--- title: 鴉片戰爭史畫 (Pictorial History of the Opium War), cover url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/wang-regime-opium-war-pictorial-1942/ description: 'Cover of a picture-book history of the Opium War: a cartoon of foreign guards and a Western-dressed trader beside stacked chests under an East India…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![鴉片戰爭史畫 (Pictorial History of the Opium War), cover](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/wang-regime-opium-war-pictorial-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/wang-regime-opium-war-pictorial-1942.jpg) # 鴉片戰爭史畫 (Pictorial History of the Opium War), cover Cover of a picture-book history of the Opium War: a cartoon of foreign guards and a Western-dressed trader beside stacked chests under an East India Company sign, with a skull and opium pipe, a cannon and a helmet in the corners and black-and-white rays around the frame. The tell: the 1839-42 opium trade is used as a stigma symbol (skull, pipe, company sign) and attached to Britain and the United States in the middle of the Pacific war. - **Date:** April 1, 1942 - **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii) - **Made by:** Chinese Nation Anti-British and American Association (中華民族反英美協會), Shanghai - **Region:** [East Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=east-asia) - **Country:** [China](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=china) - **Medium:** [Books and pamphlets](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=book-pamphlet) - **Issuer type:** [Movement](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=movement) - **Regime:** [Reorganized National Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=reorganized-national-government) - **Leader:** [Wang Jingwei](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=wang-jingwei) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize) - **Themes:** [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism), [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military) - **Event:** [Second Sino Japanese War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=second-sino-japanese-war) - **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (scan of 鴉片戰爭史畫, Shanghai, 1942)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E9%B8%A6%E7%89%87%E6%88%98%E4%BA%89%E5%8F%B2%E7%94%BB.pdf), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (1942 anonymous Chinese work; Commons PD-scan / PD-anon-auto-1996) Chinese Nation Anti-British and American Association, 鴉片戰爭史畫 (Shanghai, 1942), cover; scan via Wikimedia Commons. ## Text on the object Original (Chinese (traditional characters, some variant forms)) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` [Title, display lettering across the top, right to left:] 鴉片戰爭史画 [Sign on the building in the drawing, right to left:] [英?]東印度公司 [with a line of small Latin letters below the sign: illegible] [Imprint along the bottom, right to left:] 中華民族反英美協會編印 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` [Title] Pictorial History of the Opium War. [Sign] (British?) East India Company. [Imprint] Compiled and printed by the Chinese Nation Anti-British and American Association. ``` Read from a 960 px scan of a coarse halftone. The title is in heavy display lettering in which some characters (such as 画) appear in simplified or variant forms. The first character of the sign is uncertain. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader. [← Wanted! For Murder — Her Careless Talk Costs Lives](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/wanted-for-murder-careless-talk/) ['Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry' (exclusion order posted in San Francisco) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/exclusion-order-japanese-ancestry-1942/) ## Using the same techniques - [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (0037 · Testimonial, Transfer) - [Gold coin of Kanishka: King of Kings legend, king at the altar, deity Oesho](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gold-dinar-kanishka-king-of-kings-0130/) (0130 · Transfer) - [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Bayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bayeux-tapestry-harold-oath-to-william-1070/) (1070 · Transfer, Card stacking) - [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)