利便 / 阻險 (Convenience / Hardship), U.S. two-panel poster
A two-panel Chinese-language poster split on a diagonal. Upper panel, titled 'Convenience': a blue bus with a licence plate, a woman boarding, a man with a satchel, and a seal reading 'Free people jointly build a free world'. Lower panel, titled 'Hardship': two ragged men in red-star caps, one clawing along a cliff, one dangling from a rope, among bare vines. The viewer gets one best case set against one worst case; no place, year or measure is given (card-stacking).
- Date
- September 14, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front
- Event
- Cold War
- Techniques
- Card stacking
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from U.S. National Archives, RG 306, NAID 5729933), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; Commons PD-USGov, NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729933, 306-PPA-33).
Text on the object
利便 阻險 自由人民 合力建設 自由世界 BA 9031
Convenience Hardship [obstruction and peril] Free people / jointly build / a free world BA 9031 (bus licence plate)
Title lettering in white, seal in red and white; seal lines read right to left. The catalog title renders the lower title as 'Misery'. Translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
