Edgar Snow photograph of Muslim Zhonggue ren min jie fang jun soldiers, 1936

Item — Box: 148, Folder: 21

Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 5 Sub-Series 2 Item 6357

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Dates

Creation: 1936

Language of Materials

Materials in English and Chinese.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

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Extent

1 photograph : black and white ; 16 x 16 cm

Additional Description

Other Finding Aids

Item- and file-level inventory available online.http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS2219.xml

General

Former item number 2992.

General

Note on verso: "104. Mohammedan troops of the Chinese Red Army. Several million Mohammedans live in China's Northwest and Chiang Kai-shek hoped to use their religious antagonisms against Chinese to stop the Red Army in their territory. But the Soviets guaranteed them religious freedom and in addition gave them compelte autonomy, driving out the Kuomintang tax-collectors, and 'liquidating' the Chinese usurers among them, as well as giving the peasants arms to fight their own Mohammedan landlords. These are the answers to many of Mohammedan congregation's prayeres, and instead of the fierce 'holy war' against the Chiense Bolsheviks predicted by Nanking's generasl, Moslem and Chinese Reds are uniting on a common platform 'Down with Japnaese Imperialism,' and 'Down with the Tax-Collecting Kuomintang!' This is a Red Mohammedan company in a village near Weichow, Ninghsia Province. Photo, Edgar Snow, 1936."