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title: Free World Pictorial poster, Vol. 4 No. 8 (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/free-world-pictorial-vol4-no8-chinese-taipei-1959/
description: A Chinese-language photo sheet of about nine items. Pictures show a Costa Rican envoy and his wife welcomed in Taipei, Madame Chiang Kai-shek with Mrs.
section: Collection
---

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# Free World Pictorial poster, Vol. 4 No. 8 (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)

A Chinese-language photo sheet of about nine items. Pictures show a Costa Rican envoy and his wife welcomed in Taipei, Madame Chiang Kai-shek with Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. Herter at the White House, a visiting U.S. conductor rehearsing a Taiwan orchestra, a crate marked for the U.S. Navy section of the Military Assistance Advisory Group at Kaohsiung, a U.S. dentist's miniature carvings, Tibetan refugees reaching India and a Taipei overseas students' association. The tell is card-stacking: visits, aid shipments and refugee news are selected to support the alliance and 'free world' framing.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
自由世界畫報
卷四 8
臺灣美國新聞處編印
中華民國四十八年六月十六日出版
有朋自遠方來
蔣夫人訪問白宮
美國名指揮家指揮省交響樂團
黃仁霖將軍訪美
雕塑巧技增進牙術
西藏難民生還印度
台北國際學生協會成立
NAVY SECTION MAAG TAIWAN PORT OF KAOHSIUNG
```

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

```
Free World Pictorial
Volume 4, No. 8
Compiled and printed by the United States Information Service, Taiwan
Published 16 June, Republic of China year 48
A friend comes from afar
Madame Chiang visits the White House
Famous American conductor leads the provincial symphony orchestra
General Huang visits the U.S.
Sculpting skill improves dentistry
Tibetan refugees reach India alive
Taipei international students' association founded
[English text as printed]
```

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.

[← Free World Pictorial poster, Vol. 4 No. 7 (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/free-world-pictorial-vol4-no7-chinese-taipei-1959/) [Exhibits poster, USIS Presents (Korean poster distributed in Seoul) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/exhibits-poster-usis-presents-korean-seoul-1959/)

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