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- Creators: Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1928 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Chinese factory workers have spiritual faces -- faces filled with suffering. (view 1){bottom photo} Chinese factory workers have spiritual faces -- faces filled with suffering. (view 2)
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1928 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) Dr. Nelson Fu is one of the most able physicians of China. He was trained in the British Missionary Hospital in Tingchow, Fukien Province in the south. He was a devout Christian, and remains a Christian today. In 1930 he joined the Red Army Medical Corps, was director of the Soviet Government Hospital in Shuikin, the Soviet capitol in Kiangsi (Jiangxi), went on the long march of over 8,000 miles from Kiangsi (Jiangxi) to the northwest, and is today director of the Government clinic in the Soviet capitol, Yenan (Yan'an). (Bottom photo) Carpet weavers at work in a Peiping factory.
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 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Where child slaves in a Peking (Beijing) match factory slept.
(Bottom photo) At the front I travelled like this.