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The Woman Tractor Driver

一個女拖拉機手

c. 1962

Xu Fubao 徐甫堡

(Chinese)
publisher

Duo Yun Xuan

Culture
China
Medium
Woodcut print; ink, color, and oil on paper
Measurements
22.4 x 19.7 cm (8 13/16 x 7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Thomas and Patricia Ebrey 2025.572
Copyright
© Xu Fubao
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Under Mao, women’s equality was improved, and they were encouraged to join the workforce to help construct the new socialist state.

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Under Chairman Mao, printmakers were encouraged to continue to make prints in support of the country’s modernization efforts. Themes included women joining the workforce as soldiers, farmers, and steel workers to help construct the new socialist state, as well as joining men in the fields. New motifs such as tractors, trains, electrical equipment, and smoking chimneys were introduced into landscape scenery to illustrate a prospering China.
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The Woman Tractor Driver

c. 1962

Xu Fubao, Duo Yun Xuan

(Chinese)
China

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