Last days of the Kuomintang, Peking
Photograph
1949 (made)
1949 (made)
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Silver bromide print depicting a man eating alone on a terrace entitled 'Last days of the Kuomintang, Peking'. There is a second man visible through a window just behind the eating figure.
Object details
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| Title | Last days of the Kuomintang, Peking (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Silver bromide print |
| Brief description | Silver bromide print by Henri Cartier-Bresson depicting a man eating on a terrace entitled 'Last days of the Kuomintang, Peking'. China, 1949. |
| Physical description | Silver bromide print depicting a man eating alone on a terrace entitled 'Last days of the Kuomintang, Peking'. There is a second man visible through a window just behind the eating figure. |
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| Bibliographic reference | The Kuomintang began as a political party founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1911. It was the dominant party in China from 1928 until 1949 under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek but they were plagued by bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption. Chiang Kai Shek never fully consolidated control at the local level so rival warlords still wielded provincial power. Busy with civil war and the threat from Japan, the Kuomintang failed to remove such threats from the rural areas. Civil conflict came to a head in China after World War II, and the Red Army pushed the Kuomintang from the mainland. The nationalists fled to Taiwan and set up a government there, which retained China's seat in the United Nations and the Security Council until 1971. |
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| Accession number | PH.783-1978 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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