On Friday 21 January 1938, Robert Capa set sail from Marseille to Hong Kong with John Fernhout, the cameraman who worked with the film director Joris Ivens, whom they would join at their destination. Ivens explained that he wanted to “get Capa working again” after Gerda Taro’s death, and he therefore invited him to accompany him to China. For this report, which lasted eight months, Capa had a contract with Life, which published four of his colour photographs. The film crew were following the nationalist forces of the Kuomintang, who had formed an alliance with Mao’s communists against the Japanese invasion. In this photograph, next to a portrait of Marx, we see Zhou Enlai, the future prime minister of Communist China between 1949 and 1976. At the time, he was Mao’s representative before Commander Chiang Kai-shek. This vintage copy comes from Capa’s studio on rue Froidevaux, where it was printed with the stamp “Photo Capa”.