The anti-Fascist war of the 1930s and 1940s was the first just global conflict in human history. How did the unique Chinese folk art of New Year paintings, known as nianhua, capture the events of that era? A recent woodblock New Year painting exhibition in Beijing featured a special section commemorating the 80th anniversary of victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Let's delve into this historically significant category of Chinese New Year paintings.