Creator: Unknown Title: Warrior of Steel Armed with Chairman Mao Thought – Mai Xiande (毛泽东思想武装的钢铁战士——麦贤得) Date: 1966 Extent: 1 colour poster Format: Poster Image ID: F8138 Rights Info: No known restrictions on access Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5

Publisher: PLA Pictorial Press (解放军画报社) Imprint: Beijing, February 1966

The poster captures the first two of a series of captioned images printed single-sided in pairs on loose, large-format pages, which are suited to posting for public reading. This series tells of the heroism of Mai Xiande 麦贤得, a young naval recruit, in a battle against Chinese Nationalist forces in 1965.

Page two, on the right side of this poster, is "The General Political Department Appeals to All Soldiers to Learn from the Warrior of Steel Mai Xiande" (总政治部号召全军向钢铁战士麦贤得学习)":

"The People's Liberation Army General Political Department issues this announcement to appeal to all officials and soldiers to learn from Mai Xiande. (中国人民解放军总政治部发出通知，号召全军广大指战员学习麦贤得。)

To learn from Comrade Mai Xiande, we need: (学习麦贤得同志，我们应当要:)

1. to study and apply the works of Chairman Mao in a lively way with deep class consciousness, placing extreme effort on the term "apply". In any work and under any circumstance, we should follow the guide of Chairman Mao. We shall earnestly practice Chairman Mao's teachings of "serving the people whole-heartedly," "proceeding in all cases from the interests of the people," "utter devotion to others without any thought of self," and "enduring hardship precedes enjoying comforts." When the interests of the people are in need, we should give all of ourself without any hesitation. (带着深厚的阶级感情活学活用毛主席著作，在“用”字上狠下功夫。在一切工作中，在任何情况下，都要按照毛主席的指示办事。把毛主席关于全心全意为人民服务、一切从人民的利益出发的教导，毫不利己、专门利人、吃苦在前、享受在后的教导，身体力行，孜孜不息，在人民的利益需要的时候，毫不犹豫地献出自己的一切。)

2. to treat the revolutionary work, military service, and bloodshed and sacrifice in the battle as ways of meeting the obligation of the great enterprise of communism; to have no concern over money, reward, hardship, and glory at work; and to commit the whole life willingly to becoming the proletarian "volunteer soldier" fighting for the communist enterprise. (把干革命工作，把服兵役，把战斗中流血牺牲，看作是为共产主义的伟大事业尽义务，在工作中不讲价钱，不计报酬，不畏艰险，不图荣誉，心甘情愿地当一辈子无产阶级的“义务兵”，当一辈子为共产主义事业奋斗的“义务兵”。)

3. to grip the rifle tightly and "to be ready at all times to wipe out any enemy who dares to invade us"; to be alert to any troubles made by the American Imperialism and any other reactionaries; and to carry forward the tradition of revolutionary heroism of our army, having no fear over anything but being brave, tenacious, and invincible, to eventually surmount every difficulty to win victory and trump all enemies.