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Jiangjia de xiao chaoting de fumo (The fall of the Chiang family dynasty)

Title: Jiangjia de xiao chaoting de fumo (The fall of the Chiang family dynasty)
Artist: Lu Mang 蘆芒
Created: c. 1945-9
Media: Lithograph
Source: Jiangsu jiefangqu huaxuan (Images from the Liberated areas of Jiangsu) (Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 1962)
Notes:

An unusual instance of Civil-War era anti-Chiang artwork from Jiangsu (much of the surviving imagery from the late 1940s is found in sources originating in North China), which shows a comic but far from sinister Chiang surrounded by family members as he realises his fate.

Lu Mang was the pen name of a Shanghai-born man of letters called Li Yanhua (李衍華). Li was associated with the New Fourth Army.