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- All Subjects: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945-Personal narratives
- Creators: Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Left: Field commander of the 22nd Group Army on the North Hupeh (Hubei) front, with his Chief-of-staff. {Bottom photo}While the artillery roared, we stood on a plateau and Lt. General Wang Chih-yuan watched the shells burst into a Japanese position seven miles to the east.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1905-04-11
DescriptionIn Manchuria, I stepped back into the Middle Ages. Yet industrialism was entering. (three views)
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.