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
- Made by
- Xinsheng (《新聲》, 'New Voice') magazine, China; sponsor not stated on the Commons page
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- China
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Nanjing Nationalist Government
- Leader
- Chiang Kai Shek
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, War and the military
- Event
- Central Plains War
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from the National Library of China), 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
[headline, read right to left] 蛇鼠同巢之擴大会議！ [on the nest] 擴大会議
[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.
