Fun with graphics in Chinese history
If you do Republican period Chinese history you know that the various versions of the Chinese state loved graphical representations of data. (This may be someth...
Category: Propaganda
For my next impression, Josephine Owens!
This is a cover from the Shanghai magazine Modern Sketch. If you want to learn more about the magazine, you can go here. What I find interesting about this cove...
Women and jewlery
Here is a great picture of Madame Chiang Kai-shek via Getty it’s an interesting picture, at least for me, since it ties in with a couple of interesting t...
Heroes and big swords in Shanghai
The 1932 Shanghai War produced its share of heroes, since any war needs heroes, both for domestic and foreign consumption. I just found two stories of a Chinese...
When desperate to stabilize the currency
I encountered these pages when I was flipping through a thick, unsorted bunch of materials regarding the industrial campaigns that the youth associations conduc...
License to Hunt Japanese
John Dower’s book War Without Mercy does a great job at talking about, and showing images of the many ways that race played a role in the propaganda and d...