18. The Henan Famine: A woman refugee. Note the contrast between her emaciated face and the chubby baby behind her: families tried to look after their children as best they could.
19. Sha Fei – ‘Flying Sand’ – was a left-wing photojournalist who joined the Communists in Yan’an. Influenced by Robert Capa and Cartier-Bresson, he became famous for the thousands of action photos he took of the Communists at war as well as his portraits of Communist leaders.
20. Sha Fei’s portrayal of a Communist guerrilla hiding in a crop field.
21. The aftermath of bombing in Chongqing, November 1941.
22. A street scene in ravaged Chongqing. The most basic things were very hard work.
23. Photojournalist Harrison Forman visited Yan’an in 1944. This is a his portrait of a militiaman holding a landmine.
24. Song Meiling, Madame Chiang Kaishek, at the Hollywood Bowl, June 1943. This pageant, meant to showcase America’s favourite Asian other, was organised by David Selznick of Gone with the Wind fame.
25. Japan’s surrender to China, Nanjing, 9 September, 1945. General Okamura Yasuji affixes his seal to the surrender document.
26. The Communist entrance into Beijing, February 1949. The sign on the army truck reads ‘Congratulations on the Liberation of Beijing’. Note the portrait of Mao Zedong on top of the truck.
27. Japanese propaganda poster of around 1938 entitled ‘Look. Look. The Cruel Slaughter by the Communist Party’. Cheered on by people waving Japanese flags, the Japanese army roots out the communist devil, masquerading as peace, and communist armed forces ransacking the countryside. The soldiers holds a moneybag on which is written ‘Military funds received from the Red Russians’.
28. Poster by Xu Ling, circa 1950. The text reads ‘The Chinese People Absolutely Cannot Condone Foreign Aggression and Cannot Allow Any Imperialist to Inflict Brutal Aggression on Their Own Neighbour’. General Douglas MacArthur kills a Korean person cradling a child while the US air force bombs Chinese cities.
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