Anti-Christian propaganda in China: alleged maltreatment of children by western missionaries. Colour lithographs, 197-.

[China] : [publisher not identified], [between 1970 and 1979?]

10 prints : lithographs, printed in colour ; sheets 54 x 38 cm

Diguozhuyi chuanjiaoshi he tianzhujiaohui dui zhongguo renmin jinxing qiaozha lesou canku boxue

Wellcome Collection 672577i

1012. A man is tied up (graphic 1), thrown down a well (graphic 2), then stoned to death (graphic 3). The text describes a place that appears to be an anti-revolutionary educational place, but is in fact a place where revolutionaries are killed. It mentions thirteen cases, but introduces one in particular. This describes the story of a man, which takes place in the autumn of 1940. He and three comrades were captured. After they were beaten up in a church, he was meant to drown to death in a well. On the second day, someone heard him and saved him. His captors found out, and he was stoned to death

1013. Foreign conquerors of China. The text warns people about Christians, advising that religious people will cause havoc and threaten rural populations by destroying and stealing land, property, and wealth. It points out a poster which supports these warnings. The third text: Christians are going to take land and rent it to locals at an extortionate price

1014. Roman Catholic conspirators. A secret meeting of Roman Catholic conspirators (graphic 1). A Roman Catholic priest preaches to gullible Chinese men seated around a table on which are Catholic accessories (graphic 2). The text discusses Chiang Kai Shek from the viewpoint of the Communists, claiming that the latter are going to be victorious because Chiang is about to fall (Chiang was a Roman Catholic). The end of 1948 is mentioned: Roman Catholics used the GMD (Guomindang, KMT, Kuomintang) to oppose the government. The GMD fervently [set up a counter-revolutionary movement?] lead by_ Pei Li :Shen mu jun, or Legion of Mary. The third graphic shows pages from the counter-revolutionaries' handbook, outlining their attitudes, goals and methods: a page shows the name and an illustration of the Legion of Mary

1015. Missionaries and imperialists live a life of luxury while the Chinese are poor. Graphic 1: photograph of boxes with handles (cash boxes?). Graphic 2: a Chinese family living in poverty, a print of the Sacred Heart of Christ hanging on the wall. Graphic 3: a bishop and a western imperialist feast with Chinese converts on fine food and wines, below a crucifix hanging on the wall

1017. Missionary education as propaganda. Graphic 1: A missionary teaching a class of Chinese about America (?). Graphic 2: a missionary teaching a class with bottles of wine on the teacher's desk. Graphics 3-4: textbooks in French, on the people and geography of China

1020. Missionary surgery and medicine. Graphic 1: A missionary surgeon and nurse operate on a patient while a colleague reads out instructions from a textbook. Graphic 2: a doctor and nurses prepare medicine (poison?) to inject into a fragile patient. Graphic 3: Nurses wheel away patients (dead?)

1021. Statistics 1940-1949. Graphic 1: a table of statistics 1940-1949. Graphic 2: pages of statistics (?) from a Chinese document

1022. Nuns maltreating children with instruments of torture. Graphic 1: in a garden next to a cathedral, children admitted to the care of the nuns are beaten, starved, poorly clothed and are forced to undertake hard labour. Graphic 2: a nun with a whip forces a child to sit out in the snow until he shivers. Graphic 3: instruments of torture used on the children

1023. Western food leading to starvation of children. Graphic 1: Canned food (mainly evaporated milk) in storage. Graphic 2: decayed bodies of babies starved to death. Graphic 3: starving babies.

1024. Starving infants. Graphic 1: a malnourished child aged two years. Graphic 2: a malnourished infant aged two years and eight months