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title: Chinese Language Poster (The More We Fight, the Stronger We Are; the More the Enemy Fights, the Weaker)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-more-we-fight-the-stronger-anti-aggression-china-1940s/
description: A large helmeted Chinese soldier with a Nationalist sun badge looms over flames in which two small, grimacing Japanese soldiers burn.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Contains a dehumanising caricature of Japanese soldiers as grimacing figures burning in flames, shown as published in wartime China. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Chinese Language Poster, 1939 China poster: A large helmeted Chinese soldier with a Nationalist sun badge looms over flames](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-more-we-fight-the-stronger-anti-aggression-china-1940s.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-more-we-fight-the-stronger-anti-aggression-china-1940s.jpg)

# Chinese Language Poster (The More We Fight, the Stronger We Are; the More the Enemy Fights, the Weaker)

A large helmeted Chinese soldier with a Nationalist sun badge looms over flames in which two small, grimacing Japanese soldiers burn, one wearing a cap with a red disc; headline characters say the more we fight the stronger we grow and the more the enemy fights the weaker. The tell is the animal-like caricature of the Japanese soldiers beside a slogan of rising momentum offered in place of evidence.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
我愈戰愈強
敵愈戰愈弱

國際反侵略運動中國分會製

[Translation: The more we fight, the stronger we become; the more the enemy fights, the weaker. Made by the Chinese Branch of the International Anti-Aggression Movement.]
```

[← Take a Pride in Being Fighting Fit](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/take-a-pride-in-being-fighting-fit-games-1939/) [This Fight Is a Family Affair! \[1\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/this-fight-is-a-family-affair-general-electric-us-1942/)

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