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- Creators: Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950
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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)
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}
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) The Kwangsi(Guangxi) soldiers (173rd Division) squat about tins of vegetables while eating. Rice is brought in baskets.(Bottom photo)I found the soldiers sitting in the barracks studying. 173rd Division of the 11th Group Army.
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.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1928 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) Commanders of the Storm Guerrilla Detachment of the New 4th Army north of Hankow (Hankou), with whom I lived in a No-man's land north of Hankow. 2nd from left is the commander (civilian) of a regiment of puppet troops who shot their Japanese "advisers" and deserted to the guerrillas with weapons and ammunition. Next: Tao Chu, brilliant 8th Route Army organizer; Li Hsien-nien, a carpenter, commander of the Guerrilla Detachment of 6,000 men. Extreme right: a wealthy salt-mine owner who led the salt miners to join the Detachment, commanded them, and used his wealth to finance the detachment. This man's Tsai, wears a captured Japanese overcoat. (Bottom photo) Wherever the Japanese open morphine-cocaine-heroin shops they hang out the Japanese flag. Photo in the market place of San Ho, North China.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) Captured Japanese and Korean prisoners. Captured by the New Fourth Army Storm Guerilla Detachment in Central China and sent to 5th War Zone Headquarters. Two are Japanese woman, one Japanese soldier standing by them; the others are Korean spies for the Japs. (Bottom photo)Street scene, Kinkiang, Kiangsi (Jiangxi), along the Yangtze.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) The Red cavalry practices maneuvers against air attacks. With the sound of an airplane, they drop to the earth and lie motionless, from the air appearing like piled up stones. (Bottom photo) A valley, Machiachung, in the Ta Hung range in Central Hupeh (Hubei). Scene of a 22-hour battle between a Japanese column and the New 4th Army Storm Guerrilla Detachment.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1928 to 1940
Description(Top photo)A potter makes wine jars for sale. (Bottom photo)Chinese soldiers who today police Hopei (Hebei) Province, north China; soldiers of General Sun Cheh-Yuan.