Date of Award

Winter 1-13-2026

Document Type

Honors Project

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

History and American Studies

Department Chair or Program Director

Ferrell, Claudine

First Advisor

Fernsebner, Susan

Major or Concentration

History

Abstract

This research paper is an analysis of the role of propaganda posters in visualizing the changing policy of the People’s Republic of China on reunification with Taiwan. The propaganda posters were obtained through Chineseposters.net, maintained and owned by the Chinese Posters Foundation and edited by Stefan Landsberger and Marien van der Heijden, which offers over 7,000 propaganda posters that serve as a visual history of China. Of these roughly 7,000 posters, six, released from 1949-1978, was analyzed regarding their role in promoting the Chinese Communist Party’s political stance on Taiwan. Prior to the 1960s, the propaganda posters illustrate armed violence and militarism as the method to reunify with Taiwan. However, the propaganda posters created post-1960 take on a peaceful approach to reunification through diplomacy. Although propaganda posters are no longer produced as they once were, their lessons live on in the present day.

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