Edgar Snow photograph of Hsiao Ching-kuang, 1936

Item — Box: 148, Folder: 7

Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 5 Sub-Series 2 Item 6167

Staff Only

Dates

1936

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to use material from this collection must be obtained from the Reference Services at specialcollections@byu.edu.

Extent

1 photograph : black and white ; 16 x 16 cm

Language of Materials

English

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 3342.

General

Note on verso: "55 and 58. Eight years in Moscow is the record of revolutionary and military training behind Hsiao Ching-kuang, commander of the 29th Red Army and Chairman of the Military Department of the Kansu Soviet Government. First of China's cadets to reach Moscow, where he was sent by Sun Yat-sen, Hsiao studied in Russia from 1920 to 1924, then returned to China, entered and graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy at Canton. He broke with General Chiang Kaishek after Chiang's counter-revolution in 1927, fled from China when Chiang ordered his arrest and execution, but in 1931 secretly returned to China after four years in Red Army Academy in Moscow, entering Soviet Kiangsi and helping organize and lead the Long March to the Northwest. Speaking French, a little English and fluent Russian, this 'bandit-Boshevik' is worth $25,000 to the Generalissimo, according to his list of rewards. Photo by Edgar Snow, 1936."