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- All Subjects: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Drama
- All Subjects: China-Politics and government--1937-1945
- Creators: Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950
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)
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.