Vietnam Five Thousand Years of Culture poster (Vietnamese, distributed in Saigon)
A Vietnamese-language colour chart titled 'Vietnam, five thousand years of culture'. A banyan tree stands for the country's culture: roots below carry numbered entries on language and folk traditions, the trunk and branches are labelled by dynasty and period, and the leaves carry names of writers, scholars and artists. The tell is glittering-generalities: a single flattering image of continuous national heritage, with era labels running from before the common era to 1954.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- November 14, 1957
- 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
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Themes
- Media and information, Religion
- 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, November 14, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949121, 306-PPB-213).
Text on the object
VIỆT-NAM NĂM NGÀN NĂM VĂN-HIẾN LÊ-VĂN-SIÊU trình-bày với sự cộng-tác của Họa-sĩ TỪ-DUYÊN HƯƠNG-DƯƠNG XUẤT-BẢN NGUYỄN-NHƯ-CẢNH PHÁT-HÀNH 3000 trước Tây-lịch BẮC-THUỘC (III tr. T.L. 938) THỜI LÝ (1010-1225) THỜI TRẦN THỜI LÊ (1428-1788) GIẶC MINH (1413-1427) ĐỜI HỒ (1400-1407) THỜI NGUYỄN (1802-1954) PHÁP THUỘC (1885-1954) TƯƠNG-LAI (1954) VĂN-HÓA VĂN-NGHỆ TÌNH-THẦN TAM-GIÁO ĐỒNG-NGUYÊN Tác giả giữ bản quyền [numbered labels, leaf names and root notes: illegible at this resolution]
VIETNAM FIVE THOUSAND YEARS OF CULTURE Presented by Le Van Sieu with the collaboration of the painter Tu Duyen Published by Huong Duong Distributed by Nguyen Nhu Canh 3000 before the Western calendar Northern domination (3rd c. BCE to 938) Ly period (1010-1225) Tran period Le period (1428-1788) Ming invaders (1413-1427) Ho era (1400-1407) Nguyen period (1802-1954); French domination (1885-1954) Future (1954) Culture; arts and letters Spirit of the three religions with a common origin Author reserves copyright [numbered labels illegible]
Only the title, imprint and larger period and section labels were read. Some period dates and the spelling of the 'three religions' heading are uncertain.
