El término dazibao (chino tradicional: 大字報, chino simplificado: 大字报, pinyin: dàzìbào, literalmente "periódico a grandes caracteres") es utilizado para designar un tipo de periódico manuscrito usando caracteres chinos de gran tamaño. Constituían afiches redactados por un ciudadano común con un tema político o moral y pegados en muros para ser leídos por el público. El término correcto es "dazibao" aunque, a veces, se escribe "dacibao", que respeta mejor las reglas ortográficas del español. La expresión de la opinión pública por medio de afiches es una tradición que se remonta a la China imperial. Algunos viajeros cuentan que los ciudadanos descontentos escribían o imprimían afiches para criticar al gobierno del magistrado imperiales, los cuales eran pegados en la ciudad e incluso delante del tribunal, sede de la magistratura. Luego, el pueblo se reunía en torno a los afiches para comentarlos. Los dazibaos se hicieron más comunes cuando las tasas de alfabetización se incrementaron después de la revolución de 1911. También incorporaron periodos de circulación limitadas y panfletos que se pretendía estuvieran desplegados públicamente.

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Big-character posters (simplified Chinese: 大字报; traditional Chinese: 大字報; pinyin: dàzìbào; Wade–Giles: ta4-tzu4-pao4; literally: "big-character reports") are handwritten, wall-mounted posters using large-sized Chinese characters, used as a means of protest, propaganda, and popular communication. They have been used in China since imperial times, but became more common when literacy rates rose after the Xinhai Revolution. They have also incorporated limited-circulation newspapers, excerpted press articles, and pamphlets intended for public display. A key trigger in the Cultural Revolution was the publication of a dàzìbào on May 25, 1966, by Nie Yuanzi (聂元梓/聶元梓) and others at Peking University, claiming that the university was controlled by bourgeois anti-revolutionaries. The poster came to the attention of Mao Zedong, who had it broadcast nationally and published in the People's Daily. Dazibao became a crucial tool in Mao's struggle during the Cultural Revolution, and Mao himself wrote his own dazibao at Beijing University on August 5, 1966, calling on the people to "Bombard the Headquarters". Big-character posters were soon ubiquitous, used for everything from sophisticated debate to satirical entertainment to rabid denunciation; being attacked in a big-character poster was enough to end one's career. One of the "four great rights" in the 1975 state constitution was the right to write dàzìbào. Big-character posters sprouted again during the Democracy Wall Movement, starting in 1978; one of the most famous was The Fifth Modernization, whose bold call for democracy brought instant fame to its author, Wei Jingsheng.

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