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Chinese Protect World Peace Signatory 保衛世界和平簽名lapel badge , 1950

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/8/8/4/12

Scope and Contents

A light blue lapel badge with a white dove of peace and the Chinese characters 保衛世界和平簽名紀念 (bao wei shi jie he ping qian ming ji nian = Protect World Peace Signatory Souvenir). For an article about this Chinese campaign in 1950 to collect signatures on a World Peace Council appeal against the atomic bomb, see the article by Elisabeth Forster “Bellicose Peace: China’s Peace Signature Campaign and Discourses about 'Peace' in the Early 1950s” (Modern China, 2020, Vol.46 (3), pp. 250-280).

Dates

  • Creation: 1950

Extent

1 object(s) : Metal.

Dimensions

Diameter 2.4 cm.

Repository Details

Part of the Needham Research Institute Repository

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