Happy Holidays

The artwork features a vintage Chinese propaganda poster capturing a joyous celebration beneath a bright blue sky. A young Chinese schoolgirl with two pink hair bows stands in the foreground, wearing a vibrant pleated pink short-sleeved dress and a distinctive red Young Pioneer neckerchief. She smiles broadly while raising a lush bouquet of colorful mixed flowers high in her right hand and holding another bouquet in her left.

In the background, numerous other schoolgirls in uniform wave flowers in unison. The festive air is filled with translucent floating soap bubbles and large drifting balloons in shades of yellow, green, and pink, one of which carries a long white vertical banner adorned with red Chinese characters. The poster’s crimson title is printed cleanly along the bottom white margin.

Credit: The Claremont Colleges

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