Chinese Public Health Posters

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Poster with title on top, panel of images, and text in the middle

Poster with title on top, panel of images, and text below

Poster with title on top, two images in the middle, and text on the left and right

Poster with title on top, main image in the center, smaller image in a circle, and text on right and left

Poster with title on top, three images in the middle, and text in the top right

Poster with title on top, two images to the left, and text on the right

Poster with title on top, two images to the left, and text on both the right and left

Poster with 3 horizontal panels of images and text, title on top

Poster with a series of images and text, title on top

Poster with 4 horizontal panels of images and text, title on top

Poster with 2 horizontal panels of images and text, title on top

Poster with a main image of a girl in a red dress holding a loudspeaker and waving, text below

Poster with title on top, main image in the middle, and line drawings at the bottom

Poster with a main image of a man spitting into a trash can, title, and text.

Poster with a main image of a woman cleaning a living room, title, and text.

Poster with a red background, image on top, text on the bottom

Poster with a dark blue background, two images on top showing a worker and a child spitting in spittoons, text on the bottom

Poster with a title on top, main image of a man intervening as a woman and man walk and attempt to spit on the ground, smaller images below instructing people to spit into spittoons, or into paper and then burn it

Poster with main image of a man on the street spitting into a tissue and text below

Poster with three images and text at the bottom

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睡眠: 睡要侧身勿仰勿伏, 寒不蒙頭熱不露腹 (Properly cover yourself with bedding during sleep), ca. 1935

睡眠: 睡要侧身勿仰勿伏, 寒不蒙頭熱不露腹 (Properly cover yourself with bedding during sleep), Ministry of Education, ca. 1935

This poster, teaching the importance of covering one’s body during sleep, shows a young boy covering his abdomen in hot weather and covering his whole body in cold weather.

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Poster with title on top, panel of images illustrating hand hygiene, and text in the middle

To help prevent the spread of disease, Chinese public health posters targeted children and taught the basics of personal hygiene and other healthy habits. This poster series produced by the Chinese Ministry of Education, ca. 1935, illustrates the importance of oral hygiene, hand hygiene, cleaning the home, among other healthy habits.