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Title: Untitled
Artist: Unknown
Created: c. 1937-8
Media: handbill (ink on paper)
Source: Institute of Defense Studies, Tokyo
Notes:

In a propaganda bill typical of the early stages of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45, and produced by the Provisional Government of the Republic of China (an early collaborationist regime based in Beijing), a skeletal Chiang is depicted as a tool of the Soviets who sacrifices Chinese soldiers while his wife and brother-in-law (T.V. Soong) divert money to British Hong Kong. The text of the bill reads: 'Ordinary people are tragically sent to the frontline while money is sent to Hong Kong. Can one really continue to not oppose such a selfish leader as this?'