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- All Subjects: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Personal narratives, American
- All Subjects: China-Economic conditions--1912-1949
- Creators: Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950
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.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Stevedores loading Yangtze steamers. (Bottom photo)Stretcher bearer soldiers in Kwangsi (Guangxi) Army in the field, North Hupeh (Hubei) Front. (Bottom photo)
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Conference of people's delegates in Communist regions for the first township elections in Central China. Voting was secret (Bottom photo) Beggars in old tubs row boats begging along the Yangtze.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Korean Volunteers with Japanese captives on the right of the photo. (Bottom photo)In the streets of Nanking - the streets are the restaurants of the poor.
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.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) This is a photograph taken by the official photographer with the Communist-led New Fourth Army after a raid made by this detachment on a Japanese air-drome. Note the trophies of guns, bicycles, flags and coats. The Chinese wrote the brief history of this raid in Chinese characters in the film, giving the trophies captured. This photograph was given to me by the New 4th Army.
(Bottom photo) Lt. Col. Evans F. Carlson and I meet in the Eighth Route Army.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Our beloved "Vinegar Joe" Lieutenant General Joseph F. Stillwell of the American Army.
(Bottom photo) Lieutenant Colonel Evans F. Carlson, "Battle Hymn of the Republic."