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title: '蛇鼠同巢之擴大会議 (Snakes and Rats in One Nest: The Enlarged Conference), cartoon from Xinsheng magazine no. 12'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/snake-rat-one-nest-enlarged-conference-1930/
description: A line cartoon shows snakes and rats crowded together in a nest that is labelled 'Enlarged Conference', under the headline 'Snakes and rats in one nest…
section: Collection
---

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[![蛇鼠同巢之擴大会議 (Snakes and Rats in One Nest: The Enlarged Conference), cartoon from Xinsheng magazine no. 12](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/snake-rat-one-nest-enlarged-conference-1930.png)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/snake-rat-one-nest-enlarged-conference-1930.png)

# 蛇鼠同巢之擴大会議 (Snakes and Rats in One Nest: The Enlarged Conference), cartoon from Xinsheng magazine no. 12

A line cartoon shows snakes and rats crowded together in a nest that is labelled 'Enlarged Conference', under the headline 'Snakes and rats in one nest: the Enlarged Conference!'. The animal labels pinned on a named political gathering are the name-calling; the drawing offers no evidence about who took part in the conference or what it decided.

- **Date:** 1930
- **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar)
- **Made by:** Xinsheng (《新聲》, 'New Voice') magazine, China; sponsor not stated on the Commons page
- **Region:** [East Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=east-asia)
- **Country:** [China](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=china)
- **Medium:** [Cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=cartoon)
- **Issuer type:** [Media](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=media)
- **Regime:** [Nanjing Nationalist Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=nanjing-nationalist-government)
- **Leader:** [Chiang Kai Shek](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=chiang-kai-shek)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize)
- **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military)
- **Event:** [Central Plains War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=central-plains-war)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (from the National Library of China)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E8%9B%87%E9%BC%A0%E5%90%8C%E5%B7%A2%E4%B9%8B%E6%89%A9%E5%A4%A7%E4%BC%9A%E8%AE%AE.png), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (published 1930, before 1931; Commons page cites US public domain and Public Domain Mark) Xinsheng magazine no. 12, 1930; via National Library of China and Wikimedia Commons

## Text on the object

Original (Chinese (traditional characters, one variant form)) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[headline, read right to left] 蛇鼠同巢之擴大会議！
[on the nest] 擴大会議
```

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

```
[headline] Snakes and rats in one nest: the Enlarged Conference!
[on the nest] Enlarged Conference
```

Both lines are printed right to left. The character 会 is printed in this variant form (not 會) in both places. No artist's mark or caption is visible in the reproduction.

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