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- All Subjects: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945-Manpower
- All Subjects: China-Politics and governments 1912-1949
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- Creators: Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) The stretcher bearers halted at villages to give the wounded water.(Bottom photo) Civilian stretcher bearers on the Central China front.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Members of the Biyang Signal Corps. (Bottom photo) First democratically elected town officials in Central Hupeh (Hubei) under the protection of the New 4th Army Storm Guerrilla Detachment.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) In the Communist-protected areas of North and Northwest China, and in Central China, mass meetings of the civilian population were held where lectures informed them of the principles and methods of democracy. After weeks of such meetings, and conferences, suffrage rights were given to all men and women over 18 and elections held to elect people's officials. I spoke at this mass meeting and participated in the election campaigns in many regions as a speaker on democracy (Bottom photo) Commanders of the New 4th Army Storm Guerrilla Detachment North of Hankow (Hankou), under training in their training camp
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) A district Self-Defense Corps of civilians, some in uniform, some not, in central China, ten miles from a Japanese garrisoned town. (Bottom photo) A New 4th Army man in ambush waiting for the Japanese.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1945-11-26
DescriptionJ.B. Powell's Chine book review of My Twenty-Five Years in China by John B, Powell - The New Republic
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
DescriptionThe railway workers of the destroyed town of Chumatien (Zhumadian) in Honan (Henan) took the steel rails and spans and beat them into big swords for the armies of liberation.