文摘
Taiwan was liberated from its fifty year Japanese colonization in 1945. In 1949,an estimated 1.5 million Chinese migrants retreated to Taiwan along with Chiang Kai-sheks Nationalist government,due to the defeat to the Chinese Communists. During the subsequent two decades,the Nationalist government utilized cultural propaganda to assist the political anti-Communist campaigns to retake Mainland China. Thus,scholars in Taiwan and abroad have long regarded these anti-Communist pieces as nothing more than political manipulation. This dissertation offers a social and cultural study of anti-Communist propaganda during the 1950s and 1960s. In this dissertation,I examine visual and verbal representations of propaganda---plays,films,comic strips,documentaries,and textbook illustrations. These representations were intended to generate hatred toward Communist enemies,and alleviate the nostalgia of Chinese migrants. I propose that anti-Communist propaganda helped the Nationalist government to craft a China in concepts of `nation,leader,gender,class and ethnicity. It was an absent China that had never existed in Taiwan.