Poster depicting Chinese mother and child welcoming Japanese troops to occupied Beijing.

Description

Poster depicting Chinese mother and child welcoming Japanese troops to occupied Beijing.

Ertong xin leyuan, Zhong-Ri chang qinshan (New paradise for children; China and Japan will forever be close)

This poster, almost certainly produced with the aim of encouraging civilians in occupied Beijing to embrace Japanese rule, includes many of the standard tropes of early occupied north China propaganda: a “new woman” with a male child; city walls; Japanese soldiers fraternising with Chinese infants; the “five-coloured flag” (wuseqi); and a sky filled with Japanese airplanes.

Date

circa December 1937

Artist/Creator

Anon

Medium

Poster

Case Studies

Japanese-occupied China
(1937 – 1945)

Keywords

airplane, army, cheongsam, children, city walls, flag, women

Further information

Further Reading

Jeremy E. Taylor, “Gendered Archetypes of Wartime Occupation: ‘New Women’ in Occupied North China, 1937–40”, Gender & History 28.3 (2016): 660-686.

Source

British Museum

Source Reference Details

Japanese Collections: 2006, 0117, 0.1–109

Permissions/Acknowledgements

© The Trustees of the British Museum

COTCA Identifier

BM-0001

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