Jungna+Park+Analysis

Each group member will write a two to three paragraph explanation of your piece and how it relates to the themes of the cultural revolution on the wiki.

This drawing "China's Sun, Great Mao" is a portrayal of cult of personality in China. Mao in drawing is illustrated as the great leader, where he is the sun and life of Chinese people. The sun represents the unreachable position of Mao, where his importance and significance is highly highlighted. The sun not only represents his position but it also shows the bright future of China where Chinese flag is installed in the mountain, ensuring the citizen of China of bright future.

This relates to the cultural revolution where a lot of dazibao was used to praise Mao where it portrayed the cult of personality.The cult of personality is when a leader of a country uses media to create a heroic and god image. This picture shows the image of a god and hero where Mao is positioned in a unreachable position as the sun.This drawing shows the great manipulated image of heroic figure of China