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Ba hongqi chadao Taiwan (Plant the red flag on Taiwan)

Title: Ba hongqi chadao Taiwan (Plant the red flag on Taiwan)
Artist: Unknown
Created: 1958 (September)
Media: Book cover
Source: Ba hongqi chadao Taiwan (Shanghai: Shanghai wenhua chubanshe, 1958)
Notes:

A typical late-1950s PRC image of Chiang adorns the cover of this collection of anti-Chiang songs published in Shanghai. An American GI rides a crawling Chiang as both try to avoid the muscular hand of the Chinese masses from planting a red flag on the Nationalist leader's island. The book was published at the time of the Second Taiwan Straits Crisis (1958), and this conflict is clearly alluded to in the inclusion of a depiction of the southern China coast on the book's cover.