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- All Subjects: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Drama
- Creators: Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) New 4th Army Storm Guerrilla Detachment advancing to meet an attacking Japanese Column that drove against their headquarters. (Bottom photo) Author and Director Lin Pao-loh, another dramatist was Hsu Ching.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) A wounded Chinese soldier in an Army hospital. The hospital equipment is the most primitive. (Bottom photo) The modem drama was used during the war as the most powerful means of propagating new ideas about China, the world, and about the war. The 'Wang Ching-wei-Kiranuma Pact", an anti-traitor drama produced by the Dramatic society of the Mass Mobilization Committee of Lihwang (Lihuang), Anhwei (Anhui).
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1928 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Coolie laborers, singing "ye-ho, ye-ho" with each step they take. (Bottom photo) The dramatic group of the Mass Mobilization Committee of Lihwang Jinzhaizhen), Anhwei (Anhui), produces the "Wang Ching-wei-Hiranuma Pact" an anti-traitor drama.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Children's Dramatic Corps - a group doing folk dances at a mass meeting for the first people's democratic elections in Central Hupeh (Hubei). New 4th Army Storm Guerrilla Detachment. (Bottom photo) My escort New 4th Army in Central Anhwei (Anhui).
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) New 4th Army dramatic group rehearsing in the open for one of its plays. (Bottom photo) At the special school of the Chinese Communist Party, Northwest China.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) Mr. Shong Yi (Song Yi), former General of the Army) 70 year old Magistrate of Hanchuran (Hanshou) district, Central Hupeh (Hubei); he was removed from office because he was too progressive and refused to conduct an anti-communist campaign.
(Bottom photo) A guerrilla dramatic theatre giving a play to soldiers about Japanese and puppets against whom the Communist guerrillas fought.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
General Li Chung-jen (Li Zongren), Commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone, told me his opinion of the Japanese -- and of the Americans who gave China's enemy a sword.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) I was dreadfully worried about these two little Chinese boys whom I found sliding down the balustrade of the old Confucian Temple in Sian(Xi'an). The balustrade is of stone and the pants of China's children are made open at the back, for use at a moment's notice; and that is why I worried.
(Bottom photo) They grind corn on such mills in China's northwest.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) For sale: the child of famine victims. Price: two sacks of flour; or maybe one; or even a half of one.
(Bottom photo) Commander and vice-commander of the 4th Regiment of the New 4th Army Storm Guerrilla Detachment north of Hankow (Hankou). This Regiment was made up of local peasants, fishermen and artisans. Both commanders were sent by the 8th Route Army from the far northwest. I was in the field with this regiment for one month.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) New Fourth Army Storm Guerrilla Detachment north of Hankow (Hankou) in the enemy rear, held a night meeting to welcome me.
(Bottom photo) Guerrilla soldiers of the New Fourth Army Storm Guerrilla Detachment.