In 1924, Soviet futurist poet and playwright Sergei Tretyakov wrote a poem titled, Roar, China!
[1]: 237 Shortly afterwards, he turned the poem into a play depicting fictional events similar to those which happened later in the 1926 Wanxian Incident, when the British military massacred hundreds of Chinese civilians.
[1]: 238 Nikolai Bukharin described the global spread of the play as part of a historical process in which the throngs of workers would become revolutionaries.
[2]: 467–468 The woodcut depicts the front view of a "taut, muscular, and naked male body, bound and blindfolded".
"[3] According to academic Gao Yunxiang, Hughes' poem was integral to the global circulation of Roar, China!
[4] Academic Selina Lai-Henderson writes that the brief poem, which begins in medias res, may have been intended as a sequel to Hughes' Roar, China!