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title: 思想是和平的力量 (Ideas are a power for peace) (Chinese poster distributed in Asia)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ideas-a-power-for-peace-chinese-1952/
description: A photo-set poster on the US international student exchange programme. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
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# 思想是和平的力量 (Ideas are a power for peace) (Chinese poster distributed in Asia)

A photo-set poster on the US international student exchange programme. Photographs show a student reading law books, a woman doctor examining an infant, a researcher in a greenhouse, a violinist with a pianist, and two Korean exchange students at Columbia University. The text says students from seventy countries study in the US and return with mutual respect and free democratic life. The tell is glittering-generalities, with named exchange students as testimonial.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

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

```
思想
是和平的力量

學生們研習公共行政與國際協議之基本原理。

自由世界的國家，為了建立世界和平，彼此貢獻其所知，各盡所能，各取所需。在美國國際人員交換的計劃之下，有來自七十個不同國家的學生在美國的教育機構中學習。此舉可消除彼此之誤解與隔閡。各生歸國更可促進各國間之互尊互敬與自由民主生活之推行。

學生們研習衛生，社會福利及最新醫學方法之應用。

學生們從事科學試驗以改良農業生產。

他們繼續音樂與美術方面的活動，發掘別國的文化傳統。

韓國的李采松與李基鴻是哥倫比亞大學的交換生。
```

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

```
Ideas
are a power for peace

Students study the basic principles of public administration and international agreements.

The nations of the free world, in order to build world peace, contribute to one another what they know, each doing what it can and taking what it needs. Under the American international exchange of persons programme, students from seventy different countries are studying in American educational institutions. This can remove mutual misunderstanding and estrangement. Students returning home can further promote mutual respect among nations and the practice of free democratic life.

Students study hygiene, social welfare and the application of the newest medical methods.

Students conduct scientific experiments to improve agricultural production.

They continue their activities in music and art and explore the cultural traditions of other countries.

Li Cai-song and Li Ji-hong of Korea are exchange students at Columbia University.
```

Names of the Korean students are rendered phonetically and the reading is uncertain.

[← "Was hast du für den Frieden getan?": backdrop quoting Anna Seghers at the 3rd German Writers' Congress, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-writers-congress-seghers-peace-quote-1952/) [Partners in Crime (Chinese poster distributed in Asia) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/partners-in-crime-chinese-1952/)

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