A Letter from Madame Chiang Kai-shek to Boys & Girls Across the Ocean 1940.  WWII - era soft cover book detailing the horrors of war through the lens of Chinese children. 34 pages. Illustrated throughout. Includes insert photo sheet of Madame Chiang Kai-shek.

Chinese propaganda prepared in the author's name and printed in China, with an address to "Dear Little American Friends" alerting them to the suffering of China's "" (a term which appears to have been coined by Madame Chiang Kai-shek at the time). Many photographs, including crying and smiling Chinese warphans, children playing on homemade stilts and shuttlecocks, in the vegetable gardens, war scenes including the destruction left "After Japanese bombing airplanes leave", warphans on the march, pandas, junks on the Yangtze, children admitted to a "warphanage", children washing up, helping out in the clinic, doing relief work after air raids, making bamboo stools, educating villagers with posters, and children performing in traditional theater. The last 2 images are children saluting an elegantly dressed Madame Chiang on Christmas Day, and receiving gifts.