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Battlefields

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)

Created1937 to 1940

Description(Top photo) For years I was on the highways and by-ways of China's battlefields. (I am the figure just behind the foremost figure.) (Bottom photo) Wounded of the New 4th Army hospital - Central Anhwei (Anhui).

Student demonstrating

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)

Created1928 to 1940

Description{Top and Bottom photos} Student demonstrations against the Japanese in the streets of Shanghai. Leaflets covered the streets like snow (2 views}

173rd Division

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)

Created1937 to 1940

Description(Top photo)The 173rd Division manoeuvering in the hills and over the wheat fields.(Bottom photo)We stood behind the machine-gunners.

Industrial Cooperative

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)

Created1937 to 1940

Description(Top photo and Bottom photo) The Industrial Cooperative connected with the Orthopedic Hospital of the Chinese Red Cross Medical Corps in Kweiyang (Guiyang) teach trades to the maimed. (2 views)

Railway Worker

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)

Created1937 to 1940

Description

Chinese armies and railway men tore up their railway to prevent the Japanese from using them. Then the railway men carried away the steel rails and girders and welded them into big swords for soldiers and guerrillas to fight the enemy. This is a Chinese railway worker, member of a…

Chinese armies and railway men tore up their railway to prevent the Japanese from using them. Then the railway men carried away the steel rails and girders and welded them into big swords for soldiers and guerrillas to fight the enemy. This is a Chinese railway worker, member of a group of 60 railway workers who banded together to form a cooperative. They use blacksmith forges and bellows to melt and weld the steel rails. then hammer them into swords for use against the enemy.

Peasants and Civilians

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)

Created1937 to 1940

Description(Top photo) The peasants of Central China gathered in mass meetings where I spoke. (Bottom photo) Civilians studying in short-term courses on methods of mass organization vx. the Japanese. New Fourth Army work near Hankow (Hankou).

Chu-Keh-liang (Zhu Geliang)

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)

Created1937 to 1940

Description(Top photo, Middle photo, and Bottom photo) where the last Han Emperor argued with the famous statesman and strategist, Chu-Keh-liang (Zhu Geliang), to become Prime Minister. (3 views)