Stefan Landsberger (1955 – 26 September 2024) was a Dutch sinologist who served as Olfert Dapper Professor of Contemporary Chinese Culture at the University of Amsterdam.
He was also known for his collection of Chinese propaganda posters, his publications and his website Chineseposters.net.
His MA thesis (1982) was titled "After the Bumper Harvest”: China's Socialist Education Movement as seen through short stories from the Sixties.
His PhD (1994) was titled "Visualizing the Future: Chinese Propaganda Posters from the ‘Four Modernizations’ Era, 1978-1988".
[citation needed] After working as a researcher on several projects on modern China at the Sinological Institute, Leiden in the 1990s, Landsberger became an associate professor in the Dept of Chinese Studies in 1996.