Hunter Collection

The Hunter Collection consists of mass education material, directories and guidebooks published in Hong Kong and in Mainland China, particularly Shanghai, in the years 1947-1954 and collected by Edward Hunter. 

The mass education material includes several hundred cartoon books, pamphlets, postcards, and magazines, heavily pictorial in content, on such topics as foreign threats to Chinese security, Chinese relations with the Soviet Union, industrial and agricultural production, and marriage reform. The items were produced by both Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist) and Communist regimes, and appear to be directed at the general youth and adult populations of China.

These items can be viewed in CRL's digital collection, Chinese pamphlets: Political communication and mass education in the early period of the People's Republic of China.

Publisher: 
Hunter, Edward (collector)
Temporal Coverage: 
1947--54