The Three Principles of the People (Chinese poster, ca. 1927)

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Text: The Three Principles of the People.

Year: ca. 1927.

Publisher: Kuomintang.

Artist: NA.

Additional information: The poster depicts a farmer, soldier, and politician representing the people’s welfare, nationalism, and democracy. The ‘Three Principles’ were set out by Sun Yat-sen, father of the Republic of China, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a guiding philosophy of the future Republic. This poster was issued by the Kuomintang’s National Revolutionary Army Headquarters.