China: [ca 1955]. A set consisting of 4 oblong village scenes in a paper folder. The actual paper cuts are 10 1/2 long by 4 7/8 inches tall and each is a different single color (red, blue, green) and each contains numerous figures - approximately 10 figures in each scene, men, women, children, animals. One scene is of a group of women with a young woman pushing a bicycle and perhaps sharing some news with the others, another is a line of mothers and children in outdoor clinic with the first receiving an inoculation - wonderful detail - fishing poles, abacus, a playful puppy, a baby on a the mothers back - Each is laid on a slightly larger piece of white paper with a tissue overlay to protect the papercut and all are in a printed paper folder which reproduces a segment of the scene from the clinic, lettering in Chinese and English. Elaborate village scenes like these seem to be uncommon. Not dated, and not signed but the village scenes seem to be an example of propaganda from the early years of the People's Republic of China, and in general, these seem quite different from the modern papercuts currently being produced. All of these have a thin outer border of paper with the design within this frame.