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Keywords

Beijing , public art

Qing kan dangzei guozei minzei Jiang Zhongzheng de xingwei (Look at the behaviour of Chiang Kai-shek, traitor to the party, nation and people)

Title: Qing kan dangzei guozei minzei Jiang Zhongzheng de xingwei (Look at the behaviour of Chiang Kai-shek, traitor to the party, nation and people)
Artist: Beiping gejie tao Jiang dahui (The Beiping anti-Chiang Society)
Created: c. 1928
Media: photograph
Source: Courtesy of the F. H. Jewell Archive
Notes:

In this photograph of an anti-Chiang banner attached to a city gate in Beiping (now Beijing), Chiang is presented as a Qing emperor, his 'Nanjing wei zhengfu' (puppet Nanjing Government) shown to be resting on the backs of the army and ordinary people. Note also the depiction of Soong May-ling, who had married Chiang in 1927.

Further Reading:

F. H. Jewell Archive