a8bc6

Part 4: Pictorial Posters: https://medium.com/fairbank-center/exhibiting-the-cultural-revolution-part-4-pictoral-posters-4475daf92185