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Gao Shanxi jun jiangshi (A notice to the soldiers of the Shanxi Army)

Title: Gao Shanxi jun jiangshi (A notice to the soldiers of the Shanxi Army)
Artist: Shanxi sheng Zhaofu Weiyuanhui (The Shanxi Provincial Pacification Committee)
Created: c. 1938
Media: Leaflet (ink on paper)
Source: British Museum (2006,0117,0.1-109)
Notes:

This leaflet, addressing Chinese soldiers fighting the Japanese in Shanxi, depicts a wounded Chiang and his be-furred but forlorn looking wife fleeing westward on a camel loaded down with 'personal assets'. The camel train was a standard mode of transport in this region of China in the 1940s.