昂揚東方固有之文化 (Exalt the East's Inherent Culture), Concordia Association Jinzhou leaflet

A text-only single-sheet leaflet in two vertical lines of large characters: 'Exalt the East's inherent culture' and 'Unite all the peoples of Asia'. 'Inherent culture' and unity are virtue phrases with no stated content, and no measure or group is named. The Concordia Association's Jinzhou headquarters is named at the foot.

Date: 1936
Period: Interwar
Made by: Concordia Association, Jinzhou Provincial Headquarters (滿洲帝國協和會錦州省本部), Manchukuo
Region: East Asia
Country: Manchukuo
Medium: Leaflet
Issuer type: State
Regime: Manchukuo Government
Leader: Zhang Jinghui
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Themes: Race and ethnicity, Empire and colonialism
Event: Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
Techniques: Glittering generalities
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Wikimedia Commons (scanned from National Tsing Hua University Library, Taiwan, via TELDAP), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain per Commons ({{PD-Manchukuo}}: collective work, 50-year term expired; holding-library page: access open)
Concordia Association Jinzhou Provincial Headquarters, Manchukuo; National Tsing Hua University Library (Taiwan) via TELDAP and Wikimedia Commons

Text on the object

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

[right column, vertical, large type] 昂揚東方固有之文化
[left column, vertical, large type] 團結全亞細亞民族
[foot, two lines, spaced type] 滿洲帝國
協和會錦州省本部

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

[right column] Exalt the East's inherent culture.
[left column] Unite all the peoples of Asia.
[foot] Manchukuo Empire / Concordia Association, Jinzhou Provincial Headquarters

Right column first, top to bottom; fully legible at 960 px.