I do alot of the same with propaganda posters, but I have never used a chinese one. I usualy use old WWII poster that I how images of or, US posters during the war. Is there a particular poster you think is the most effective in proving your point?

This site is a great resource for viewing Chinese propaganda posters over the years:

http://chineseposters.net/gallery/

Good Manzano compare and contrast opportunity here for looking at both 20th century Communist Propaganda posters and 18th century American Revolution illustrations. Students could identify the targeted audiences and desired responses to looking at these images. Perception Is Reality would actually make for a good theme for a lesson on this. Students could then be asked to create their own posters illustrations. A good standard illustration used in fifth grade is Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre and the quick spreading of this image throughout the colonies due to Franklin's efficient postal service throughout the colonies. Nice compare and contrast opportunity here between two very different Revolutions using propaganda imagery

I will be suing propaganda poster when we get tot he unit on the Civil War, and I will make connections as to way other countries like China use them. If any one has any suggetions or recommendations , I will greatly appreciate it.

Please identify particular posters and the topics you might address with them. Here's one to get you thinking:

This one is about learning from Lei Feng, a figure heralded by Mao in 1963. (See: http://chineseposters.net/gallery/e15-165.php ). Lei Feng is still with us. I snapped a picture in Chengdu of a poster featuring him two weeks ago. Other examples of Lei Feng posters are available at the same site: http://chineseposters.net/gallery/theme-15.php. Here's an essay about Lei Feng's legend: http://www.newyorker.com/news/evan-osnos/fact-checking-a-chinese-hero.

This session we had the opportunity to see several images of Chinese Propaganda and it was amazing. I think that Mao Zedong had great ideas of how to deliver his ideas to the people, in an easy and simple way, using images that describe important aspects of progress of the nation by the three main groups of people, peasants, soldiers and farmers, working all together .