Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 8: Taiping barracks (Chinese photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A photograph of the interior of a long thatched-roof barrack hall, with two rows of tables and bunks, each with boots, kit and bedding laid out. The Chinese caption says the Taiping barracks are sound, clean and tidy. The tell is card-stacking: one inspected, ordered interior is offered as the whole picture of barrack life, with no occupants or other conditions shown.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 3, 1953
- 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
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- 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 (NAID 1767935), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, September 3, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730030, 306-PPA-129).
Text on the object
今日之馬來亞 畫片'D'套 聯合邦武裝部隊 太平的兵營宿舍是健全的, 清潔而整齊. [8]
Today's Malaya Picture Set 'D' Federation Armed Forces The barracks dormitories at Taiping are sound, clean and tidy. [8]
