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title: Contentment and Loathing (Chinese two-panel poster)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/contentment-and-revulsion-chinese-1953/
description: A two-panel Chinese-language poster split on a diagonal. Above, a smiling father, mother, baby and two playing children under the title 'contented'…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Poster panel showing a soldier in a red-star cap beating a small child, kept whole. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Contentment and Loathing (Chinese two-panel poster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/contentment-and-revulsion-chinese-1953.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/contentment-and-revulsion-chinese-1953.jpg)

# Contentment and Loathing (Chinese two-panel poster)

A two-panel Chinese-language poster split on a diagonal. Above, a smiling father, mother, baby and two playing children under the title 'contented'; below, a soldier in a red-star cap beats a small child under 'loathing'. The seal 'free people jointly build a free world' names the sponsor's side. Two single scenes stand for whole societies, so the poster argues by selection.

## Text on the object

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

```
意滿

自由人民
合力建設
自由世界

厭惡
```

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

```
Contented [read right to left: 滿意, 'satisfied']

Free people / jointly build / a free world

Loathing [厭惡, 'revulsion']
```

The top title is set left to right as 意滿, which reads right to left as 滿意. The red-bordered seal at left reads in three columns, right to left: 自由人民 / 合力建設 / 自由世界. FRAME translation (machine, not fluent-reader verified).

[← 拒否権！ (Veto! Only the Soviet Union rejects Japan's UN application)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kyohiken-soviet-veto-japan-un-poster-1953/) [成功 / 失敗 (Success / Failure), U.S. two-panel poster →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/success-and-failure-two-panel-usia-poster-1953/)

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- [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd.
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