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title: China Mainland Today (今日大陸) (Chinese-language cartoon poster distributed in Asia)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/china-mainland-today-chinese-1952/
description: A Chinese-language colour cartoon titled 'Mainland Today'. A large red-faced figure in a green tunic with a hammer-and-sickle badge sits on a gate marked
section: Collection
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# China Mainland Today (今日大陸) (Chinese-language cartoon poster distributed in Asia)

A Chinese-language colour cartoon titled 'Mainland Today'. A large red-faced figure in a green tunic with a hammer-and-sickle badge sits on a gate marked 'People's Government', holding a nude woman and a goblet of blood while a smaller chained figure drinks beside him. Below, caricatured soldiers whip conscripts toward signposts for Korea and Vietnam, a figure sits in a cage, and a body lies in a field; at left a soldier with the Republic of China flag stands guard. The tell is name-calling by caricature, with fear-appeal.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (Chinese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
今日大陸

牛哥 著 [artist seal]
北台、二廿、三

[gate sign] 人民政府
[signpost, right] 往朝鮮
[signpost, lower left] 往越南
[cage placard] 靠攏份子
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Mainland Today

By Niu Ge [artist seal]
Taipei, [day/month mark, as printed: 3, 22]

[gate sign] People's Government
[signpost] To Korea
[signpost] To Vietnam
[cage placard] 'Those who draw close' (elements who sided with the new regime)
```

Right-to-left headings; the date-like mark at upper left is read tentatively. The cage placard is read as printed right to left.

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