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
- Date
- 1950
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, c. 1950-55. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729982, 306-PPA-81).
Text on the object
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
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.
