The "March of the Volunteers" is the national anthem of the People's Republic of China. Unlike previous Chinese state anthems, it was written entirely in vernacular Chinese, rather than in Classical C
Nie Er (left) and Tian Han (right), photographed in Shanghai in 1933
The poster for Children of Troubled Times (1935), which used the march as its theme song
The song's first appearance in print, the May or June 1935 Diantong Pictorial
Liu Liangmo was a musician and Chinese Christian leader known for his promotion of the patriotic mass singing movement in the 1930s and promotion in the United States of support for China's resistance
Liu leads a YMCA Patriotic Youth Chorus, Shanghai 1936