---
title: '"英雄黄继光" (Hero Huang Jiguang), Shanghai poster'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hero-huang-jiguang-poster-china-1973/
description: A soldier in a fur cap and field jacket, a badge on his chest, lunges forward through smoke and flying debris toward a bunker slit at the lower left.
section: Collection
---

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[!["英雄黄继光" (Hero Huang Jiguang), Shanghai poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hero-huang-jiguang-poster-china-1973.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hero-huang-jiguang-poster-china-1973.jpg)

# "英雄黄继光" (Hero Huang Jiguang), Shanghai poster

A soldier in a fur cap and field jacket, a badge on his chest, lunges forward through smoke and flying debris toward a bunker slit at the lower left. The only text is the red title 'Hero Huang Jiguang'. One named martyr's image carries the whole message with no argument attached, so his prestige is lent to the viewer's sense of duty (transfer).

## Text on the object

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

```
英雄黄继光
```

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

```
Hero Huang Jiguang
```

A small printed colophon and a pencilled note at the lower right are illegible at this resolution and omitted; the black-and-white museum scale bar and label are not part of the object.

[← Mao portrait and Party slogan on the Beijing airport terminal, Nixon arrival, 21 February 1972](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/beijing-airport-mao-portrait-party-slogan-nixon-arrival-1972/) [U.S. out of S.E. Asia now! Stop racism! Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, Washington, D.C. →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sds-us-out-of-se-asia-inauguration-day-1973/)

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