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
- Date
- March 26, 1952
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East 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, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, March 26, 1952. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949095, 306-PPB-188).
Text on the object
出賣民族 的罪人。 往蘇聯 祖宗之位 人民 中華民國
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.
