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
- Made by
- United China Relief (member agency of the National War Fund); artist signed Gaydos
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- NGO
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- TransferGlittering generalities
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, 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
CHINA FIGHTS ON UNITED CHINA RELIEF MEMBER AGENCY of the NATIONAL WAR FUND 抗戰建國
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.
