Sarah Paine

And I'll go through each three, all three.

What you see here,

is a propaganda poster.

It's a wood block print.

That's the medium.

And it's a very easy way to reproduce pictures back in the day.

The message is about a model laborer, this always emulate Wu Man You, lucky us, and to do all the nice things he does with whatever is going on there.

So that's what that is.

Now,

messengers were the delivery system, the broadcasting system for the Communist Party.

So you've got the Communist Party, but you've got to reach an audience.

And that's what these messengers are doing.

And so they go into local areas and they identify local

grievances for attention by the Communist Party, which when it fixes them or fixes somebody, that will generate loyalties and allegiance.

So these propaganda personnel would be identifying local bullies to come in and deal with them, organize mass rallies.

During battles, they're going to double as medics.

After battles, they're going to propagandize POWs.

Between battles, they are helping on troop morale.

But what they're really doing is reporting back to Communist Central exactly what's going on.

And civil and military messengers differ.