Stefan Landsberger


Stefan Landsberger was a Dutch sinologist who served as Olfert Dapper Professor of Contemporary Chinese Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He was also known for his collection of Chinese propaganda posters, his publications and his website Chineseposters.net.

Education

Landsberger studied Sinology at Leiden University. His MA thesis was titled "After the Bumper Harvest”: China's Socialist Education Movement as seen through short stories from the Sixties. His PhD was titled "Visualizing the Future: Chinese Propaganda Posters from the ‘Four Modernizations’ Era, 1978-1988".

Career

After working as a researcher on several projects on modern China at the Sinological Institute, Leiden in the 1990s, Landsberger became an associate professor in the Dept of Chinese Studies in 1996.

Selected publications

Beijing Garbage - A City Besieged by Waste. ISBN 9789048542871Chinese Posters - The IISH/Landsberger Collections.Paint it red – Fifty years of Chinese Propaganda Posters.Chinese Propaganda Posters – From Revolution to Modernization.
  • “Die Vergötterung Maos: Bilder und Praktiken in der Kulturrevolution und darüber hinaus”, in Helmut Opletal Die Kultur der Kulturrevolution - Personenkult und politisches Design im China von Mao Zedong, pp. 93–103.
  • “National Image Management Begins at Home: Imagining the New Olympic Citizen”, in Jian Wang, Soft Power in China - Public Diplomacy through Communication, pp. 117–133..
  • “Harmony, Olympic Manners and Morals – Chinese Television and the ‘New Propaganda’”. European Journal of East Asian Studies 8, pp. 331-355.
  • “Encountering the European and Western Other in Chinese Propaganda Posters”, in Michael Wintle, Images of Europe: Europe and European civilization as seen from its margins and by the rest of the world, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, pp. 147–175.
  • “Designing Propaganda: The Business of Politics”. in H.X. Zhang & L. Parker, ChinaDesign Now, pp. 53–56.
  • “Propaganda Posters in the Reform Era: Promoting Patriotism or Providing Public Information”, in Frank Columbus, Asian Economic and Political Issues vol. 10, pp. 27–57.
  • “The Deification of Mao: Religious Imagery and Practices during the Cultural Revolution and Beyond”, in Woei Lien Chong, China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives, pp. 139–184.
  • “Learning by What Example? Educational Propaganda in Twenty-first-Century China”, Critical Asian Studies 33, pp. 541–571.
  • “Role Modelling in Mainland China During the ‘Four Modernizations’ Era: The Visual Dimension”, in Chun‑chieh Huang and Erik Zürcher, Norms and the State in China, pp. 359‑376.
  • “A Chinese Future with Western Characteristics: Chinese Visual Propaganda During the ‘Four Modernizations’ ”, in K.W. Radtke and A.J. Saich, China’s Modernisation: Westernisation and Acculturation, pp. 177–194.