Dui Ri kangzhan zhi molu (The dead end to the war against the Japanese)
Title: | Dui Ri kangzhan zhi molu (The dead end to the war against the Japanese) |
Artist: | Unknown |
Created: | c. 1937 |
Media: | poster (ink on paper) |
Source: | Hoover Institution Archives. 78064. David Nelson Rowe Papers, Box 10. |
Notes: | This poster dated from shortly after the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 depicts a Chiang Kai-shek crumbling under the pressure of Japanese military strength and burning in the flames of the 'Red Peril'. KMT officials clad in black are shown fleeing Nanjing, while a liberated 'north China' radiates with hope. The depiction of Chiang is significant in that many of the attributes later associated with Chiang in wartime propaganda are yet to appear. |