Content note: Colour woodblock caricature depicting foreign Christians as members of a 'pig' sect and showing them cutting a foetus from a woman; violence against a woman and derision of Christianity. This object is shown as it was published. Why
豬叫取胎圖 (Picture of the Pig Sect Extracting a Foetus), from Reverently Obeying the Sacred Edict: A Complete Picture Gallery to Repel Heterodoxy
A colour woodblock print shows four foreign men in green hats and dark coats cutting a foetus from a seated woman in a Chinese courtyard, under a title that calls Christianity the 'pig' sect. The staged atrocity against a woman, with margin verses urging readers to 'sweep away the heresy' and 'exterminate the devils', is the fear appeal; the pig and devil labels are the name-calling.
- Date
- 1891
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Anti-Christian literati circle of Hunan (picture set attributed to Zhou Han); no publisher named on the sheet
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Qing China
- Medium
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Qing Dynasty
- Leader
- Guangxu Emperor
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- Religion, Race and ethnicity, Health
- Event
- Anti-missionary riots, 1891
- Techniques
- Fear appealName-calling
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan of a Princeton University Library copy), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (1891; Commons tags PD-US-expired, PD-old-70, PD-old-100)
Zhou Han (周漢), 1891; scan via lib.exchristian.hk, hosted on Wikimedia Commons (page 14 of the PDF)
Text on the object
豬叫取胎圖 [left margin] 个个恨無良亡八。快掃邪滅鬼。隄防豬叫欺天。 [right margin] 人人愁不孝有三。多積善求神。保佑麟兒下地。 4 / 四 [plate number]
Picture of the Pig Sect Taking a Foetus [left margin] Everyone hates the unscrupulous wretch (亡八, a vulgar insult). Quickly sweep away the heresy, wipe out the devils, and guard against the Pig Sect insulting Heaven. [right margin] Everyone worries that there are three ways of being unfilial. Pile up good deeds and pray to the gods to protect the birth of a fine son. 4 / four [plate number]
Read from the Chinese sheet and checked against the contemporary English translation printed on the facing page of the same scan (which renders 亡八 as 'cuckold' and 叫 as 'Sect'). The English above is FRAME's own literal rendering.
