Chinalbeit

Everywhere you guy in China, you see these red banners with white or yellow characters strewn all over the place.  In neighborhoods, parks, over roads, on walls, in shopping centers…you get the point.  These signs are truly ubiquitous.   They serve many uses.  Some of them are simply advertisements, like the one below advertising a film festival:

Zhengzhou Cinema Club Movie Festival

Of course, the more interesting red signs tend to be the ones that government agencies use to either diseminate information, stir up nationalist sentiment, or warn citizens against engaging in certain types of behavior.  The name for these banners in Chinese is 宣传条幅 (xuānchuán tiáofú), or literally “propaganda banners”.  However, it is important to note that the Chinese word for propaganda would more correctly translate as “dissemination”  The Chinese translation does not necessarily carry the negative connotation of the English word “propaganda.”  Following are some translated propaganda banners.

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