Rent Collection Courtyard - 1970 Chinese Communist Propaganda

Rent is gettin' crazy these days, hmm. "This grand exhibition of life-size clay figures takes its setting from the former rent collection courtyard of Liu Wen-tsai, a landlord despot of Tayi County, Szechuan Province in southwestern China. It recreates a profound, vivid and truthful picture of the raging class struggle in old China's countryside. The sculptures - arranged in six scenes - are the work of a group of revolutionary Chinese art workers who completely immersed themselves in worker, peasant life. They angrily condemn the feudal landlord class in old China for its heinous crimes of ruthless exploitation and oppression of the peasants; they deeply reflect the fierce class struggle waged by hundreds of millions of Chinese peasants under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party ... to overthrow the merciless rule of the feudal landlord class and capture power for the people. Rent Collection Courtyard is a striking example of sculpture serving the workers, peasants and soldiers and socialism. It is a brilliant achievement of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and a victory for great Mao Tsetung Thought." - Rent Collection Courtyard: Sculptures of Oppression and Revolt - Chinese Communist Party Published 1970, Foreign Languages Press, Peking Softcover. Approx 9x10in. 66pp. Cover is kind of beat up (see photos). But the interior images are crisp and clean. A classic work of Chinese Communist Party artistic propaganda from the latter years of Mao Zedong.