According to Japan Today/Kyodo News, an “anti-Japanese” painting has gone on display China:

Anti-Japanese painting goes on display in China

A multimillion dollar painting that was inspired by anti-Japanese sentiment in China in the 1930s went on public display Tuesday for the first time in decades. Artist Xu Beihong’s “Put Down Your Whip” depicts an actress performing a street drama — with the same name as the painting — that was shown throughout China during the period of Japan’s wartime aggression.

I found their article, which lacked a simple picture of the painting, to be highly unsatisfying….so I searched for and found the official press release of the auction, which had the following on the painting:

Highlighting the Modern section of the sale is famous realist artist Xu Beihong’s Put Down Your Whip, 1939, which was executed at the highest peak of his artistic powers and hasn’t been seen since its 1954 appearance (pictured here, estimate upon request). The scene for the painting originated in an anti-Japanese street drama with the same title that Xu watched while in Singapore in 1939. The drama was set in the post “918 incident” period during the Second Sino-Japanese War when Japan started her invasion into China while many Chinese were living in exile. Such an explicitly patriotic subject matter is absolutely unique in Xu’s entire production, making this work, without doubt, the most important of his career.

A painting of a young girl acting out an anti-Japanese street drama, but an “Anti-Japanese painting?” Come on, Kyodo News, you can do better than that.