China: 'A Chinese woman supporting the war'. Charcoal on paper, Friedrich Schiff, Shanghai, 1937

Illustration by the Austrian artist Friedrich Schiff, who lived in Shanghai during the 1930s and 1940s. His images generally exemplify the 'anything goes' atmosphere and indulgence amidst poverty that characterised Old Shanghai and which would soon be brought to an abrupt end by Japanese invasion (1937) and Communist revolution (1949).

Here, however, he turns his hand to an altogether more austere and painful subject, the plight of Chinese driven from their homes by Japanese aggression in 1937.

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Pictures From History

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OLD SHANGHAI