打死汪精衛，打死漢奸們！ (Beat Wang Jingwei to death, beat the traitors to death!), Kangweijun Pictorial vol. 1 no. 3
A line cartoon of Wang Jingwei drawn as an obese figure who salutes with a small Japanese flag held over his face, carrying on a pole four animals labelled with the names of his associates. The tell: named men are printed onto animal bodies and the flag is pasted onto the man, so 'traitor' is conveyed by labels and symbols in place of any account of what each did.
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Propaganda Section, Political Training Office, Zhejiang Provincial National Anti-Enemy Self-Defence Corps headquarters (浙江省國民抗敵自衛團總司令部政訓處宣傳科), publisher of Kangweijun Pictorial (抗衛軍畫報)
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- China
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Nanjing Nationalist Government
- Leader
- Chiang Kai Shek
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Elections and party politics
- Event
- Second Sino Japanese War
- Techniques
- Name-callingTransfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (National Library of China, Republic-era periodical collection: 抗衛軍畫報 1939年第一卷第三期), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (1939 Chinese government-office periodical; Commons PD-China; corporate term expired)
Propaganda Section, Zhejiang Provincial National Anti-Enemy Self-Defence Corps, 抗衛軍畫報 vol. 1 no. 3 (1939), p. 3; scan from the National Library of China via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
[Slogan under the drawing:] 「打死汪精衛， 打死漢奸們！」 [Labels on the four animals on the pole, from the top:] 褚民誼 / 陶[illegible]聖 / 林柏生 / 周佛海 [Artist credit, partly covered by a library stamp:] [illegible]作 [Stamps and marks not part of the design: a circular library ownership stamp, the number 642174, and the printed page number (3).]
[Slogan] "Beat Wang Jingwei to death, beat the traitors to death!" [Labels] Chu Minyi / Tao [illegible] Sheng / Lin Boshen / Zhou Fohai. [Credit] Drawn by [illegible].
Read from a 960 px page scan. The second animal's label has one obscured middle character. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader. 漢奸 (literally 'Han traitor') is the standard wartime term for collaborators.
