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- All Subjects: China-Economic conditions--1912-1949
- Creators: Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description{Top and Bottom photos} With a "Big Sword Society", the Hwang Shih Hwei in North Hupeh (Hubei). Its men work with the Chinese armies to fight the enemy. The two overcoats in front are Japanese. Two views
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
DescriptionWounded civilians of the ancient "big sword" society, who fought side by side with the 22nd Group Army on the North Hupeh (Hubei) battlefield. The yellow belt tied about the middle is a symbol of this ancient feudal society. (2 views)
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) Night welcome meeting. New 4th Storm Guerrilla Detachment in Central China. North of Hankow (Hankou). (Bottom photo) The Hwang Hseuh Hwei (Yellow Learning Society), was a peasant self defense society in Central China. They acted as guides and as auxiliaries to the national armies in Central China. In one battle 40 of their men were killed. One member wounded in 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) One of the leaders of the Hwang Hsueh Hwei (a big sword society) and wife in North Hupeh (Hubei). It is a poor peasant organization of Feudal origin. (Bottom photo) Sentry in Ta Hung Shan.
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
(Top photo) A column of Chinese puppet soldiers who fought for the Japanese. Captured by the New Fourth Army Storm Guerrilla Detachment in battle. These men were either conscripted or captured and put in the Japanese puppet forces.
(Bottom photo) The secret anti-Japanese "Ten Man Group" captured the head of a Japanese controlled puppet Government who tried to bribe his captors and the martial court that tried him. He was a greasy old degenerate.