China during the Cultural Revolution: women engineers discuss improvements to textile manufacturing machines. Colour lithograph after Luo Fengxian, 1975.

  • Luo, Fengxian.
Date:
September 1975
Reference:
660903i
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About this work

Description

A scene in Yunnan Province Textile Mill ("Yun fang" for short). In the workshop there are rows of cotton-spinning machines. The workshop is divided into workgroups with charts at the end of each row indicating the daily production rates of the team. The painting shows some creative women workers who are assembling improved machines which they have designed themselves. All workers strive to be the first and to be paragons. To improve productivity and to economize on machine parts to the largest extent, workers try to use every possibility to innovate and to improve the configuration. The big box on the floor containing machine parts is marked "The Economical Box" ("Jie yue xiang"). Just as farm workers were impressed with the slogan "In agriculture, learn from Dazhai", so factory workers were impressed with another slogan, "In industry, learn from Daqing" (referring to an oil field in Heilongjiang Province that was renowned for the productivity of its workers)

Publication/Creation

Yunnan sheng : Yunnan ren min chu ban she, September 1975 (Yunnan : Yunnan Xinhua yin shua chang)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 76.4 x 53 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Ge xin chuang jiang Bears serial publication number (Bian hao): 8116-683

Edition

Di yi ban; Di yi ci yin shua [1 ed.; 1st printing].

Creator/production credits

Luo Fengxian is named as the painter: it is a female name

Reference

Wellcome Collection 660903i

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