和平實現是我們第一步的勝利 (The Realisation of Peace Is Our First Step to Victory), Xi'an poster
A hand-drawn black-ink poster shows three marching soldiers in different caps, one with a star, rifles at the shoulder and mouths open, shouting a single slogan lettered in arcs above them. The slogan calls 'the realisation of peace' 'our first step' to 'victory'. Peace and victory are offered as words, with no terms of the settlement stated.
- Date
- 1936
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Unattributed street poster, Xi'an, after the Xi'an Incident (issuing body not printed on the sheet)
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- China
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Nanjing Nationalist Government
- Leader
- Chiang Kai Shek
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Elections and party politics
- Event
- Xian Incident
- Techniques
- Glittering generalities
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (photograph by Anheizhe), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0 (Commons file page; photograph of an exhibited poster)
Photograph by Anheizhe, 10 May 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Poster: anonymous, Xi'an, c. 1936-37.
Text on the object
和平實現 是我們第一步的勝利！ [the slogan is written right to left in two arcs above the soldiers: the first arc reads 和平實現 from right to left, the second 是我們第一步的勝利！ with the exclamation mark at the far left]
The realisation of peace is our first step to victory!
Read from a 960 px photograph; the slogan matches the wording the Commons description gives. Glare from the display glass and the pin heads cover no characters.
