1911–1915 · Colour woodcut
Marshal Li recovering Nanjing during the Xinhai Revolution of 1911
Unknown Chinese artist
Why it matters
Unlike Western images that turn China into defeated matter, divided territory, or a sleeping creature, this print makes Chinese participants the agents of political rupture. Troops, banners, smoke, and simultaneous action fill the sheet, carrying the story from imperial crisis into contested revolution.
- Publication
- Chinese revolutionary woodcut
- Holding institution
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
- Shelfmark
- FP 2 - JPD, no. 2257 (C size) [P&P]; LC-DIG-jpd-02682
Unknown Chinese artist. Marshal Li recovering Nanjing during the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, between 1911 and 1915. Colour woodcut. Library of Congress, LC-DIG-jpd-02682.
