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
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.
- Date
- July 17, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (Asian poster series)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Techniques
- Card stackingFear appeal
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NAID 5729932); image copy via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of State / U.S. Information Agency. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729932). Item page: Use Restriction Unrestricted.
Text on the object
意滿 自由人民 合力建設 自由世界 厭惡
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).
