Artist: Gao Jifang
Year: 1955
Publisher: Hubei People's Publishing House
Size (mm): 540x770
Condition: good, creases, tears, foxing
The characters painted by the male figure read Xianfeng nongye shengchan hezuoshe 1955.7 (Pioneer Agricultural Production Cooperative, July 1955). In July 1955 Mao Zedong gave a speech concerning the need for peasant cooperatives as being the first step towards collectivisation of agriculture and the formation of People's Communes.