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- All Subjects: China-Politics and government--1937-1945
- All Subjects: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Atrocities
- All Subjects: Xiba Park
- Creators: Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950
- Creators: Dunaway, Lola
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
DescriptionAn election meeting preceding elections for village leaders. Central Hupeh (Hubei). In this "living education" system, villagers were taught methods of democratic elections, village and town administration.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo)Throughout Central China I found peasants with guns under Military Training. (Bottom photo) Twice a year, high school graduates and younger local officials took competitive examinations to enter Government Officers Training Schools.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
{Top photo}The Mayor of Hwangchuan (Huangchuan) , Honan (He'nan); Major-General Wang Chan-ping, of the 7th Army; and Special Commissioner Mai Ta-fu of Hwangchuan. (Bottom photo) Members of the ancient peasant secret society, the Hwang Shih Hwei, in North Hupeh (Hubei), a big sword society that practices mystic rites but fight the Japanese. They wear yellow insignia.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) These supplies are all the medical supplies in an Army receiving station in Hankow(Hankou) where there are temporary beds for 500 wounded. The supplies are the most meager. Behind the table are young army dressers. (Bottom photo)Inside the Clinic and Hospital of the Convent of Canossian Sisters(Italian Catholic) at Nanyang, Honan (Henan). They care for an air raid victim.
