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Fan Jiang xiaye yaoqiu shimin hui (A meeting of citizens calling on Chiang to resign)

Title: Fan Jiang xiaye yaoqiu shimin hui (A meeting of citizens calling on Chiang to resign)
Artist: Asahi Shimbun
Created: 10 September 1938
Media: Photograph
Source: Asahi News Archive (c) Asahi Shimbun
Notes:

Images of these effigies, produced and paraded through the Chinese city of Jinan in the autumn of 1938, were reproduced in both the Japanese and Chinese print media and were even reproduced as postcards. The banner on Chiang's chest reads 'Chiang Kai-shek who brings calamities upon the country and people'