Through the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) Mao Zedong aimed to reinvigorate Communism in China and eliminate traditional urban class differences. The peasant in this typical trio of worker/soldier/peasant is older than his comrades, indicating the wisdom to be learned from peasant society. A 'saturation campaign' of visual propaganda was a primary vehicle for disseminating the new ideologies. Themes and forms were rigidly prescribed and the idealised figures were often copied from source books. This poster conforms to a style described as 'red, bright, shining' (hong, guang, liang).