The ideology of Japan’s natural domination over Asia was brought back into fashion in the early 1930s. China, submitting to the warlords, would be victim of an attack in Manchuria which triggered hostilities that would last until 1945. There would end up being more than 12 million dead in the Chinese camp. Painter and calligrapher Xing Jian draws the portrait of a Chinese peasant household faced with all these events. An impressive work.