Tag: Sino
-
01 Work, The Art of War, Eugenio Álvarez Dumont’s Girona’s great day (19 September 1809), with footnotes
At a quarter to four in the afternoon, the bell of the cathedral sounds the alarm and drums roll everywhere with the call to arms. In the streets and squares sounds the call ‘To arms, assault on the breaches!’ The attacked breaches reinforce themselves with utter bravery. Our general arrives accompanied by the lieutenant of…
-
01 Work, The Art of War, Migita Toshihide’s The Fall of Pyongyang, from a series on the Sino-Japanese War, with footnotes
Amid the smoke of battle, Japanese troops encircle panicked Chinese soldiers in this panoramic view of the conquest of the Korean city of Pyongyang during the first Sino-Japanese War (1894–95). This propagandistic image, aimed at a domestic Japanese audience and saturated with racist overtones, draws a contrast between the Japanese participants’ modern, Western-style uniforms and…
Zaidan Gallery 