(Top and Bottom photos) The village headquarters of the ancient "big sword" society, the Hwang Shih Hwei (Huang Shihui), in North Hupeh (Hubei), where I spent a day and night.
(Top and Bottom photos) Shoe manufacturing shop
(Top photo) "Chu-Teh's (Zhu De) Death Fully Confirmed". "Chu Teh's Death Confirmed Again". "Reds lose one of 'Big Three'--Chu Teh Killed!" These headlines screamed across the press of China and the world a dozen times in the past ten years during the wars of Nanking (Nanjing) against the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army. Chu Teh, on the right (Lin Piao on the left, or Lin Biao), the much-killed Red Commander-in-chief, laughs in amusement when he hears of his repeated deaths.
(Bottom photo) Unidentified meeting of Chinese officers around a night light.
