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Da Jiang fei (Strike the Bandit Chiang)

Title: Da Jiang fei (Strike the Bandit Chiang)
Artist: Xing Shuntian (邢舜田)
Created: June 1950
Media: ink on paper
Source: Lu Jingshan & Xing Shuntian, Da Jiang fei (Shanghai: Dadong shuju, 1950)
Notes:

This image, produced by a well-known illustrator of children's books who was active in China throughout the 1940s and 1950s, shows children defacing a snowman that has been fashioned in the image of Chiang. The book tells how the children manage to make the snowman look so much like the real Chiang kai-shek that even farmyard and domestic animals (like this dog) attack it.