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title: The Last Days of the Devils (Chinese poster distributed in Taiwan)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/last-days-of-the-devils-chinese-1950s/
description: A Chinese-language colour print by a Taitung student shows a large red-robed, bearded figure in the style of the folk demon-queller Zhong Kui driving
section: Collection
---

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# The Last Days of the Devils (Chinese poster distributed in Taiwan)

A Chinese-language colour print by a Taitung student shows a large red-robed, bearded figure in the style of the folk demon-queller Zhong Kui driving a sword through a prone green demon while a second green demon with a sickle points at him. The demons carry the labels 'Zhu Mao' and a Korean-communist label. The tell is name-calling by imagery, communist leaders drawn as demons, with transfer from a folk exorcist figure and a UN-like globe emblem on his robe.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
妖魔的末日
[read right to left; printed in sheet order as 日末的魔妖]
朱毛
韓共
台灣省立台東中學學生
吳明修繪
[typed English label on pink strip:] THE LAST DAYS OF THE DEVILS
```

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

```
The Last Days of the Demons. Zhu-Mao [Zhu De and Mao Zedong]. Korean Communists [as read; rotated]. Student of Taiwan Provincial Taitung Middle School. Drawn by Wu Ming-xiu.
```

Title is printed right to left; the loincloth character order on the lower demon is rotated and the reading 韓共 is not certain.

[← Korea: Nasa Pagtangkilik ng Nagkakaisang Bansa! (Korea: Under the Protection of the United Nations!) (Tagalog poster distributed in the Philippines or Asia)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/korea-under-un-protection-tagalog-1950s/) [Operations: Help Juan (English poster, a Jaycee project, distributed in the Philippines) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/operations-help-juan-jaycee-philippines-1950/)

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