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title: Selling Country and People poster, PO-107-C (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/selling-country-and-people-po-107-c-chinese-taipei-1952/
description: A Chinese-language cartoon poster, painted in a brush-and-wash style, of a scowling man in a star cap carrying a shoulder pole with a map labelled Republic
section: Collection
---

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# Selling Country and People poster, PO-107-C (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)

A Chinese-language cartoon poster, painted in a brush-and-wash style, of a scowling man in a star cap carrying a shoulder pole with a map labelled Republic of China at one end and a bound man labelled 'people' at the other, beneath a signpost 'to the Soviet Union'. The caption calls him a criminal who sells out the nation. The tell is name-calling: a Communist figure is labelled a national traitor.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/)

## Text on the object

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

```
出賣民族
的罪人。

往蘇聯

祖宗之位

人民

中華民國
```

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

```
A criminal who sells out the nation. [signpost:] Going to the Soviet Union. [tablet on his back:] Seat of the ancestors. [bound figure:] The people. [map:] Republic of China.
```

Signpost and map labels read right to left, as printed.

[← Bạn hãy gia-nhập Quân-đội Việt-Nam (You, join the Vietnamese Army) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Vietnam; NARA title: Viet Poster #2)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ban-hay-gia-nhap-quan-doi-viet-nam-vietnamese-1952/) [USIS radio poster, 'America Today' (今日美國) (Chinese-language poster distributed in Taiwan) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uscis-radio-poster-america-today-chinese-1952/)

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