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title: '世界最大的監獄 (The World''s Largest Prison), U.S. map-and-newspaper-clipping poster (catalog title: Red "Bastille")'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/worlds-largest-prison-red-bastille-usia-poster-1951/
description: A line-drawn outline of China filled with rows of faces behind barbed wire, a guard in a long coat and visored cap with fixed bayonet standing across it…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Crowds of prisoners behind barbed wire under armed guard on a map of China. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# 世界最大的監獄 (The World's Largest Prison), U.S. map-and-newspaper-clipping poster (catalog title: Red "Bastille")

A line-drawn outline of China filled with rows of faces behind barbed wire, a guard in a long coat and visored cap with fixed bayonet standing across it, and a red burst reading 'The World's Largest Prison'. At lower right sits a boxed newspaper clipping from the Hong Kong paper Wah Kiu Yat Po reporting a new prison in northern Guangdong for 18,000. One local report is put forward as the proof (testimonial) of a whole-country image of confinement (fear-appeal).

## Text on the object

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

```
世界
最大的監獄

華僑日報 WAH KIU YAT PO

中共在粵北
建巨型監獄
可容一萬八千人

（本報曲江特訊）
```

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

```
The world's / largest prison

Wah Kiu Yat Po [Overseas Chinese Daily]

The Chinese Communists build a giant prison in northern Guangdong / able to hold 18,000 people

(Special dispatch from our paper, Qujiang)
```

Red burst title, clipping masthead, clipping headline and dateline only. The clipping's body text (about eleven vertical columns) is third-party newspaper copy and is not transcribed. Translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

[← "Werbung für unsere Parteipresse": subscription-drive board, IFA tractor works, Nordhausen](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-ifa-nordhausen-party-press-board-1951/) [If Chinese Communists Flood into Vietnam (Vietnamese poster) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/devastation-caused-by-communism-vietnamese-1951/)

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