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
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
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Chinese branch of the International Anti-Aggression Movement (國際反侵略運動中國分會), named in the imprint; artist's seal at lower left
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- China
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Nanjing Nationalist Government
- Leader
- Chiang Kai Shek
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- Second Sino Japanese War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision (Chinese wartime poster, 1939-1945)
Chinese branch of the International Anti-Aggression Movement, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-3.
Text on the object
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.]
