成功 / 失敗 (Success / Failure), U.S. two-panel poster
A two-panel Chinese-language poster split on a diagonal. Upper panel, titled 'Success': a schoolboy with a satchel, a young man receiving a rolled diploma from a bespectacled man, and a large smiling face in a mortarboard. Lower panel, titled 'Failure': a ragged bearded man with a red star on his cap crawling toward a distant lake. A seal reads 'Free people jointly build a free world'. A graduation scene is set against a ragged crawling figure, with no place or figure given (card-stacking).
- Date
- August 3, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front
- Event
- Cold War
- Techniques
- Card stacking
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from U.S. National Archives, RG 306, NAID 5730088), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; Commons PD-USGov, NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730088, 306-PPA-189).
Text on the object
成功 失敗 自由人民 合力建設 自由世界
Success Failure Free people / jointly build / a free world
Title lettering in white; seal in red and white with lines read right to left. Translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
