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Detail from a Chinese poster for Revolutionary Contemporary Ballet’s The Red Detachment of Women (1971). The accompanying text announced that “In order to liberate the tens of thousands of people who are suffering, brave, vibrant, high-spirited women soldiers with guns in their hands train hard to develop skills to kill the enemy.”

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