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
- Date
- June 10, 1952
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, , retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, June 10, 1952. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729930, 306-PPA-30).
Text on the object
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
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.
