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Confucian Temple

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
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(Top photo) The first hill in the background with a long path leading up the ridge is the tomb of Ch'in Shin Huang Ti (Qin Shi Huang Di, 255 B.C.) whom the Chinese call the great tyrant. He began the building of the Great wall, also great irrigation canals, cities…

(Top photo) The first hill in the background with a long path leading up the ridge is the tomb of Ch'in Shin Huang Ti (Qin Shi Huang Di, 255 B.C.) whom the Chinese call the great tyrant. He began the building of the Great wall, also great irrigation canals, cities and bridges.
(Bottom photo) Ancient bas reliefs on the old Confucian Temple in Sian (Xi'an). (View 1)
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Confucian Temple

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo and Bottom photo) Ancient bas reliefs on the old Confucian Temple in Sian (Xi'an). (View 2 and 3)
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Confucian Temple in Xi'an

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
DescriptionAncient bas reliefs on the old Confucian Temple in Sian (Xi'an). (View 4)
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Buddhist Monk

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
DescriptionHung Shan (Huang Shan), Buddhist monk in charge of Government refugee relief work in Anhwei (Anhui) Province.
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Armed Escorts

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top and Bottom photos) With armed escorts I marched and marched for months.
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Dead Bodies

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1927 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) The official figures of the Shanghai Municipal Council revealed that from 32,000 to 35,000 dead bodies were picked up in the streets of the city each year and buried in pauper's graves. (Bottom photo) Four thousand workers, peasants, soldiers and students were mowed down in the counter-revolution which followed…

(Top photo) The official figures of the Shanghai Municipal Council revealed that from 32,000 to 35,000 dead bodies were picked up in the streets of the city each year and buried in pauper's graves. (Bottom photo) Four thousand workers, peasants, soldiers and students were mowed down in the counter-revolution which followed the Canton Commune, December 11, 1927.
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Mass Meetings

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top and Bottom photos) Two unidentified photographs of mass meetings of troops and civilians.
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Peasants

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) A peasants mass meeting in the enemy rear where I spoke. (Bottom photo) The peasants came out to welcome me.
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Red Army Truck and Mao Tun (Mao Dun)

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) I caught a Red Army truck and disappeared from what is known as civilization. (Bottom photo) Mao Tun (Mao Dun), one of the most noted novelists of modern China.