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Calendar Poster with a Lady

Hu Boxiang Chinese

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In the early twentieth century the center of popular print production moved from Suzhou to Shanghai, where a vibrant poster industry drew heavily on the Western techniques of photography and lithography, as exemplified by this calendar poster for the year 1930 advertising tobacco.

Calendar Poster with a Lady, Hu Boxiang (Chinese, 1896–1989), Photolithograph; ink and color on paper, China

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