Hygiene for children in China: six figures. Colour lithograph, ca. 1970.

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<p>Top row: children washing food, washing the body, and washing and drying clothes. Bottom row, children washing hair, hands and teeth. In two of the figures, the older girl wears the red scarf of the Little Red Guards and the Young Pioneers, though otherwise the children wear bourgeois western clothes, not a uniform</p>

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Hygiene for children in China: six figures. Colour lithograph, ca. 1970.

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