I China'd hard
I’d be more nervous bringing this through TSA than I would be for a bag of weed
lol, i connected through S.Korea and i was a bit nervous having that North Korea mag in my carryon bag.
I love the little soldier figure.
Was sort of wondering how they're doing in the battle to develop adorable, merchandisable government mascots. They can't leave the space totally open to Japan!
I think the rabbit cartoon is pretty good tbh
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And obviously pandas are eternal
That one is chill as fuck, it says 'Nothing is impossible' in Chinese with a pic of Bin Laden and the smoking twin towers in the background. Got it from a random souvenir shop in Hangzhou.
here is a close up:
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You should buy a bunch of these and turn them to stickers, and whenever you see a parked car with an american flag/military sticker on it, put this on top of it
The big stuff in the middle is mostly from the propaganda poster museum in Shanghai, the lighter/matches were from a souvenir shop in Hanghzhou, most of the Mao stuff/hats/magnets were from random trinket/souvenir stores in the various cities I visited, the red paper cutout art of famous commies was from a random art stand in Shanghai. Little red books (one English, one Chinese) was from a cool book store in Zhujaijao.
It is a tote bag from the propaganda poster museum in Shanghai. The pic depicts the strong Sino-Soviet friendship at the time! Those ones are really sad in hindsight.
here is a but of info I just found on it through google, may be a reactionary source, not sure.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/chinese-soviet-propaganda-posters/
eta: yup, reactionary source lol.
I am ashamed to admit that the merch i got on my china trip mostly consists of... checks notes... hatsune miku, jjk, and sanrio merch.... oops.
