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1.1A US Army captain holding a flag of China, greeted by cheering civilians in Chongqing upon news of the Japanese surrender, August 1945.
1.2Marines entering Tianjin, welcomed by local crowds giving a thumbs-up, October 1945.
1.5China division parade in the Japanese surrender ceremony in Qingdao, 1945.
1.6China division parade in the Japanese surrender ceremony in Qingdao, 1945.
1.7General DeWitt Peck (standing, far left) and Chinese workmen flee for safety as a mine explodes on railroad tracks in North China where the general’s train had been halted by previous damage, November 1945.
1.8General DeWitt Peck inspects the marines in Tangshan, December 1945.
1.9Navy carrier planes in a “show of force” flight over Beijing with the Forbidden City in the background, September 1945.
1.10Japanese defendants in the Hankou trial, featuring Major General Masataka Kaburagi standing, February 1946, Shanghai.
2.1A European-style mansion in Qingdao, serving as the residence of the US Marine Corps commanding general.
2.2A team of Chinese staff, including cooks, servants, drivers, and butlers, providing services at the Marine Corps commanding general’s quarters in Qingdao.
2.3Marines posing for a photo while preparing a meal in North China.
2.4A marine in a Chinese cap checks out goods from a street vendor.
2.5Local bumboats cluster around a Seventh Fleet cutter in Shanghai for business, September 1945.
2.6United States military leadership, including Admiral Charles M. Cooke Jr., accompanied by Chinese hosts, enjoying a Mongolian barbeque at the Summer Palace in Beijing, 1945.
2.7Two American servicemen on liberty examining raw ducks for their Peking duck dish at a local restaurant.
2.8Cartoon depicting a verbal exchange between a GI and a Chinese man.
3.1Mao Zedong getting into a Jeep with Patrick Hurley, Zhang Zhizhong, and David Dean Barrett, en route to the Chongqing Negotiations, Yan’an, August 1945.
3.4United States Army Air Force officer riding in a rickshaw during a race in Shanghai, December 1945.
3.5American soldiers, along with local rickshaw pullers and pedicab men, gather around the scene of a traffic accident.
4.1American sailors in intimate contact with hostesses at the Diamond Bar in Shanghai, 1949.
4.2American soldiers socializing with Chinese women in postwar Qingdao.
4.5Tsinghua University students protesting “American brutalities” in Beijing, January 1947.
5.3American canned food on window display in a Shanghai store, featuring a Coca-Cola poster on the outside wall, 1947.
5.4Weekly DDT spraying by a C-47 transport over US military accommodations in Shanghai, September 1946.
5.5“How many coins for a pound of American goods?” Shanghai, 1946.
5.6United States soldiers guarding supplies on deck in Qingdao, December 1949.
5.7Marines exit China, giving thumbs-up and “ding hao” farewells in Beijing, 1947.
E.1Illustration of an American military truck rampaging down the street, killing innocent people, part of the “Brutalities of American Troops in China” series, drawn by Ding Hao, 1951.
E.2Illustration of two drunk American sailors assaulting a rickshaw puller outside a nightclub, part of the “Brutalities of American Troops in China” series, drawn by Ding Hao, 1951.
E.3Illustration of the rape of a Chinese woman by an American soldier, with a Nationalist official bowing to the American authority who exonerates him, part of the “Brutalities of American Troops in China” series, drawn by Ding Hao, 1951.
E.4Illustration of a Chinese workman shot by an American guard outside a military compound, part of the “Brutalities of American Troops in China” series, drawn by Ding Hao, 1951.
E.5“Indifference to life,” Sanmao Stands Up by Zhang Leping, 1951.
E.6“Mass denunciation meeting,” Sanmao Stands Up by Zhang Leping, 1951.
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