| Here, a female health worker urges people to practice family limitation.
Although Mao had encouraged population growth in previous decades, by
the 1970s, the government was struggling with the problem of overpopulation.
Birth control became an issue of national importance and indicated revolutionary
spirit. Obviously popular, this poster was first printed in March and
had gone into a fourth printing by August. The smaller pictures depict
women involved in various revolutionary tasks, including raising a single
child to be healthy and patriotic. This image of a mother and a single
child foreshadows the one-child policy initiated in 1980. |
