China Fights On (1943), Gaydos's soldier and aircraft for United China Relief
Gaydos's poster for United China Relief, about 1943: a Chinese soldier, aircraft overhead, and a Nationalist slogan in red characters. Library of Congress.
Techniques named on the archive record
TransferGlittering generalities
Date
1943
Made by
United China Relief (member agency of the National War Fund); artist signed Gaydos
Medium
Poster
Country
United States
Regime
Roosevelt Administration
Source
Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source
Library of Congress , retrieved September 27, 2026
Source
Public domain in the U.S. (published without copyright notice; LOC: no known restrictions on publication) Gaydos for United China Relief, c. 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-13389.
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China Fights On is a fundraising poster of about 1943 for United China Relief, a member agency of the National War Fund, signed Gaydos. A young Chinese soldier looks up at formations of aircraft, and four red characters at the side carry a Chinese slogan the archive renders as "Resist in war, build the nation."
A soldier looking up
The archive's description: a young Chinese soldier, wearing the Nationalist white-sun badge on his cap, gazes upward at formations of aircraft, and one plane carries the Chinese roundel. Four red characters, read top to bottom, stand at the right. The artist's signature, Gaydos, is at top right.
CHINA FIGHTS ON
UNITED CHINA RELIEF
MEMBER AGENCY of the NATIONAL WAR FUND
抗戰建國
[English translation as given by the archive:] [Chinese, read top to bottom] Resist in war, build the nation
A private relief agency
United China Relief is the issuer, and FRAME types it as an NGO with the purpose "Fundraise." The sheet names it a member agency of the National War Fund. No U.S. government office appears on it. The rights line records it as published without a copyright notice, and the Library of Congress lists no known restrictions. The rights line also dates it "c. 1943," so the year is the catalog's estimate.
A foreign government's slogan on an American appeal
The archive identifies 抗戰建國 as the Nationalist government's own wartime slogan, and points out that it has been carried into an American fundraising poster. The English text does not translate it, so a reader without Chinese met the slogan without its meaning, and a reader with Chinese met a government's political line inside a charity appeal.
The archive tags transfer and glittering generalities. "CHINA FIGHTS ON" asks for admiration and money in one phrase, and the cap badge and roundel tie the soldier to his state's insignia. Giving to a relief agency was voluntary, and the poster makes its case by honoring the soldier. The archive's note says plainly whose slogan the red line is; the English text on the poster does not.
FRAME object record, China Fights On, 1943. United China Relief (member agency of the National War Fund); artist signed Gaydos.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-13389, retrieved by the archive 27 September 2026. Rights as recorded: public domain in the U.S. (published without copyright notice; LOC: no known restrictions on publication).
