Free World Pictorial poster, Vol. 4 No. 1 (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)
A Chinese-language photo sheet of nine items on U.S.-Taiwan exchange and American achievement. Pictures show a Chinese broadcast engineer trained in the United States, a Chinese-born physicist receiving an award, a gospel quartet touring the Far East, long rows of missile bodies on a factory line, packing of Taiwan oranges for export, a woman reading in a U.S. bookstore, a ballet scene and a Taiwan student with an architecture model. The tell is card-stacking: only favourable items on U.S. cooperation are chosen.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- May 19, 1959
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Dept. IIEP), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series; USIS Taiwan imprint
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Science and technology, Media and information
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, May 19, 1959. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949148, 306-PPB-230b).
Text on the object
自由世界畫報 卷四 1 臺灣美國新聞處編印 中華民國四十八年三月一日出版 技術指導 傑出的女科學家 文化交流 台產椪柑外銷 年青的建築師 載歌載舞
Free World Pictorial Volume 4, No. 1 Compiled and printed by the United States Information Service, Taiwan Published 1 March, Republic of China year 48 Technical guidance An outstanding woman scientist Cultural exchange Taiwan ponkan oranges for export A young architect Singing and dancing
Only the masthead, issue line, imprint and photo-caption headings are transcribed; the body captions are partly illegible at this resolution and are not transcribed verbatim.
