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title: China Fights On
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/china-fights-on-united-china-relief-1943/
description: A young Chinese soldier with the Nationalist white-sun cap badge gazes upward at formations of aircraft, one marked with the Chinese roundel, above the…
section: Collection
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[![China Fights On](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/china-fights-on-united-china-relief-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/china-fights-on-united-china-relief-1943.jpg)

# China Fights On

A young Chinese soldier with the Nationalist white-sun cap badge gazes upward at formations of aircraft, one marked with the Chinese roundel, above the words 'China Fights On.' The red characters at the right read 抗戰建國 ('resist in war, build the nation'), the Nationalist government's own wartime slogan, carried here into an American fundraising poster.

- **Date:** 1943
- **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii)
- **Made by:** United China Relief (member agency of the National War Fund); artist signed Gaydos
- **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america)
- **Country:** [United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-states)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [NGO](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=ngo)
- **Regime:** [Roosevelt Administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=roosevelt-administration)
- **Leader:** [Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=franklin-d-roosevelt)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Fundraise](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=fundraise)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front)
- **Event:** [World War II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-ii)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2008678312/), retrieved September 27, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain in the U.S. (published without copyright notice; LOC: no known restrictions on publication) Gaydos for United China Relief, c. 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-13389.

## Text on the object

Original (Multiple) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
CHINA FIGHTS ON

UNITED CHINA RELIEF
MEMBER AGENCY of the NATIONAL WAR FUND

抗戰建國
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
CHINA FIGHTS ON

UNITED CHINA RELIEF
MEMBER AGENCY of the NATIONAL WAR FUND

[Chinese, read top to bottom] Resist in war, build the nation
```

Main poster text is English; the red vertical characters at right are Chinese, the Nationalist government's wartime slogan, hence 'Multiple'. The artist's signature ('Gaydos', top right) is not transcribed as body text.

[← Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/americans-will-always-fight-for-liberty-1943/) [Himmler-head forgery of the 6-pfennig Deutsches Reich stamp →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/himmler-stamp-forgery-1943/)

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