Propaganda cadres lead rural residents at a Rural Pacification event somewhere in Japanese-occupied China, circa 1942

Description

Propaganda cadres lead rural residents at a Rural Pacification event somewhere in Japanese-occupied China, circa 1942

Rural Pacification cadres rousing peasants

Photograph of members of the RNG Central Propaganda Group’s Number 2 Rural Pacification Propaganda Team leading a rural audience in the shouting of slogans. The photograph was possibly produced by the RNG’s Central News Agency. Note the watchtower in the background flying the Nationalist Chinese flag, suggesting this photograph was taken in a “pacified village”.

Date

circa 1942

Artist/Creator

Anon

Medium

Photograph

Theme

Rural Pacification

Case Studies

Japanese-occupied China
(1937 – 1945)

Keywords

flag, propaganda, slogan

Further information

Further Reading

David Serfass, “L’occupation Japonaise comme objet pour l’histoire de l’État Chinois: l’exemple de la campagne de pacification rurale de gouvernement de Wang Jingwei, 1941-45” (The Japanese occupation as an object for the history of the Chinese state: The example of the rural pacification campaigns of the Wang Jingwei government, 1941-45), Études Chinoises 35.2 (2016): 123-137.

Source

Imperial War Museum

Source Reference Details

HU 073375

Permissions/Acknowledgements

Imperial War Museum (Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department Second World War Photograph Library)

COTCA Identifier

IWM-0003

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