{"id":6212,"date":"2019-04-08T22:25:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T22:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccposters.com\/?p=6212"},"modified":"2019-04-08T22:36:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T22:36:59","slug":"hist-241-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccposters.com\/zh\/hist-241-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"HIST 241 Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Evil Drug<\/h3>

In the poster, there is a syringe needle holding a person\nwith a chain around their neck. The needle is gripping the chain. The person is\nalso holding a separate needle and they are currently injecting themselves in\nthe arm with the needle. The picture consists of just the person and the needle\nwith words all over the poster. The caption talks about how injecting morphine\nis bad for a person and that it will destroy your body. In the poster, the\ncondition of the person is seen through the fact that there are bruises on their\narms and the rib bone lines are seen explicitly. In the caption, it is\nsuggested that injecting oneself with morphine is worse than opium. I find this\ninteresting because opium was a huge problem in China\u2019s history. There was even\na huge war about the issue of opium in the country. This image relates in a\nhistorical context through the fact that we have learned what the Chinese\noutlook is towards drugs. They are seen in a negative light. <\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

The poster was also made by the Baptist Publication Society.\nThe content in the poster makes sense because to the missionaries in China,\nusing opium was bad because it would disobey God\u2019s commands. One way the missionaries\ncould help fulfill God\u2019s plan was to lead people into converting. Before missionaries\nwere banned in China, many helped to take in orphans. These types of stories\nare related to the Ho reading; it is the same how the Henke\u2019s took in Ai Jung.   <\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

I think that this poster is effective because it is trying\nto prove to the viewer that injecting yourselves with drugs is not the way to\nlive life. It can control your life which is why the big needle is holding the\nhuman with a chain. The human is practically a slave to the needle. From\nobserving other posters from the publisher (Baptist Publication Society), they\nhave a collection of posters that try to let the viewers know that some social\nactivities are dangerous and control people lives. The people in the collection\nof the poster are attached to an evil spirit by a chain, meaning that they wanted\nto show that people who follow these things are unable to control their lives. Their\nposters want people to know the bad side of people continue to do these social\nactivities. A question that I have about the poster is if the poster was made\nat a different time or at a time where there wasn\u2019t much of a social negative\naspect towards opium, outside of the views of Christian missionaries, would\nopium still be seen as that bad? Like if this poster wasn\u2019t made with a Christian\nperspective before a lot of the population was addicted to opium, would this have\naffected how opium would be used? <\/p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Three Principles of People<\/h3>

In the photo are three people: a farmer, politician, and a\nsoldier. They are standing near each other where they are holding different\nthings. The farmer is holding farm tools, the soldier is holding the world, and\nthe politician is holding a sheet of paper. In the poster they are standing on\na pathway in front of what seems like a factory that is by the mountain. Each\nperson represents something. The farmer represents the livelihood of people,\nthe politician represents democracy, and the soldier represents nationalism. <\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

From my takeaway of the poster, I think these three people\nare supposed to represent China as a whole. The elements of the poster show the\nmodernization of China. The poster can also represent Sun Yatsen\u2019s Three Principles\nof People through the representation of nationalism, democracy, and the livelihood\nof the people. The farmer is holding tools that I think are in the symbol of\ncommunism, which is interesting because Sun Yatsen pushed for socialism. The\npeople are wearing modern clothing, not traditional clothing. After Sun had\nmoved to Western places, he became more towards western standards and the\nclothing in the poster helps to show the perspective that Sun wanted. He paid\nattention to the way government was run in those areas and believed that being\nmore progressive is what China needed. <\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

The poster was made by National Revolutionary Army Headquarters-\nOffice of Politics and this poster was probably made by this organization\nbecause during this time, the First United Front was trying to find a way to\nchange the infrastructure in China\u2019s government. They wanted to bring socialism\nto the people. I think that they wanted to show the people in China what they\ncould be if the shift were to happen. They wanted to show how being traditional\nis boring and modernization is what is needed to be a force to be reckoned\nwith. Also, at this time, the economy in China wasn\u2019t progressing the way that\nit should have. <\/span><\/p>